Shaping Flexibility in Vocational Education and Training

Institutional, Curricular and Professional Conditions
2003. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4020-1145-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 595 g

In this volume, the authors treat flexibility as a system characteristic of Vocational Education and Training (VET), in analyzing key conditions for flexibility:-economic context of VET and the organizational and institutional design of VET; -educational tools and resources for the flexibility of delivery and pathways at national level;  -VET professionals as promoters of flexibility, mobility, and transferability.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nijhof, W J

Heikkinen, Anja

Nieuwenhuis, Loek F M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Berufsbildende Schulen, Wirtschaftsschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wirtschaftspädagogik, Berufspädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Shaping conditions for a flexible VET.- Institutional And Organisational Aspects Of Flexibility.- Vocational education and training in transition: From Fordism to a learning economy.- Learning organisations for VET.- Perspectives on institutional and organisational flexibility in VET.- Educational Tools and Resources for Flexibility.- Institutional responses to a flexible unified system.- Demand and supply of qualifications: systems’ change towards flexibility.- Developments in vocational education in Ireland.- From a unified to a flexible vocational system: the Hungarian transition case.- Design and effects of a flexible VET system: a case study in Dutch agricultural education.- Valuing learning outcomes acquired in non-formal settings.- Resources for flexibility: critical comments.- Professional Conditions.- Professionalism as a path for the reform of VET systems.- Transforming VET policies and professionalism: a view from Finland.- HRD as a professional career? Perspectives from Finland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.- Challenges of supporting learning of newly qualified professionals in health care.- The practices of a new VET profession.