Although there are already some qualification offers available for enterprises to support resource efficiency innovations, the high potentials that can be identified especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have not been activated until now. As successful change lies in the hands of humans, the main aim of vocational education has to be the promotion of organisational and cultur...

Digital Games as a means of learning have become more important in recent years. Infrastructural and sociological developments have created fertile grounds for game innovations, making use of latest technology and being welcomed by new generations of learners. This chapter focuses on an overview of the current state of the art of learning games, explaining different perspectives. As the gamers’...

This paper shows that policy reforms in Vocational Education and Training in Australia since the late 1980s developed with the specific intention of reforming the official pedagogic discourse and associated pedagogic spaces that existed at that time. The discourses of flexible delivery, flexible learning, online learning, e-learning and blended learning established pedagogic spaces that are des...

Governments increasingly see education and, in particular, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as having a key role to play in the economic success and social stability of a country. Corporate bodies, as consumers of skilled workers, are loud in articulating their need for trained staff as they search for new markets and increasing productivity. Individuals are becoming aware...

Vocational education is an indispensable part in China’s educational system as well as an important basis of its national economy and social development. Therefore, it is a necessary tendency to strive to develop vocational education in order to deepen China’s reform in educational system and to realize the sustainable development of its education. However, due to the conflicts between China’s ...

21 The article addresses key challenges for the teaching profession, and corresponding institutions, to secure a prominent role in a VET reform, which is devoted to a lifelong learning perspective. These challenges may apply to EU countries but draw on the author’s work in transition countries. The article clarifies the difficulties for vocational education and training to incorporate lifelong ...

The renewed actuality of the theme of entrepreneurship and self-employment training is due to increasing problems in transition from VET to working life at a time where access to paid employment can no longer be taken for granted and where entrepreneurship and selfemployment have, consequently, become more important as potential sources of livelihood. The paper examines this situation through a...

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational education and had no signif...

Society has traditionally taken the position that education is a primary means of achieving national goals. Unfortunately, we have never collectively agreed upon “what kind” of education is needed--general or vocational. The present K-12 public educational system in the United States is comprised of general and vocational education tracts. Historically, one of the goals of vocational education ...

The Paper is based on the evaluation of a sample of communities of practice formed with funding from Reframing the Future in 2002. The paper provides three good practice examples from the 2002 communities that were effective in identifying, reflecting upon and improving their practice, such as their ideas, tools and work styles. This reflection on practice was particularly apparent in the follo...