Keynote title: Well-being in a contextual perspective? Dilemmas, pitfalls, and possibilities in sustaining well-being for VET students.
Well-being is strongly related to sustainable social relations and belonging. Exactly social relations and group belonging has been emphasized to play an important role for young people to continue and finalize youth education, including vocational education and training. Furthering social relations and group belongings is, however, not only up to individuals or students, but also rely on how youth educations are organized and the policies surrounding it.
Students have different conditions for continuing and finalizing VET, including motivation, flair for the chosen vocation, whether they are familiar with VET education from home or not, etc. The way many vocational education and training programs are organized as dual systems constructs transitions that can challenge the possibility to build sustainable social relations and group belongings among VET students.
Building social relations and furthering belonging therefore depends on a complexity of contextual factors. Based on Vibeke A. Frank’s previous and present research this keynote will focus on dilemmas, pitfalls, and possibilities for VET students to sustain well-being in their everyday life while continuing and finalizing VET. The presentation focusses on diversity of VET students, including VET students in marginalized positions.
Overall, the presentation focusses on how well-being is a relational phenomenon and how contextual factors influence VET students’ well-being in terms of social relations and belonging.
Links:
UC-Viden: https://www.ucviden.dk/en/persons/vibeke-asmussen-frank
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibeke-asmussen-frank-a1425568/
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2058-5996