Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
This paper argues that the recent policy reform of occupational qualifications in South Africa is not substantially different from previous qualifications composed of unit standards and learning outcomes. The transition to democracy in the 1990s saw the introduction of a National Qualifications Fram…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Exercising autonomy in the workplace is a prerequisite for the acquisition of complex perceptual, judgement, and decision making skills widely agreed to be criteria of vocational expertise. It has wide workplace relevance. Despite the importance of autonomy for developing vocational expertise there …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Occupational expertise has always been constituted and afforded recognition and status in work contexts, however, these contexts are becoming increasingly interconnected and interrelated, underpinned by, ‘intangible assets’. To explore this complex process and its implications for vocational educati…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
VET typically takes place at two educational sites: in VET school and at the workplace. The focus of this article is to analyse how Swedish VET teachers from three different VET programmes create ‘sameness and continuity’ between in-school training and work-based learning (WBL). Based on qualitative…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
In this paper, which takes the form of a dialogue, we discuss the possible directions that vocational education might take in the contemporary social, economic and technological context of the early 21st century. Taking account of the unresolved debates around vocational education internationally an…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
The scholarly debate about cooperation between different stakeholders in Vocational Education and Training has primarily focussed on the national level, and much less on local and regional levels. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of the conditions and mechanisms of decentralised …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Vocational knowledge originates from both research and from practice, each of which is transformed across several epistemic levels to become vocational knowledge. The several transformations of research to vocational knowledge have been described by Young and Bernstein as recontextualisations. Less …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Comparative studies on ‘apprenticeships’ in Europe increasingly cover a variety of programmes previously not considered under this heading. The paper explores the potential of a new, combined cultural-historical and functional classification of apprenticeships on the basis of their underpinning trai…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Publishing the results of thoughtfully designed research projects allows contemporary investigators to revisit the findings years later. The willingness of academics to make specific predictions about the impact of introducing user-choice principles into a state vocational education and training mar…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
This paper examines three interrelated factors outside of formal provision of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa that have undermined TVET systems. The first is the process, pace, and levels of industrialisation, which has had a direct effect on TVET provisi…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
This paper revisits the philosophical trajectory and practices in fashion education. It examines to what extent participatory action research (PAR) can contribute to the advancement of vocational education by emancipating practice-based skills and knowledge co-created by students, faculty members, a…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Many social enterprises aim to transition disadvantaged people into mainstream employment; they are engaged in commercial activity underpinned by a social mission. They provide training in life and work skills to develop capability, defined as ability to achieve. They are spaces apparently available…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Whether there is or should be a relation between ‘occupation’ and ‘qualification’ is a contested issue in vocational education and training (VET). The privileged shelter of structured occupational labour markets stands pitted against the near impossibility of access by those at the margins of employ…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
The goal of this study was twofold: firstly, to investigate vocational accounting students’ attitudes towards sustainable development; secondly, to explore the influence of students’ professional scepticism on their attitudes towards sustainable development. We surveyed 363 accounting students enrol…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
A substantial literature already exists in international students’ study experience, but since relatively less exploration has occurred into their involvement in work-integrated learning it was considered desirable to further develop what is known about this area. Still less is known about how organ…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Vocational education and training (VET) systems are currently confronted with extensive reforms. Teacher commitment and active participation play an important role in the achievement of policy objectives. Contemporary education reforms therefore seek to shape the conduct of teachers not only through…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2022)
Established in 2009, Swedish Higher Vocational Education (HVE) gives employers an opportunity to initiate state-funded but locally conceptualised and managed training programmes. This article investigates the system, the ideas used in policy to mandate this arrangement of vocational education and tr…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2021)
This paper chronicles and analyses the expansion and contraction of the Australian apprenticeship system from 1985 to 2020. The system expanded from a small number of occupations, mainly in craft and manufacturing areas, to include many other occupations, notably in the different types of service se…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2021)
In many countries, the contours of skills formation systems are traced back to early struggles over control of apprenticeship. This paper uses a curriculum lens to examine two distinctive policy moments in the history of formal apprenticeships in South Africa and to trace the legacy imprint of direc…
