Vocational Education beyond Skill Formation

Vocational education and training has played an important role in the struggles between Work and Capital along history and today; there are examples of such tensions worldwide. The first section of this book provides illustrations of different countries from the 18th to the early 20th century. The authors explain and exemplify the education of the workforce and its political engagement, contributing to the formation of the working class. The chapters provide relevant approaches to how young apprentices and adult workers developed a class consciousness through vocational education. The second section illustrates practices of resistance and transformation within policies and practices of vocational education nowadays in Central and Southern Europe and South America, addressing the needs of people with disabilities and dispossessed populations. The final section analyses how theories and policies intertwine resulting in the idiosyncrasy of vocational education practices across the world, through tensions between logics and institutional actors. The book addresses the political dimensions of Vocational Education and problematizes its mere consideration as an instrumental tool in skill formation.

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Fernando Marhuenda is University Professor of Didactics and School Organization at the Universitat de València, Spain. He coordinates a research group on Transitions from Education into Employment for Vulnerable People. He lectures on Social Education and Teacher Education, and has been visiting scholar in Wisconsin-Madison, Rochester, Mainz, Augsburg and London.

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Fernando Marhuenda: Vocational Education, Labor and Citizenship: The Working Class, the Workforce and the Provision of Qualifications from Early to Contemporary Capitalism - 2. Lorenzo Bonoli: An Ambiguous Identity. The figure of the Apprentice from the XIX Century up to Today in Switzerland - Chiara Martinelli: A School for the Many but Attended by the Few: Industrial and Artistic Industrial Schools in Regional and National Data - Esther Berner: Citizenship and Participation: Apprenticeship as a Political Issue in the Swiss VET Debate in the 1970s/80s - Ida Juul: The Twin Aspiration of Danish Craftsmen to Maintain their Traditional Privileges and Be Accepted as Respectable Members of the Emerging Bourgeois Society - Kenneth Teitelbaum: Citizenship, Workers Education and Radical Activism in Early 20th Century United States - Germán Gil: Education and Work in the Libertarian Thinking of 19th and Early 20th Century Spain - Burkhard Volmers/Werner Kuhlmeier: Implementation of Sustainability into Germany ìs VET System by Means of Model Projects: A Review on the Years 2005 to 2015 - Patricia Olmos: The Role of VET into Social Participation and Self Determination of Disabled People as Full Citizens - Katerina Arkoudi-Vafea: Students of Vocational Education Centers in Greece and Financial Crisis - Tania Brabo: The Recent History of Vocational Education in Brazil: The Qualification of the Workforce and its Empowerment through Criticism and Mobilization - Vicente Palop: VET Challenges in Local Development: the UDATMA Case in Ecuador - Lea Zehnder/Philipp Gonon: Civic and Market Convention as Driving Forces of the Development of Swiss VET - Thomas Deissinger/Daniela Gremm: The Status of VET in Canada: Evidence from Literature and Qualitative Research - María José Chisvert/Ana Córdoba: Validation and Accreditation of Qualifications and Citizenship: a Method to Guarantee Social Equity in Spain - Míriam Abiétar/Fernando Marhuenda/Almudena Navas: The Ambiguous Role of Basic VET upon Social Inclusion: A Participatory Perspective on Social Justice - Liv Mjelde: Learning through Praxis and Cooperation. Lev Vigotski and Vocational Pedagogy - Anja Heikkinen/Perpetua Kalimasi/Elisabeth Opit/Jesse Sjelvgren: Promoting Basic Social and Health Care Work through Education: Global North and Global South in Comparison - Lorenz Lassnig/Stephan Vogtenhuber: VET Producing Second Class Citizens? Comparative Analyses of the VET and Tertiary Education Nexus