Type of Project: Funded project Model project
Good educational practice: Recommendations for the methodical design of vocational training in workshops for people with disabilities

The aim of the GuBiP research project is to develop recommendations for the practical design of vocational training processes in workshops for people with disabilities (WfbM). These include a repertoire of vocational training methods geared to the practice of the workshops, which is structured by a didactic framework model, processed and systematised in terms of special needs education. Workshops in Germany employ around 320,000 adults with disabilities, of whom 30,000 work in vocational education and training, 270,000 in work and vocational support and 20,000 in support services. In addition, there are about 70,000 professionals who professionally design and accompany these areas. A key finding of the predecessor project EVABI (Kranert, Stein & Riedl 2021) was that the harmonised education framework plans (hBRP) provide professionals with a central and nationally standardised instrument for planning vocational education and training that is geared to a heterogeneous target group and can ensure transparent and nationally coordinated education and training. At the same time, however, a central need for action and development was identified: The support of professionals in the "translation" of educational content into concrete teaching-learning situations, i.e. in the didactic-methodical design in educational practice. The GuBiP project addresses precisely this desideratum. In a constant exchange between theory and practice, existing needs and possible starting points are recorded step by step and along milestones, potential for further development is identified, approaches to action are practically tested in model workshops and their implementation is accompanied. Various survey instruments are used in the sense of a mixed-method design and formative evaluation, which, in addition to the state of research, include in particular voices from practice in qualitative and quantitative observation. Project goals The GuBiP research project addresses three central goals: - Gaining a systematic overview of methodological concepts for vocational education and training (incl. impulses outside the workshops) and identifying further development potential for workshops - Development of a scientifically supported didactic framework model for vocational education processes in workshops - Deriving recommendations for action and implementation strategies for the didactic-methodical design of vocational education and training in workshops on the basis of the hBRP, including an illustration through examples of implementation. At the end of the two-year project period, the following project results will be available - A handout on the methodological-didactic design of vocational training processes in workshops - this contains recommendations for action in the form of a didactic framework model, a collection of methods for workshop practice and an implementation strategy for implementation in the workshops. - supplementary examples of implementation of methodological approaches in vocational education and training in workshops (good practice) - a scientific final report