{
  "title": "Train-the-trainer programme in the canton of Fribourg: how can comparing cases from different professions reveal a shared principle?",
  "url": "https://shr.swiss/blog/formation-de-formateurs-fribourg-comparer-cas-metiers-principe-commun-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-06-25",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://shr.swiss",
    "address": "184 route de Saint-Julien, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A familiar example makes training more accessible, but can leave learning tied to a single context. Guided comparison offers a way to make a principle recognisable beyond the vocabulary of one profession.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Train the Trainer",
  "place": {
    "name": "Fribourg",
    "region": "Fribourg",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes: comparison rather than juxtaposition",
      "point": "Dedre Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein and Leigh Thompson (2003, Journal of Educational Psychology) show, in negotiation-learning experiments, that explicitly comparing cases can support transfer of their shared structure to a new situation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: building a schema beyond surface details",
      "point": "Mary L."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion: all cases are interchangeable",
      "point": "It would be excessive to conclude that an agri-food case can replace an industrial or university situation without qualification."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits: translation alone does not establish an analogy",
      "point": "These studies do not address bilingual vocational training in the canton of Fribourg and cannot predict a numerical effect there."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Fribourg",
      "point": "In a hypothetical workshop in Fribourg, a trainer could offer three fictional cases: an agri-food production instruction, a change to an industrial machine setting and a protocol handover in a university laboratory, each requiring responsibility to be clarified before action."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Thompson",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Journal of Educational Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Holyoak",
      "year": "1983",
      "source": "Cognitive Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 435,
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