La formación en la empresa y la formación de trabajadores a través de las asociaciones empresariales en españa

Abstract

This doctoral thesis aims to answer a number of specific problems and questions framed in the field of training in enterprises and workers training through employers¿ associations in Spain. The thesis aims to provide a conceptualization of workers training, training throughout life, lifelong learning, and training for employment (VET). It also tries to analyse whether it is possible to develop an educational process (from all perspectives, being personal or professional) within the field of companies, of VET programmes, and workers training programmes or, on the contrary, we only can aspire to processes of instrumental education or training. At the same time, it tries to know what the current status of VET in Spain is and what the perception of employers¿ associations about it is. Another key aspect is focused on finding out what is the role that employers¿ associations play and why they are interested in this type of activities. Another topic approached in the research is: methodologies used in training through employers¿ associations and what the perception about it of themselves and workers/students is, with a special focus on the online training methodology or e-learning. Finally, I show how the VET programmes work. VET provides training to thousands of workers in Spain each year. The study consists of three well distinguished parts. The first is focused on the methodological aspects of the research, based on the Grounded Theory of Glasser and Strauss, as well as on its objectives; the second is a theoretical and epistemological approach to the study¿s aimed fields: adult education, workers training, lifelong learning, workers training programmes, and employers¿ associations; the third part is focused on the field work, which is divided in two parts: a quantitative study of a VET programme in a business association from an statistical point of view, and a qualitative study based on interviews to key characters in this field.