Session Information
02 SES 12 A, Criticality in International Comparative VET Research
Symposium
Contribution
In two symposia (A and B) transnational projects with different country foci (Costa Rica, China, Mexico, Peru, Russia and Thailand) and different level perspectives (micro, meso, exo, macro) will present their findings. The research projects with a duration of about three years each were initiated by German researchers with local cooperation partners and are funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The funding aim is threefold: (1) to strengthen the expertise of universities and other research institutions in research on international vocational training projects and the training of academic vocational training staff; (2) to integrate that expertise more closely into the BMBF's international vocational training cooperation; and (3) to make the scheme available to foreign partners in order to support reform processes abroad towards more practice-oriented initial and continuing vocational education and training (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2017).
The projects are embedded in different research purposes, e.g. development research, transfer research and business research. Despite these different settings, there are common basic orientations in the form of mutual learning and exchange, as well as orientation towards development goals (improvement).
However, the central challenge of international comparative VET research is how to achieve "criticality", which is the focus of the symposium. In particular, this involves counteracting uncritical assumptions of unilinear development perspectives and dominant discourses.
References
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2017). Announcement. Regulations governing funding for research on the internationalization of vocational education and training (VET). berufsbildung-international.de/files/BEK_IBBF_eng.pdf. Gessler, M., Bohlinger, S., & Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O. (2021). International Vocational Education and Training Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 8(4), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.8.4.1 Pil, M., & Li, J. (2020). Comparative Vocational Education Research: Enduring Challenges and New Ways Forward. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29924-8
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