Author: Elly de Bruijn Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319507346 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 311
Book Description
This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals. Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable and competence-based vocational education system. Each wave of reforms, however, has had particular emphases, and directed to achieve particular policy outcomes. Yet, they are more than mere versions of what had or is occurring elsewhere. They are shaped by specific national imperatives, sentiments and localised concerns. Consequently, whilst this book elaborate what constitutes the contemporary provision of vocational education in the Netherlands also addresses a broader concern of how vocational education systems become formed, manifested within nation states, and then are transformed through particular imperatives, institutional arrangement and localised factors. So, the readers of this book whilst learning much about the Dutch vocational education system will also come to identify and engage with a selection of contributions that inform factors that situate, shape and transform vocational education systems. Such a focus seems important given an era when there are concerns to standardise and make uniform educational provisions, often for administrative or political imperatives. As such, this book will be of interest not only to those who are engaged in the field of vocational education, but those with an interest in educational policy, practice and comparative studies.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Publisher: ISBN: Category : Occupational training Languages : en Pages : 228
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This volume presents a report on recent developments and current policy objectives in vocational education and training in the Netherlands. The study is based on a conceptual and analytical framework jointly elaborated by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretariat and representatives of member countries. Organized in two parts, the first part of the report focuses on the following themes: the organizational conditions for shared responsibility and cooperation of government and industry in developing open and effective pathways for education and training; the successful expansion of high-quality vocational-technical education and training at the postcompulsory stage and in higher education; the consolidation of vocational education and training institutions, and the importance of organized industry involvement at the level of sectors and branches of economic activity. Following a general overview of these themes, the second part of the report describes developments in four areas of economic activity that have affected the needs and demands for knowledge and skills: tourism, the printing industry, installation technology, and computer numerical control (CNC) machining and flexible production automation. These sectoral case studies reveal that shifts in vocational education and training run parallel to changes in industry structures. The national and sectoral qualification structure presently in elaboration will reinforce the integration of school- and firm-based pathways, and thereby better harmonize training with industry needs. Contains 61 references. (KC)
Author: G. M. G. Spronk Publisher: Berlin : CEDEFOP, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training ISBN: Category : Occupational training Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
This annotated bibliography about vocational training in the Netherlands is organized in 10 sections that cover the following topics: (1) literature on the vocational training system; (2) literature regarding developments and ideas of the government regarding vocational training; (3) legislative literature; (4) the upper secondary education; (5) transition from school to work; (6) education and training for unemployed youth/youth unemployment; (7) vocational training for adults; (8) vocational training for special groups (persons with disabilities, migrants, women); (9) technological developments; and (10) training for teachers vocational training. Citations contain title, author, publication information, and an abstract. (KC)
Author: Felix Rauner Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402083475 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 1103
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Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) research has become a recognized and well-defined area of interdisciplinary research. This is the first handbook of its kind that specifically concentrates on research and research methods in TVET. The book’s sections focus on particular aspects of the field, starting with a presentation of the genesis of TVET research. They further feature research in relation to policy, planning and practice. Various areas of TVET research are covered, including on the vocational disciplines and on TVET systems. Case studies illustrate different approaches to TVET research, and the final section of the book presents research methods, including interview and observation methods, as well as of experimentation and development. This handbook provides a comprehensive coverage of TVET research in an international context, and, with special focus on research and research methods, it is a cutting-edge resource and reference.
Author: Ly Thi Tran Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319478591 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries. It considers the impact of internationalization and student mobility on VET at the sectoral, institutional and individual levels as the sector emerges as a key tool for social and structural change in developing nations and as a flexible and entrepreneurial means of growth in developed nations. The book explores not only the effects of the neo-liberal market principle underpinning VET practices and reforms, but importantly considers internationalization as a powerful force for change in vocational education and training. As the first volume in the world that examines internationalization practices in VET, the book provides VET and international education policymakers, practitioners, researchers and educators with both conceptual knowledge and practical insights into the implementation of internationalization in VET.
Author: David Guile Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119098599 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 602
Book Description
A collection of the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training written by international experts The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With contributions from a panel of leading international scholars, the Handbook contains 27 authoritative essays from a wide range of disciplines. The contributors present an integrated analysis of the complex and dynamic field of VET. Drawing on the most recent research, thinking, and practice in the field, the book explores the key debates about the role of VET in the education and training systems of various nations. The Handbook reveals how expertise is developed in an age of considerable transformation in work processes, work organization, and occupational identities. The authors also examine many of the challenges of vocational education and training such as the impact of digital technologies on employment, the demand for (re)training in the context of extended working lives, the emergence of learning regions and skill ecosystems, and the professional development of vocational teachers and trainers. This important text: Offers an original view of VET’s role in both the initial and continuing development of expertise Examines the theories and concepts that underpin international perspectives and explores the differences about the purposes of VET Presents various models of learning used in VET, including apprenticeship, and their relationship with general education Explores how VET is shaped in different ways by the political economy of different countries Reviews how developments in digital technologies are changing VET practice Discusses the challenges for universities offering higher vocational education programs Draws on both recent research as well as historical accounts Written for students, researchers, and scholars in the fields of educational studies, human resource development, social policy, political economy, labor market economics, industrial relations, sociology, The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training offers an international perspective on the topic of VET.
Author: Stephen Billett Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 940071954X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single text that elaborates the scope and diversity of the sector, its key objectives (i.e. vocations and occupations), its formation and development as an education sector, and the scope of its purposes and considerations in the curriculum. The volume achieves these objectives by discussing and defining the concept of vocational education as being that form of education that seeks to advise individuals about, prepare them for, and further develop their capacities to perform the kinds of occupations that societies require and individuals need to participate in—and through which they often come to define themselves. In particular, it discusses the distinctions between occupations as a largely social fact and vocations as being a socially shaped outcome assented to by individuals. As people identify closely with the kinds of occupations they engage in, the standing of, and the effectiveness of vocational education is central to individuals’ well-being, competence and progress. Ultimately, this book argues that the provision of vocational education needs to realise important personal and social goals.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264436650 Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
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Teachers and in-company trainers are central to vocational education and training (VET), as they support the school-to-work transitions of learners from diverse backgrounds. VET teachers develop learners’ skills in school-based settings, while in-company trainers support learners during their time in work-based learning.
Author: Michael J. Marquardt Publisher: EOLSS Publications ISBN: 1848260563 Category : Personnel management Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Human Resources and their Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Human Resources Policy, Development and Management in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Human Resources and their Development provides the essential aspects and a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Human Resources and their Development; Major Issues in Human Resource Development; Elements of Planning Strategies for Human Resource Development; Human Life Systems, Diversity and Human Development; Human Development and Causes of Global Change; Consequences of Global Change for Human Resource Development. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.
Author: Christine Ante Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319415700 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book explores the impact on EU member states of intensified European cooperation in the field of vocational education and training. By employing the Varieties of Capitalism approach as an analytical framework, it seeks to bridge diverging views from an innovative standpoint: While many experts argue that EU policies liberalize national training systems in spite of being ‘soft law’, Varieties of Capitalism argues that these polices do not produce a convergence of national institutions. The book maintains that European instruments such as the European Qualifications Framework and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training are indeed biased towards liberal training regimes. On the basis of case studies on Germany, the Netherlands and England, it shows that the initiatives were implemented in line with national training systems. Thus, European soft law does not lead to a convergence of training regimes – or, as the book posits, of welfare states in general.
Author: Elly de Bruijn
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Author: G. M. G. Spronk
Author: Felix Rauner
Author: Ly Thi Tran
Author: David Guile
Author: Stephen Billett
Author: OECD
Author: Michael J. Marquardt
Author: Christine Ante