In the beginning of the working year 2018 Michael Gessler, the editor-in-chief of the IJRVET, has had a great message to us: The brand new IJRVET Yearbook is available as an online version and as a print version. Now, for the European and international research communities in the field of vocational education and training (VET) …
Continue reading Great start for the new working year – The IJRVET Yearbook 2017 is available!
At the European Vocational Skills Week 2017, taking place in November in Brussels, the European Commission awarded Professor Karen Evans with the VET Research Award of the European Commission. Congratulations for the award for an outstanding researcher which is active in VETNET for years! Karen Evans is Emeritus Professor of Education at the UCL Institute of …
In this concluding post I will report of common events of the European Vocational Education and Training Research Network (VETNET) and on developments in the VETNET community. I will start with the common events in Copenhagen and then move to issues on the VETNET community and its activities. The VETNET Opening Colloquium in Copenhagen For …
In this post I will report on a special research workshop that discussed ‘multi-methodological strategies and theory-diverse approaches’ as an effort to overcome theoretical and methodological diving lines. Below I will give a brief overview on the invited presentations and them add my comments (that I also delivered as a participant’s reaction in the session). …
With this post I try to give an overview on presentations that discussed reforms in vocational teacher education or issues related to practicum studies of teacher candidates. Here I am facing a multitude of presentations and sessions and I cannot even try to give comprehensive characterisations of them. Instead, I try to list the presentations …
With this post I will make remarks on sessions that discussed national/international qualification frameworks and trans-national credit transfer systems. Here I do not try to cover entire sessions (which may have had several themes under a ‘common’ umbrella). Instead, I try to make transparent some red threads that I could follow across similar sessions and …
In my previous blog I presented an overview on themes that I want to cover with my blog posts. With this post I give insights into my own presentation. Background, work plan and modification of the plan This year all my conference presentations focus on revisiting and reconceptualising our experience with the Learning Layers project …
When reporting on ECER 2017 I ended up writing six blog posts (including this overview). Therefore, I preferred to prepare firstly an overview. With each of the themes to be covered I have also different role positions and interests of knowledge that characterise the post: Firstly, in my own presentation on “Begleitforschung” (Accompanying research) I …
Continue reading Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part One: Thematic overview
One month ago, from the 22nd to the 25th of August we were working at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2017) in Copenhagen – at the Carlsberg campus of the University College Copenhagen (UCC). After the conference Pekka Kämäräinen has written a series of blog posts on the sessions of the VETNET network …
by Pekka Kämäräinen In this section I provide insights to the most recent years of VETNET activities – building upon prior achievements and bringing into picture new initiatives. ECER 2012 in Cadiz: The role of VET in overcoming the economic crisis Whatever we might have been able to plan in advance for ECER 2012 in …
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