2018 • In Nägele, Christof; Stalder, Barbara E. (Eds.) Trends in Vocational Education and Training Research. Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Re- search (ECER), Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET)
[en] This international comparative analysis of higher level vocational education examines developments across five countries: England, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the USA. The authors consider how current developments address two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means of achieving economic competitiveness and raising productivity; and the promise of increasing access for students hitherto excluded from higher education. We address these questions in relation to specific country contexts, in order to highlight similarities and differences in developments within the European arena and in a wider global context. We locate our analyses in an understanding of the different political and socio-economic conditions within different countries, which render particular reforms and innovations both possible and realizable in one context, but almost unthinkable in another. We argue for the need to recognize and embrace diversity in provision, while using comparison across countries as a means of challenging taken-for-granted assumptions of how things are and what is possible within individual country contexts. Such comparative analysis is a prerequisite for answering questions of policy transfer and learning from others.
Research center :
- Education, Culture, Cognition & Society (ECCS) > Institute of Education & Society (InES)
Disciplines :
Education & instruction Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Bathmaker, Ann-Marie; University of Birmingham
Graf, Lukas; Hertie School of Governance
Orr, Kevin; University of Huddersfield
Powell, Justin J W ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
Webb, Sue; Monash University
Wheelehan, Leesa; University of Toronto
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Higher level vocational education: The route to high skills and productivity as well as greater equity? An international comparative analysis
Publication date :
2018
Event name :
European Educational Research Association
Event organizer :
VETNET
Event place :
Bozen, Italy
Event date :
3.9.2018—7.9.2018
By request :
Yes
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Trends in Vocational Education and Training Research. Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Re- search (ECER), Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET)