5 Perspectives

According to Kasli & Ilban (2013), in order to solve the problems that affect student internships and their learning process, it is important to identifying them. Furthermore, according to Henry et al., (2001), identifying problems that may occur during the internship will help in better preparation of the students that will know what to expect and how to deal with them during the internship, and this was investigated in this thesis. Still, what questions to ask students? Is it ethical to ask about their health problems, disabilities that will negatively influence their stay? Kasli & Ilban (2013) believe that negative experience during the internship can result in changing of student’s profession. Nowadays, for many Danish VET the main goal is to minimize the number of students that drop out or change the education. At JU, around 10% of students quit the education at the GF2 level, and half of them done that because of starting the new one. Kasli & Ilban (2013) found that in many cases the companies have negative influence on student’s internship due to lack of intern understanding. Furthermore, they negatively affected their attitudes. According to Kolb (1984), the relation with co-workers and friends can influence learning abilities. This is very important when matching student/ host and when sending 2 and 2 students to the same place. Summing up, this thesis shows that there are different didactic tools to be used to evaluate on students internship. The thesis presents the current internship process practices at JU, what are the weak points, and what should be done better. The students faced different challenges during the internship process and they must be minimized. The didactics models that were used to evaluate on students internship process show that there is a gap between the different stakeholders, which affects the student’s satisfaction of improvement of the skills that were described in learning unit. In order to mitigate the problem, further steps must be taken in order to bridge the gap.

The perspectives for further research may involve the modification and application of the figure 1 made in this project for the internship process abroad. In Denmark there should be made a group of international coordinators that meet regularly, exchange their experiences and learn from each other. In order to ensure an optimal student-host match, all stakeholders must be involved in the process. There is a need for more hosts abroad; in order to find the right host that will match to our students, the host must be approved by JU or other schools. The students that went through the internship process should be used as ambassadors to promote the improvement of the skills abroad.