Insights into 'Research on the internationalization of vocational education and training'

On May 10, 2017, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research published its announcement on 'the promotion of the internationalization of vocational education and training'. In the German-speaking countries, there are various research strands regarding the internationalization of vocational education and training (VET) cooperation in the fields of development research, transfer research, European VET cooperation, service research, corporate research and network research. MP-INVET focuses on establishing a network of research and development activities from the 'Research for the Internationalization of Vocational Education and Training' funding initiative and the systematic analysis of the results to strengthen the visibility and international connectivity of the new research program in the long term.

The opening conference for the BMBF funding initiative 'Research for the Internationalization of Vocational Training' took place on January, 29, 2020 in the offices of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn, Germany. This publication contains the following papers: Ownership practices by local actors: the case of dual vocational education in Mexico / Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz, Natascha Rohrer and Beke Vogelsang; Social representations of non-academic work in Mexico from the perspective of entrepreneurs and young people / Claudia Hunink, Lydia Raesfeld, Paola Garcia Fuentes and Stefan Gold; Multi-sided analysis of needs of TVET students in problem solving skills in South Africa / Jelena Zascerinska, Jacqueline Scheepers, Martin Kuhn and Kay Pfaffenberger; Supporting international market entry of VET providers by international business model design / Gunnar Kassberg, Phuong Thi Nguyen, Thanh Tuan Nguyen and Utz Dornberger; Progressing work-based learning of TVET systems in Thailand = Gestaltungsorientierte handlungsforschung in der berufsbildungskooperation: das projekt 'weiterentwicklung arbeitsbezogener lernformen in der beruflichen bildung in Thailand' / Thomas Schroder, Siriphorn Schlattmann, Julia Gulich and Barbara Hupfer; Quality development of vocational education and training in India: supporting and restraining factors / Matthias Pilz, Jakob Schulte, Julia Regel and Muthuveeran Ramasamy; Competence-based curriculum in the Chinese and Russian commercial vocational education: from planning to implementation / Anastasia Goncharova, Pujun Chen, Dietmar Frommberger, Matthias Pilz and Junmin Li; PhD vocational education = Professionalisierung der georgischen berufsbildung / Marcel Martsch, Tamara Hennige and Hannes Tegelbeckers; Vocational teacher education and vocational education research in Costa Rica: status quo and perspectives / Irina Rommel, Anastasia Goncharova and Dietmar Frommberger; Networks in international vocational education and training research: a contribution to best practices / Sandra Bohlinger, Ianina Scheuch, Hoang Long Nguyen, Anne Biess and Alina Praun; Professional development of doctoral researchers in vocational education and training: a cross-national study in times of uncertainty / Anja-Christina Greppmair and Michael Gessler; Research on the internationalization of vocational education and training: cross-project evaluation results and their implications / Carla Kuhling-Thees, Miriam Toepper and Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia.

Excerpts from publisher's website and publication.

Individual English language papers are available in VOCEDplus from TD/TNC 150.462 to TD/TNC 150.471. Show less