Changing Vocational Education and Training: An International Comparative Perspective

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ISBN: 9780415181433 | 0415181437
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Copyright: 12/17/1998

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Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the system.Changing Vocational Education and Training focuses on how the principles of stakeholding, consensus, participation and democracy can be applied to policy formulation and implementation. Case studies, presented and discussed by experts from eight nations, provide sound examples of practical strategies which have been successfully implemented.Changing Vocational Education and Training is a timely collection of the latest theory, research and practice in VET policy. It is essential reading for policy-makers, practitioners and academics.

List of illustrations	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Stakeholders, consensus, participation and democracy	p. 3
Stakeholding, consensus, participation and democracy	p. 5
Principles for achieving consensus	p. 11
Perspectives of change	p. 18
Stakeholders and partners in vocational education and training in Scotland	p. 20
Introduction	p. 20
Stakeholders and partners	p. 21
Industrial training	p. 24
The Manpower Services Commission and the response to unemployment	p. 28
The new Scottish VET partnerships	p. 32
Colleges and local authorities	p. 35
Qualifications and targets	p. 36
The devolving partnerships of the European Union	p. 37
Conclusions	p. 38
A consensus approach to policy-making: the case of the Republic of Ireland	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
The overall context: a consensus approach to national policy-making	p. 42
Education policy-making: the National Education Convention	p. 48
The discourse of partnership	p. 53
Vocational education and training policy and practice	p. 55
Provision of VET	p. 60
Some concluding remarks	p. 62
Bodies represented at the National Education Convention	p. 65
Transformation and reform of vocational education and training in Taiwan, Republic of China	p. 70
Introduction	p. 70
Vocational education	p. 71
Vocational training	p. 74
Stakeholders in education and training	p. 78
Consensus and action	p. 81
Policies for the future	p. 82
Conclusion	p. 84
Developmental corporatism and the process of change in vocational education and training: the Singaporean experience	p. 86
The VET system in Singapore	p. 87
Developmental corporatism and the consensus process in Singapore	p. 91
Reformed educational system (1991)	p. 99
The composition of CPTE	p. 100
Change and consensus in vocational education and training: the case of the German 'dual system'	p. 103
Selected key factors in the demand for change	p. 103
The basic structure of VET in Germany	p. 105
Change in VET: the significance of training-ordinances	p. 109
The role of stakeholders in the development of training-ordinances	p. 111
Phase structure of training-ordinance development	p. 113
Deficiencies of the development of training-ordinances	p. 118
Relevant deficiencies of the dual system	p. 120
Process owners and stakeholders in VET reforms in Finland	p. 123
Historical perspectives	p. 123
The 'great reform' of vocational education of 1970s and 1980s	p. 124
The multilevel planning as a precursor to decentralisation	p. 127
Beyond the great reform: reforms since 1988	p. 128
Who were the process owners and the stakeholders in the great reform?	p. 131
The goals of the great reform	p. 133
Outcomes of the great reform	p. 135
The process of change in vocational education and training in the United States	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Vocational education and training in the United States	p. 137
Who are the major stakeholders?	p. 138
How are stakeholders involved in the process of change?	p. 143
What is consensus and how is it achieved?	p. 149
Epilogue	p. 153
Consensus in the United States and other countries	p. 154
The process of change in vocational education and training: the South African experience	p. 156
The earlier context	p. 156
Some developments relating to VET since 1990	p. 159
The nature and shape of vocational education and training	p. 161
Change processes -- policy processes	p. 162
The bases of the change processes	p. 164
Consensus then -- consensus now!	p. 169
The present situation	p. 176
Index	p. 179
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