Shaping Flexibility in Vocational Education and Training: Institutional, Curricular and Professional Conditions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402011458 ISBN 13: 9781402011450

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

Flexibility seems to be the core concept of economic and educational change in our time. The promise of solutions to many problems at the individual, institutional, and national level evokes as much controversy as acclaim. This might be related to the different perspectives of actors and researchers involved in problem-solving in Vocational Education and Training (VET), where, on the one hand, solutions should be sought in key qualifications and transferability, in changing teaching and learning processes, while, on the other, political, institutional, organisational, and professional conditions are seen as the key interventions to build a responsive workforce on the basis of a re-engineered VET system. Consequently, flexibility in connection with vocational education and training and the labour market has several divergent connotations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1402011458
• ISBN 13: 9781402011450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Nijhof W.J., Heikkinen Anja, Nieuwenhuis Loek F.M.