This report on the historical emergence of the Danish [vocational education and training] VET is one of the first four country studies from the comparative Nordic research project Nord-VET supported by NordForsk under the Nordic Council of Ministers. Parallel to this Danish report similar research reports are published by the project on the other countries participating in the project: Finland, Norway and Sweden. The purpose of the project is to generate new knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of VET at upper secondary level in the four Nordic countries.... [+] Show more
This report on the historical emergence of the Danish [vocational education and training] VET is one of the first four country studies from the comparative Nordic research project Nord-VET supported by NordForsk under the Nordic Council of Ministers. Parallel to this Danish report similar research reports are published by the project on the other countries participating in the project: Finland, Norway and Sweden. The purpose of the project is to generate new knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of VET at upper secondary level in the four Nordic countries. This research is expected to strengthen the knowledge base required for developing VET for the future. The Nordic countries provide unique opportunities for comparative research in the field of initial vocational education. On the one hand they are characterized by similar societal contexts; on the other hand they exhibit significant differences in their models of VET. This situation has made the Nordic countries a living experiment of diverging forms of VET, in which a variety of significant qualities can be explored in relation to closely related societies. The main purpose of this project is to shed light on the different Nordic ways of handling the key dilemma of providing double access to the labour market and to higher education (HE) in vocational education. More specifically it seeks to determine how the different ways of handling this dilemma have an impact on social equality, inclusion and the esteem of vocational education. These first four country reports explore the historical background for the emergence of the four different Nordic systems of VET.
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