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In the Netherlands, work-based learning has become a substantial part of vocational education at all levels. So availability as well as quality of workplace learning places is of crucial importance. The paper gives a short overview of developments with regard to coaching and new learning arrangements in workplace learning in Dutch school-based VET. Different and more intensive interaction patterns between employers and vocational schools as well as between teachers and workplace coaches are developing to improve the connection between learning in school and in the workplace. The second part of the chapter focuses on an innovative project TEAMstages (‘Team traineeships’) where students of different levels in the VET system work together as a team of trainees in a company assignment. This involves intensive guidance by school and company coaches as well as peer coaching.
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Onstenk, J. (2010). Coaching and Collaborative Work-Based Learning in Dutch VET: The ‘TEAMstages’ Project. In: Smith, E., Rauner, F. (eds) Rediscovering Apprenticeship. Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3116-7_14
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