Vocational Education and Training in Times of Economic Crisis: Lessons from Around the World

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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