Stockholm university

PhD defence: Sofia Antera

Thesis defence

Date: Friday 5 May 2023

Time: 13.00 – 16.00

Location: Room 2403, Frescativägen 54 and Zoom Meeting ID: 629 5071 1340

Sofia Antera at the Department of Education will defend her PhD thesis: Vocational teachers’ professional competence at the intersection of two regimes of competence. The case of Sweden.

 

Abstract

This thesis explores vocational teachers’ competence through their own and the school principals’ perceptions. It is compiled by three studies, a conceptual method analysis of professional competence concept, a questionnaire study and an interview study. Findings, analysed through Communities of Practice and Ellström´s competence model, show that teaching competence has a high use value due to its relevance with the vocational teachers’ work. However, it has low exchange value as it is not formally required for teachers’ employment. Conversely, occupational competence has high exchange value, as it is required for recruitment.

Link to dissertation, full text

 

 

 

Follow the defense via Zoom

Zoom Meeting: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62950711340

 

Sofia Antera is a PhD student at the Department of Education.

Sofia Antera