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Author:   Philipp Gonon ,  Anja Heikkinen ,  Anja Heikkinen ,  Katrin Kraus
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   7
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9783039116034

ISBN 10:   3039116037
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   29 June 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Katrin Kraus/Anja Heikkinen: Reworking Vocational Education: Policies, Practices and Concepts - Introduction – Richard D. Lakes: Accountability, Performance Standards and Achievement Outcomes: Characteristics of a New Educational Order in the USA – Manfred Wahle: Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training for German Kindergarten Teachers: Contradictions between Premises and Pretensions – Philipp Gonon: The Internationalization of Vocational Education Reform-Concepts: A Rhetorical Perspective – Peter Kell/Gillian Vogl: Global Immigration, the Labour Market, and Vocational Education and Training in Australia – Matthias Vonken: Past it? The Situation of Older Employees – Françoise F. Laot: Focusing on the Idea of Permanent Education in France in the 1960s and its Progressive Decline – Katrin Kraus/Matthias Vonken: «Being Employable and Competent». Investigating the New Imperative from a Comparative Perspective – Antoni Lindgren: Soft Capitalism and Soft Pedagogy – Anja Heikkinen: Converging Gender in Education and Work? – Katrin Kraus: Re-Theorising (L)earning. The «Earning Schema» as an Area-Specific Model and Situated Concept.

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The Editors: Anja Heikkinen is a professor of lifelong learning and education at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her research interests include: the relationship between education, work and politics; the history and philosophy of vocational education; the impact of culture and gender on vocational education; and cross-cultural collaboration and practice. Katrin Kraus is a senior research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Upper Secondary and Vocational Education at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include: vocational education, social change and Europeanization; theories and concepts of earning oriented pedagogy, e.g. vocation/Beruf, employability, competence; theory of social space; and comparative, discourse and policy analyses.

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