Upper Secondary Vocational Education as an Educational Path Into the Security Industry
Upper Secondary Vocational Education as an Educational Path Into the Security Industry

Summary/Abstract: Training to become a security guard (pracownik ochrony fizycznej) is now available to young people in Sweden as part of their upper secondary vocational education. this means a training package (tP) by the security industry moving into a school system. The research questions are, firstly how the TP is re-fitted in terms of curriculum, secondly, how the students interact with learning opportunities the tP offers. Focus group interviews and classroom observations were used as a method with two small groups of students. from the students’ perspective, the tP has fused seamlessly with their regular education, enriching each other. Through the TP the students also experienced a syllabus design with a strong alignment between learning goals, activities and an assessment.

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