Work-based learning system: new skills in the occupational health and safety

Abstract

Through the dual system work-based learning (WBL), students carry out part of their formative curriculum in working contexts. In this way, the traditional learning model linked to the individual disciplines is renovating into a new model that includes, at the same time, informal and non-formal learning competences too. It can also be highlighted that in the WBL, technology is progressively more used to support innovative teaching that allows young people to acquire new skills also to meet the needs of the changing labor market. Obviously, the training experience in a working context requires a particular attention to the protection of the scholar’s health and safety too, so that the acquisition of specific ability has to be assured for acting in aware and responsible way and at the same time the suitability of the external learning places to the educational circle must to be guaranteed.