Great start for the new working year – The IJRVET Yearbook 2017 is available!

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) …

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IJRVET Yearbook 2017 is now available!

Starting in 2018, the International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) publish annually a Yearbook with all electronic articles published in the previous year. The first printed Yearbook (2017) is now available on Amazon (Amazon.com - Amazon.co.uk - Amazon.de - Amazon.fr - Amazon.es). An open access version of the Yearbook 2017 can be downloaded on ResearchGate. IJRVET provides open access to …

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ECER 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The call for papers for the 2018’s ECER in Bolzano is now open. The topic of the conference “Inclusion and Exclusion” is also relevant in VET research. Consider to submit a paper, symposium, or workshop to this or any VET-related issue to Network 2, VETNET. See ECER 2018 Call for Proposals.  Important dates: Emerging Researchers‘ Conference - 3 …

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Professor Karen Evans awarded with the VET Research Award of the European Commission 2017

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 …

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Joint Cooperation established between IJRVET and the International Labour Organization / Centro Interamericano para el Desarrollo del Conocimiento en la Formación Profesional (Cinterfor)

Cinterfor, the Centro Interamericano para el Desarrollo del Conocimiento en la Formación Profesional / Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (a technical service of OIT Organización International del Trabajo / ILO International Labour Organization) and IJRVET International Journal for Vocational Education and Training agreed this month on close cooperation. IJRVET is already accessible …

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Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part Six: Developments in the VETNET community

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 …

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Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part Five: Discussions on multi-methodological approaches in VET research

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). …

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Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part Four: Discussions on vocational teacher education

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 …

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Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part Three: Discussions on common qualification frameworks and credit transfer systems

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 …

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Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part Two: My reflections on Accompanying Research in the Learning Layers project

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 …

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