Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This study investigates the pedagogy of tacit-to-explicit processes and how these pedagogies influence the workmanship of risk and certainty. Can uncertainty arise in traditional design, often shrugged as an imitative practice? If traditional design must be understood as an impulse to do a job well …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Guided by the capability approach, this study uses primarily quantitative methods to investigate at scale the capabilities that are valued by students of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in China. It identifies the capabilities valued by 892 vocational students in a mix of rura…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
In this study, we conduct a systematic literature review of records across disciplines dealing with VET system governance. The literature draws on a broad array of disciplines including political science, sociology, economics, development economics, and education policy. Despite this, we find a gene…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Governments have been exploring ways to obtain better value from their procurement expenditures by attaching additional employment conditions to their contract tender documents. These require successful bidders to provide training and jobs for members of local communities or equity groups. In 2018, …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Young people today often complete several internships before starting their full-time careers. Although there are various perspectives on internships based on different academic traditions, the specific topic of motivation in internships from a sociocultural perspective is rarely examined. This stud…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
An innovative workforce is a key driver of sustained economic growth in any country. Recent press regarding the spiralling costs of higher education, coupled with increased levels of student debt, has both called into question the viability of such traditional paths and created an imperative for alt…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Over the past few decades, China’s attempts to address its persistent skills shortage have led to a growing prioritisation of reforms and upgrades to the country’s VET sector, with the aim of producing the ‘craftsmen of the nation’. This paper presents new findings on young people’s experiences of t…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This article employs a capability approach and a sustainable wellbeing theory to present a holistic analysis of wellbeing dimensions from students’ points of view within Finnish vocational education and training (VET). Drawing from feminist ethnographic research, the article places everyday life at …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Discussions of student writing in (mainly traditional) universities have highlighted tensions between hegemonic expectations and more participatory writing practices which could better serve an increasingly diverse student population. Our paper extends this discussion in an investigation of writing …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This paper examines how working-class vocational students in Turkey perceive their stigmatisation and relative failure within the education system. The findings reveal that these students experience deep disorientation, anxiety, and humiliation. While they exhibit partial awareness of structural con…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
In recent decades, reforms of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems have mostly focused on the needs of employers to produce graduates ready for the labour market. The academic literature has extensively criticised the narrow focus on the performance of work tasks at the exp…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Since Ewart Keep published his important article on England’s VET policy failures in 2006 in JVET much has happened, while important aspects of Keep’s critique still hold. In his article entitled “State Control of the English Education and Training System: Playing with the Biggest Train Set in the W…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The Academic Professional Apprenticeship (APA) has emerged in recent years as a new avenue for early career academic staff to develop into their roles. While much of the content may be similar, as an apprenticeship, the requirements and structure of the APA differ from other routes for supporting ea…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Sexual harassment is a widespread problem. In care work, a significant proportion of sexual harassment comes from care recipients. Vocational education and training has an important role to play in preparing students to deal with sexual harassment from care recipients, but students describe a silenc…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Various academic fields have focused on the transfer of Vocational Education and Training (VET) policies and practices, and the research base on VET policy transfer is broadly scattered. Recognising this deficit, researchers have sought to organise the current research. However, VET policy transfer …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Dual Vocational Education and Training (dual VET) has become an important educational model across Europe, although it is implemented in significantly different ways and remains a minority educational pathway in most countries. Previous research highlights that the capacity of dual VET models to res…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
One of the most important goals for vocational agriculture education in Burundi (ITAB) is to develop the sustainable agriculture competencies of students. Competence-based education (CBE) is the current official approach for ITAB curriculum design. The present study aimed to examine to what extent t…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Vocational colleges’ social role has been under-developed because they have been marketised and privatised, and because the idea of the vocational college has not been advanced and institutionalised. The paper describes this for public vocational colleges in Australia, which are at the vanguard of c…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This paper provides insights into relationships between formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and other types of on-the-job training in manufacturing companies in four Asian (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) and two African (Ethiopia and South Africa) countries. There…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This systematic review aims to examine empirical literature about advancing the social role of college-based higher education (CBHE). A thematic analysis of empirical evidence from the 58 included articles offers insights into the social role of CBHE, and the characteristics of CBHE colleges, studen…
