The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), organised by the European Educational Research Association (EERA), was held at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, from 25-30 September, 2009. The conference was organised under EERA's networks, reflecting a range of disciplines and themes within educational research. Papers presented under VETNET, the Vocational Education and Training network are listed below.
The VETNET opening session on the conference theme of 'Theory and evidence in European educational research' was presented by Jasper van loo, Pascaline Descy, Guy Tchibozo, Sarah Lynch, Gillian Haynes, Joanna Burchert, and Michael Gessler. Papers for the VETNET network were presented on the sub-themes of Challenges and issues for VET; Dropout, transition and work experience; Work routines and workplace learning; Digital identities, personal learning environments and learning pathways; Literacy, diversity and foresight; Assuring comparability and compatibility of the sectoral qualifications between the ountries using the European Qualifications Framework; VET and FE: Economic, political and organisational aspects; Teaching, coaching and effectiveness; Teachers' development, guidance practice; Reform and innovation in VET; European survey perspectives on companies' support for vocational learning; Aspects of learning and assessment; EQF and NQF: experiences and references; Towards designing an implementation guideline framework for regional VET cooperation networks in Lithuania; Outcome orientation - where is the evidence?; European approaches to enhance permeability between vocational and higher education through accreditation of learning outcomes; Working and learning at old age: theory and evidence in an emerging European field of research; Learning arrangement to make professional learning more efficient and transformative; The concept of competence: roots, views and applications; Systemising qualifications, boundary crossing and pedagogical competence development of teaching students; European core profiles versus ECVET-units in aeronautics; Enabling high quality professional learning in the different sectors (including health care); Workplace learning: how to get evidence on the quality of initial vocational education and training; Comparing vocational learning in different context: VET school learning, apprenticeships and learning on the job; Vocational competence development in different learner groups (including learners with disabilities); VET practitioners - their changing role in an international comparative perspective; Developing personnel in different settings: from training of trainers up to vocational higher education; Low achievers performing in VET; Four professions in different time cultures; Value of part time work for pupils; and Influence on learning for different kinds of learners: from 'world of work' - to organisations up to electronic environment.
Papers presented on 28 September, 2009 include: Trends, issues and challenges for EU VET policies beyond 2010 / Jasper van Loo, Pascaline Descy, Guy Tchibozo; Delivering curriculum change through partnership: key lessons from the implementation of the new sector-related diplomas for 14-19 year olds in England / Sarah Lynch, Gillian Haynes; Researching pedagogical self-concepts of trainers / Joanna Burchert; Participant satisfaction, learning success and learning transfer: an empirical investigation of correlation assumptions in Kirkpatrick's four-level evaluation model / Michael Gessler; Re-entry after dropout from apprenticeship training / Evi Schmid; Educational and social policy concerning socially vulnerable groups: case study: occupational and educational opportunities / Helen Fragou; Learning at work or learning to work?: the impact of work experiences on young adults transition into employment / Beatrix Niemeyer; Mentoring in VET: some European perspectives on policy and practice / Harshita Goregaokar, David Gray; Workplace learning and changes in learning culture / Petr Novotny; Participation in work related learning activities and occupational specialisation / Katrin Kaufmann; Practice-based learning in the European higher education area in three field of study / Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen, Dusko Ursic, Bernd Hofmaier, Lars Bo Henriksen, Tim Hall, Ludger Deitmer; Digital identities, personal learning environments and learning pathways / Maria Perifanou, Stephen Warburton, Veronika Hornung-Prahauser, Josie Fraser, Raymond Elferink, Graham Attwell; Cultural diversity and gender in Swiss VET: identification and analysis of organisational and pedagogical arrangements for diversity integration / Barbara Pfister Giauque, Elettra Flamigni; Pathways for the foresight mechanism of teacher competences in vocational and higher education / Lena Siikaniemi; Enhancing literacy in the workplace: outcomes of the skills for life policy initiative in Britain / Alison Wolf, Liam Aspin, Andrew Jenkins; Twentieth century further education in England: the new localism, systems theory and governance / James Avis; How to analyse professional responsibility in a climate of accountability? / Tomas Englund, Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke; On the benefits of further training: participants self-assessment of the causality and the heterogeneity of returns / Kurt Schmid; 'I think a lot of it is common sense': early years students, professionalism and the development of a 'vocational habitus' / Annette Braun, Carol Vincent; Paraprofessionals and caring: tensions between individual views and normative expectations of providing care / Fredrik Sandberg, Chris Kubiak; The enabling conditions of learning / Elly De Bruijn, Mascha Enthoven; Career guidance in the Lisbon strategy: objectives and medium-term challenges for practice, policy and research / Guy Tchibozo; Assuring comparability and compatibility of the sectoral qualifications between the countries using the European Qualifications Framework / Milada Stalker, Miroslav Kadlec, Jakob Khayat, Carmel Kelly, M'Hamed Dif, Vidmantas Tutlys; Organizational climate versus training system: what is more important in workplace learning? / Zuzana Simberova; What promotes students' learning and vocational development at work? / Anneli Etelapelto, Paivi Tynjala, Anne Virtanen; Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training / Dolores Messer, Stefan Wolter; An examination of a programme in vocational education in the context of EU policy and changing market and employment needs / Maureen Killeavy, Lucy Tierney, Marie Clark, Marie Clynes; Situated learning in teacher training / Andreas Hartinger, Maria Folling-Albers, Astrid Rank; From teaching to vocational coaching, from school to profession, from learning to self-navigation / Hans-Rolf Vetter, Bo Hu; Effectiveness of secondary education in Iran: an external evaluation of the schools connectivity to the workplace / Arash Gavazi, Nematollah Azizi; Fostering teacher's collaboration by implementing innovation projects in vocational schools?: findings of the project SKOLA / Martin Lang; and Becoming, unbecoming, and not-becoming in professional careers: a case study of career guidance practitioners / Cathy Lewin, Charlotte Chadderton, Helen Colley.
Papers presented on 29 September, 2009 include: The changing skill formation and consequences for equal opportunity / Antonia Kupfer; VET Reforms / Geoff Hayward, Hubert Ertl; Systemic innovation in vocational education and training: an OECD perspective / Tracey Burns, Benat Bilbao-Osorio, Katerina Ananiadou, Francesc Pedro, Vanessa Shadoian; European survey perspectives on companies' support for vocational leaning / Francesca Sgobbi, Fatima Suleiman, Dick Moraal, Jorg Markowitsch, Riccardo Leoni, Philipp Christian Grollmann; New school and work based learning arrangements in Dutch VET / Jeroen Onstenk; Understanding drop-out in Swiss vocational education and training: the advantage of a qualitative approach / Nadia Lamamra; Work-related learning and 'threshold' thinking in an economic recession: what are young Europeans really learning? / David James; National qualifications frameworks in Ireland and Scotland: a comparative analysis / David Raffe; Reference objectives of occupational profiles - an EQF-conform functional approach of description / Gerald Thiel; ExPerO2EU: quality assurance for learning outcomes in post secondary VET in the mechatronics sector / Monika Prokopp; Banging on the door of the university: the evolving nature of university access for apprentices and other vocational students / Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin; Skills and competence in a knowledge economy: companies strategies for competence development and personnel recruitment / Agnes Dietzen; Financing, support and participation in further learning in Austria: a comparative perspective / Elfriede Wagner, Stefan Vogtenhuber, Lorenz Lassnigg; Towards designing an implementation guideline framework for regional VET cooperation networks in Lithuania / Jonathan Winterton, Georg Spottl, Louis Spaninks, M'Hamed Dif, Jessica Blings, Vidmantas Tutlys; Outcome orientation: where is the evidence? / Michael Young, Jordi Planas, Lorenz Lassnigg, Ludger Deitmer; European approaches to enhance permeability between vocational and higher education through accreditation of learning outcomes / Justin Rami, Marja-Leena Stenstrom, Wolfgang Muskens, Karin Luomi-Messerer, M'Hamed Dif, Roland Tutschner; Case study on the implementation and practice of VAE in higher education / Jean-Alain Heraud, Paul Nkeng, M'Hamed Dif; Validation/recognition of learning outcomes and entry to higher education through individualisation in adult education / Marja-Leena Stenstrom; Recognition and accreditation of prior learning in the engineering sector in Ireland / Justin Rami; Permeability between VET and HE: the experience of the module level indicator in Germany and its application in Austria: part 1 / Karin Luomi-Messerer, Wolfgang Muskens; Permeability between VET and HE: the experience of the module level indicator in Germany and its application in Austria: part 2 / Karin Luomi-Messerer, Wolfgang Muskens; 'Teacher's use you': knowledge, discourse, and the role of the teaching assistant / Clare Woolhouse, Linda Dunne; The attitude of vocational studies teachers (VT) and vocational studies teacher students (VST) towards their profession and towards academia / Gerd Pettersson, Signild Lemar; Socio-cultural determinants of continuing vocational education of people with migration backgrounds in Germany / Halit Ozturk; Defining VET professions in Europe, rhetoric and reality / Kristiina Volmari, Kenneth Marsh; Working and learning at old age: theory and evidence in an emerging European field of research / Marianne van Woerkom, Matthias Vonken, Ida Wognum, Birgit Luger, Jasper van loo, Bernhard Schmidt, Lyn Barham, Ruth Hawthorn, Regina Mulder, Rene Schalk, Sandra Bohlinger; Working and learning at old age: the impact of in/formal HRD initiatives / Ida Wognum; Helping older adults make career decisions / Ruth Hawthorn, Lyn Barham; Educational goals and motivation of older workers / Bernhard Schmidt; Recruitment at the middle qualification level: case studies from Germany, England and Switzerland / Ute Hippach-Schneider, Philipp Gonon, Tanja Weigel; Forms of learning and vocational training in enterprises / Odd Bjorn Ure; Workplace trainers and their organisational contexts in companies / Anke Bahl; Personal learning outcomes of business plan based entrepreneurship education / Kati Laine; How can the theme 'sustainable development' be integrated in VET?: an empirical study in the German recycling industry / Christiane Koeth; From bottom to up: foresight framework in educational organization / Anja Harkonen, Soili Saikkonen; Equality of practical and theoretical knowledge in the NQF and EQF / Vibe Aarkrog; Higher skills development: developing knowledge, skills and understanding across contexts: building on findings from the teaching and learning research programme / Jamie Brown, Jennifer Bimrose, Alan John Brown; Conceptions of ageing in Europe: evidence from the European social survey / Jasper van Loo; Does age influence the relationship between learning opportunities at work and employee well being and mobility? / Marianne van Woerkom, Rene Schalk; Qualifying older employees for maintaining employability: the project 'BusQua' / Matthias Vonken.
Papers presented on 30 September, 2009 include: Developing competences in vocational education: the Learn2act research project / Walter Vogel, Ernst Pichler, Daniela Moser; The bridge between vocational and general education in the Netherlands / Wil Van Esch; The order of qualifications: do we need a European typology of qualifications? / Jorg Markowitsch; 'Putting knowledge to work' in work-based programmes: from transfer to recontextualisation / David Guile; The concept of competence: roots, views and applications / Lewis Hughes, Michael Eraut, Leonard Cairns, Martin Mulder; Competency-based training: Nostradamus's nostrum: what happened and where might we 'capably' go? / Leonard Cairns, Lewis Hughes; Competences as mediating artefacts / Michael Eraut; The genesis of the concept of competence and review of competency theory and research / Martin Mulder; Professional doctorates and workplace learning: international perspectives / Marg Malloch; The impact of continuing education on the professional development of the diagnosis and therapy technicians / Vitor Rosa, Antonio Fragoso, Isabel Paes de Faria, Eduardo Figueira; European core profiles versus ECVET-units in aeronautics / Laureano Jimenez Esteller, Alain Savoyant, Alan John Brown, Rainer Bremer, Annie Bouder, Andreas Saniter; Are core profiles or ECVET-units a chance in an unregulated system? / Laureano Jimenez Esteller; Core profiles as a common basis for further activities in transnational VET / Andreas Saniter, Rainer Bremer; The relation between ECVET-units and modules / Alan John Brown; The relation between core profiles and ECVET-units / Annie Bouder, Alain Savoyant; Practice governing moments of professional staff members in nursing homes: reflections on vocational education and training / Kathrin Trunkenpolz; Health professionals' competences in the field of clinical diagnosis through imaging: a contribute to their definition / Timothy Koehnen, Rogerio Amaro, Paula Jacinto, Eduardo Figueira; Efforts implementing quality assurance in VET in Hungary / Magdolna Benke; Workplace learning: how to get evidence on the quality of initial vocational education and training / Barbara E. Stalder, Andreas Rausch, Juergen Seifried, Christof Nagele; Workplace organizations and vocational learning in shop floors analyzed through cultural historical activity theory / Maria-Cristina Migliore; Apprenticeship or school?: evaluation of the influence of socio economic factors on the vocational decision on secondary level I / Johanna Rechberger; Intermediate vocational education and training for 16-19 year-olds in Germany and England / David Yeomans, H.-Hugo Kremer, Jeremy Higham; The development of vocational competences of young learning disabled persons: results of the project VamB / Schulz Katrin, Burkhard Vollmers; Working life education as a university subject, a case study: experiences, constrains and challenges / Marianne Oberg Tuleus, Lazaro Moreno Herrera; Multi-country comparisons of the transition from school to working life of young people with disabilities / Kai Felkendorff, Helga Fasching; VET practitioners - their changing role in an international comparative perspective / Voicu Liliana, Krista Loogma, Ana Garcia Munoz, Jose Luis Garcia Molina, Pia Cort, Simone Ruth Kirpal; The changing roles and competences of VET practitioners in Spain / Ana Garcia Munoz, Jose Luis Garcia Molina, Jose Luis Garcia Molina; The changing roles and competences of VET practitioners in Romania / Voicu Liliana; The changing roles and competences of VET practitioners in Estonia / Krista Loogma; The changing roles and competences of VET practitioners in Denmark / Pia Cort; Professionalism of trainers in further education: competencies, working-profiles and further education of freelance trainers in vocational training / Aiga von Hippel, Kollmannsberger Markus, Sandra Fuchs; Knowledge from the experience of a police officer: a grounded study / Patrizio Bosio; What is 'higherness'?: conceptualising 'higher' education in the context of new forms of vocational HE / Ann-Marie Bathmaker; Are low achievers necessarily dropouts?: PISA scores as predictors of upper secondary graduation / Thomas Meyer, Sandra Hupka-Brunner, Barbara E. Stalder; Time and profession, reasons and effects of time cultures in professions, exemplified by midwives, artists, site supervisors, and tram operators / Franz Schapfel-Kaiser; School students' part-time work: does it have any value? / Sandy Hobbs, Jim McKechnie; Early school leaving and VET in Austria in comparative perspective: incidence and policies / Elfriede Wagner, Mario Steiner, Lorenz Lassnigg; Fostering employability in work integration social enterprises / Nuria Gonzalez, Joan Carles Bernad, Almudena Navas; Factors of growth-oriented atmosphere: a case study in a Finnish polytechnic institution of higher education / Pekka Ruohotie, Petri Nokelainen; Shifting to an e-learning student-centric vocational training environment / Panagiotis Kalagiakos.
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