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Shaping flexibility in vocational education and training: institutional, curricular and professional conditions

Flexibility has been a dominant theme in recent economic and educational developments. Flexibility within the vocational education and training (VET) sector is approached from a variety of perspectives. This publication analyses flexibility within VET systems and investigates VET design and economic factors, educational tools as resources for flexible national delivery systems, and the role of VET professionals as promoters of flexibility. Flexibility promises to contribute to overcoming the challenges arising from the rapid changes and developments of the knowledge economy. This publication includes the following chapters: Shaping conditions for a flexible VET / Loek F. M. Nieuwenhuis, Wim J. Nijhof and Anja Heikkinen; Vocational education and training in transition: from Fordism to a learning economy / Kurt Mayer; Learning organisations for VET / Loek F. M. Nieuwenhuis; Perspectives on institutional and organisational flexibility in VET / Leif Hommen; Institutional responses to a flexible unified system / Cathy Howieson, David Raffe and Teresa Tinklin; Demand and supply of qualifications: systems' change towards flexibility / Luisa Ribolzi; Developments in vocational education in Ireland / David Tuohy; From a unified to a flexible vocational system: the Hungarian transition case / Laszlo Zachar; Design and effects of a flexible VET system: a case study in Dutch agricultural education / Jos Geerligs and Wim J. Nijhof; Valuing learning outcomes acquired in non-formal settings / Gerald A. Straka; Resources for flexibility: critical comments / Fernando Marhuenda; Professionalism as a path for the reform of VET systems / Lorenz Lassnigg; Transforming VET policies and professionalism: a view from Finland / Anja Heikkinen; HRD as a professional career?: perspectives from Finland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom / Tuija Hytonen, Rob Poell and Geoff Chivers; Challenges of supporting learning of newly qualified professionals in health care / Alan Brown; The practice of a new VET profession / Phil Hodkinson.

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Authors: Nijhof, Wim J.; Heikkinen, Anja; Nieuwenhuis, Loek F. M.
Date: 2002
Resource type: Book
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Economics; Teaching and learning

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