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Meeting in the middle: TVET programs' education-employment linkage in developing contexts
Caves, Katherine; Ghisletta, Andrea; Renold, Ursula; … - 2019
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs are most successful at supporting youth labor markets when they combine education and employment. Education-employment linkage theory describes this combination in terms of power-sharing between actors from the education system and...
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Students' experiences with different learning pathways to higher professional bachelor programmes
Biemans, Harm; Mariën, Hans; Fleur, Erik; Beliaeva, Tanya - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20
) programmes have been created: the regular VET route, the general secondary education route, and continuing learning pathways … pathways to HBO. 62 former GL students, 127 former middle-management VET (or MBO) students, and 81 former regular general …
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Upper secondary education for youth at risk: A comparative analysis of education and training programmes in Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
Schmid, Evi - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 7 (2020) 1, pp. 21-44
Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in reducing early leaving from education and training … educational traditions and the position of VET at upper secondary level. Regarding the integration of disadvantaged youth into … education and work, the differences concerning access to upper secondary education, the importance of VET at upper secondary …
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Understanding informal jewellery apprenticeship in Ghana: Nature, processes and challanges
Baidoo, Mohammed Kwaku; Tachie-Menson, Akosua; Arthur, … - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 7 (2020) 1, pp. 45-66
Context: The processes of acquiring education in jewellery in Ghana has been dominated by the informal apprenticeship system and it forms the backbone of the workforce of the jewellery industry in Ghana. However, the patronage of informal jewellery apprenticeship in Ghana in recent times has...
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Building a skilled workforce: Public discourses on vocational education in Thailand
Chalapati, Nakarin; Chalapati, Supaporn - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 7 (2020) 1, pp. 67-90
Context: Thailand is now facing skilled labour shortages, which has prevented the country from achieving significant economic progress. This paper examines Thailand's vocational education policy discourses from 1992 to 2014 and how such policies were discussed to build the country's skilled...
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Umbrella review: Methodological review of reviews published in peer-reviewed journals with a substantial focus on vocational education and training research
Gessler, Michael; Siemer, Christine - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 7 (2020) 1, pp. 91-125
Purpose: The growing public interest in vocational education and training (VET), most recently since the economic … verifiable or falsifiable. So far, however, the review methods used in VET research have not been investigated. Our purpose is to … review the review procedures and methods used in published reviews of VET research to identify their current methodological …
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Visualising the intended practical doing: Future-oriented movements in Swedish vocational school workshop settings
Asplund, Stig-Börje; Kilbrink, Nina; Asghari, Hamid - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 8 (2021) 2, pp. 160-185
Context: This article focus on teaching and learning processes in a vocational classroom in Swedish vocational education. There are few studies within the field of vocational education that have a focus on how vocational learning is done in interaction in the vocational classroom/workshop, and...
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Skills and employment under automation: Active adaptation at the local level
Ure, Odd Bjørn; Skauge, Tom - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 6 (2019) 3, pp. 203-223
Context: The article contributes to a discussion of how patterns of employment and qualifications are modified by the ongoing industrial transformation, called Industry 4.0. Although this transformation is said to be a global phenomenon, scholars increasingly discuss the national differences in...
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Job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of CTE health science teachers
Park, Kathleen A.; Johnson, Karen R. - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 6 (2019) 3, pp. 224-242
Context: The healthcare profession is one of the largest growing occupations in the United States. Yet, there is a shortage of healthcare professionals and the situation is further compounded by insufficient instructors to prepare individuals to provide safe and quality care. A number of...
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Identifying teachers' competencies in Finnish vocational education
Tapani, Annukka; Salonen, Arto O. - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 6 (2019) 3, pp. 243-260
recent pieces of research on teachers' competencies in the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Finland. We …
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