This article focuses on vocational learning in technical vocational education in upper secondary school, with a special focus on the object of learning to weld. A concrete teaching situation where the learning object to weld is the focus of the interaction between a vocational teacher and an upper secondary student was documented by a video camera and then analysed from two different perspectives: a conversation analytical and a variation theory perspective. The combination of the two

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... es allows studying learning that deals with issues regarding both form and content, which may increase our understanding of vocational learning in technical vocational education in upper secondary school.