Vocational Education and Training in Times of Economic Crisis: Lessons from Around the World (Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 24)

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET). Revealing how youth in transition is affected by economic crises, it provides essential insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the various systems and prospects of VET in contexts ranging from North America to Europe, (e.g. Spain, Germany or the UK) to Asia (such as China, Thailand and India). Though each country examined in this volume is affected by the economic crisis in a different way, the effects are especially apparent for the young generation. In many countries the youth unemployment rate is still very high and the job perspectives for young people are often limited at best. The contributions in this volume demonstrate that VET alone cannot solve these problems, but can be used to support a smooth transition from school to work. If the quality of VET is high and the status and job expectations are good, VET can help to fill the skills gap, especially at the intermediate skill level. Furthermore, VET can also offer a realistic alternative to the university track for young people in many countries. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF) and Support for Alternative Transition Routes for Young People....Pages 3-23 Finding the Finishing Line – Career Support for Experimentation: Transitions and the Role of Lifelong Learning....Pages 25-40 Challenges to the Implementation of Dual Apprenticenships in OECD Countries: A Literature Review....Pages 41-57 Vocational Education and Training (VET) and the Transition of Young Women and Men to the Labour Market in Middle-Income Countries: A Comparative Analysis Based on International Labour Organization (ILO) Surveys in Jamaica, Jordan, Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zambia....Pages 59-81 Learning to Innovate by Connecting Interprofessional Judgement – Exploring the Digitised Creative Sector in the Gulf....Pages 83-105 Induction of Job Entrants with Midlevel Qualifications: A Comparison of Health Care (HC) and Car Service (CS) in Selected European Countries and South Korea....Pages 107-125 Apprenticeship Policies Coping with the Crisis: A Comparison of Austria with Germany and Switzerland....Pages 127-148 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Initiatives in Skill Upgrading: The Case of Centres of Excellence (COE) in Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in Karnataka, India....Pages 151-170 Theories for Practice: A Participatory Action Research Approach for the Establishment of the Regional Association for Vocational Teacher Education in Asia (RAVTE)....Pages 171-187 Transferable Skills in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Vocational Teacher Education (VTE): A Case Study of Thailand....Pages 189-199 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Bangladesh – Systems, Curricula, and Transition Pathways....Pages 201-227 Front Matter....Pages 229-229 KOMET-Based Professional Competence Assessments for Vocational Education and Training (VET) Teachers in China....Pages 231-253 What Does It Mean to Be Vocational Teachers in China – Results from a Survey Among Chinese Vocational Teachers....Pages 255-268 Youth Employment and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in China....Pages 269-283 On the Improvement of School-Enterprise Cooperation (SEC) in China....Pages 285-302 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 Why Firms Do and Don’t Offer Apprenticeships....Pages 305-320 A Qualitative Analysis of High School Level Vocational Education in the United States – Three Decades of Positive Change....Pages 321-337 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 Quality Doubts as a Driver for Vocational Education and Training (VET) Reforms – Switzerland’s Way to a Highly Regarded Apprenticeship System....Pages 341-354 Addressing Mismatch in Spain: A Concern and Proposal Beyond the Economic Sphere....Pages 355-368 The Training Module Concept: A Way Towards Quality Improvement and Inclusion in German Vocational Education and Training (VET)?....Pages 369-387 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 Business and Administration Occupations – Findings About Differences and Similarities in Their Requirements and Mentalities....Pages 389-405 Reproduction of Social Inequalities in the Case of Economic Education in Vocational Education and Training (VET) Schools – Theoretical Considerations on the Concept of Reflexive Pedagogy....Pages 407-422 Front Matter....Pages 423-423 Vocational Knowledge – Regions and Recontextualisation Capability....Pages 425-438 International Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Transfer Project – Theoretical-Practical Experiences of Workplace Training with the Workforce in the Egyptian Construction Industry....Pages 439-459 From Craftsmanship and Novices to 3D Printing and an Ageing Workforce – Is Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research Keeping Pace with Change as Well as Continuity in Work?....Pages 461-472 Policy Borrowing in Vocational Education and Training (VET) – VET System Typologies and the “6 P Strategy” for Transfer Analysis....Pages 473-490