The Scholarship of Craftsmanship

The perspectives of trades people becoming vocational educators - southern hub funded project 

In her case study, project leader Selena Chan from Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, will investigate the perspectives beginning tertiary teachers bring with them via their vocational identity as trades people or professionals into their new roles. The study explores the concepts of teaching and craftsmanship which underpin workplace and trades practice. It compares those with establishes academic scholarship of teaching models to synthesise a conception of the craftsmanship of teaching appropriate to teaching and learning within vocational and applied education.