NordYrk 2021 Conference - Call for abstracts! Provided by per.andersson@liu.se, Linköping University, Sweden The NordYrk 2021 conference will be hosted by Linköping University, Sweden, June 7–9. Deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31, 2021. Save the dates! The conference will, if possible, take place at one of the campuses in either Linköping or Norrköping. …
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The significance of the title In contrast to general education, vocational education and training (VET) is characterised worldwide by a high degree of complexity. VET is multidimensional and, sometimes, has diffuse structures. VET is a descriptor which includes such as aspects as pre-vocational education, school-based VET, apprenticeship systems, technical education, higher VET, work-based learning, further education and lifelong learning. These …
Continue reading Recently published: Comparative Vocational Education Research
The "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET)" was already mentioned on the original Beall´s List, a – now archived – list of potential predatory scholarly open-access publishers. WASET is also mentioned in the successor list Stop Predatory Journals, and WASET also organizes fake conferences. Several newspaper publishers – such as The New York Times ("One …
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The Proceedings "Trends in Vocational Education and Training (Vol. 2)" of the Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET), presented papers at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Hamburg 2019, with more than 50 "short papers" and 462 pages in total can be downloaded ... here. It is an open access volume.
Vetnetsite continues publishing blog posts of Pekka Kämäräinen on the ECER 2019 and on the contribution of the VETNET network for European research in vocational education and training (VET). The first post focused on the Opening session of the VETNET network. The second post focused on the organisational development of the VETNET network and on …
Vetnetsite continues publishing blog posts of Pekka Kämäräinen on the ECER 2019 and on the contribution of the VETNET network for European research in vocational education and training (VET). The first post focused on the Opening session of the VETNET network. The second post gives an overview of the organisational development of the VETNET network …
Continue reading Reflections on ECER 2019 and VETNET – Post 2: Development of the VETNET network
With this series of blog posts Pekka Kämäräinen gives insights into ECER 2019 conference and into the contribution of VETNET network – the research network for the field of vocational education and training (VET). The first post focuses on the traditional VETNET Opening session. Below, firstly some background information and then a summary of the …
Continue reading Reflections on ECER 2019 and VETNET – Post 1: The VETNET Opening session
Last week the ECER 2019 conference took place at the University of Hamburg. Once again, the VETNET network for European research in vocational education and training (VET) was present with a strong program. And once again, the historian of VETNET, Pekka Kämäräinen, has written a series of blogs to wrap up his experiences. This time …
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OECD Conference Centre, Paris, 7 October 2019 The joint Cedefop/OECD symposium on apprenticeship brings together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from around the world to consider new research and practice exploring the future of apprenticeship provision. Apprenticeship provision has a long history of enabling the transitions for young people from education into sustained skilled employment. …
In this post I will concentrate on my own contributions that focus on the follow-up phase of our EU-funded Learning Layers (LL) project and on the issue ‘transfer of innovation’ after such a project. Firstly I will discuss my presentation on the research background of the LTB – prepared for the EERA session on using …
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