Network Sessions as ECER 2023

Network: 02. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)

02 SES 01 C, VETNET Opening Session

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 13:15-14:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Christof Nägele

  1. VETNET Opening Session

    2. Christof Nägele  Barbara E. Stalder  Natasha Kersh  Andrea Laczik 

02 SES 02 B, Access to VET

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 15:15-16:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Anett Friedrich

  1. Between Myth and Reality: the True Inclusive Impact of the Dual Model

    2. Lorenzo Bonoli  Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá 

  2. School Leaving Certificates and Dual Vocational Education and Training - The Role of Firms as Gatekeeper in Germany

    3. Anett Friedrich 

02 SES 02 C, Assessment and Feedback in VET

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 15:15-16:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Ann Karin Sandal

  1. Zooming in on Assessment: an Analytical Model for Investigating Changes in Assessment in VET

    2. Karin Luomi-Messerer  Monika Auzinger 

  2. A Tool for the Self-Assessment of Informal Learning for Workers in the Metal and Electrical Industry

    3. Martin Fischer 

  3. Self-regulation and Formative Feedback in Vocational Education and Training

    4. Ann Karin Sandal  Kjersti Hovland 

02 SES 02 A, Diversity in VET

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 15:15-16:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Lea Remmers

  1. Diversity-oriented Teachers for Vocational Education. Analysis and Modelling of Competence Requirements for Teacher Education and Training.

    2. Daniela Moser  Nicole Kimmelmann  Susanne Miesera  Silvia Pool Maag 

  2. Considerations on Diversity-Sensitive Approaches in Youth Vocational Assistance regarding Non-Fittings and Resistance of Participants and Teachers

    3. Songuel Cora  Lea Remmers  Natalie Pape  Paula Matthies  Prof. Dr. Helmut Bremer 

02 SES 03 B, Transitions in VET

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Harm Biemans

  1. Linking Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with Higher Education, and possible Consequences for Development Cooperation

    2. Junmin Li  Johannes Karl Schmees  Steffen Entenmann  Dieter Euler  Dietmar Frommberger 

  2. The Decision to Combine Initial and Continuing Vocational Education and Training: Narrowing the Structure and Purpose of Finnish VET?

    3. Antti Seitamaa  Helena Hinke Dobrochinski Candido 

  3. Student Perceptions of Different Learning Trajectories in Dutch VET

    4. Harm Biemans  Hans Mariёn 

02 SES 03 A, Students at Risk

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Tarja Irene Tikkanen

  1. Good Practice of Involvement of Students at Risk in Vocational Education

    2. Biruta Sloka  Ilze Buligina  Ginta Tora  Juris Dzelme  Ilze Brante  Anna Angena 

  2. Career Development Qualitative Tools: An Analysis of its Potential with Youth at Risk

    3. Celia Moreno-Morilla  Gladys Rivodó Muñoz  Soledad Romero Rodríguez 

  3. VET Teachers’ and Schools’ Capacities to Tackle the Challenges of Integration of At-risk Youth: An International Comparison

    4. Tarja Irene Tikkanen  Vidmantas Tūtlys  Meril Umarik  Biruta Sloka 

02 SES 03 C, Democracy

Tuesday, 2023-08-22, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Kristina Ledman

  1. Democracy at VET – Thoughts and Challenges from an Organisational and Didactical Approach

    2. Henriette Duch 

  2. Democracy Learning through Participation in Germany’s Dual System – a Bernsteinian Approach

    3. Gabriela Höhns 

  3. Opportunities for Critical Thinking, Social Inclusion and Democratic Participation in Vocational Students' Citizenship Education

    4. Kristina Ledman  Katarina Kärnebro  Christina Ottander 

02 SES 04 B, Curricula

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Pujun Chen

  1. Way Forward from Ground Zero: Identifying Stakeholder Views for VET Curriculum Development Model in Agriculture for Northern Part of Cyprus.

    2. Ozge Altay 

  2. Implementing the Competence-Based Approach in Chinese and Russian Vocational Curricula: Lessons Learned From Teacher Interviews and Classroom Observations

    3. Pujun Chen  Junmin Li  Matthias Pilz  Anastasia Goncharova  Dietmar Frommberger 

  3. Distinction or Distinctiveness: Making Sense of Diversity in Education for High Skills

    4. Sue Webb  Elizabeth Knight 

02 SES 04 A, Transition Focus Teacher

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Matthias Pilz

  1. The Phenomenon of Vocational Orientation in a General Subject in VET

    2. Anniken Hotvedt Sundby 

  2. Teachers and Their Role in the Career Choice Process

    3. Barbara E. Stalder  Christof Nägele 

  3. School Quality as an Example for Policy Learning: Lessons from a German-Indian Cooperation Project

    4. Matthias Pilz 

02 SES 04 C, Learning in VET

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Janne Kontio

  1. "From Apprentice to Learner” - On the Perception of Young People in the Course of the Transformation of Vocational Education

    2. Lena Freidorfer 

  2. Top Dead Center. The Transformation of a Lexical Item into Practical Work in Bilingual Vocational Education

    3. Janne Kontio 

  3. Meaningfulness in Third Learning Environment in VET

    4. Vibe Aarkrog  Anne Katrine Kamstrup 

02 SES 06 A, Teacher Education and Training

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Geraldine Body

  1. Training of Trainers and Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders

    2. Geraldine Body 

  2. Quality Criteria for Development of Teacher Education Schools in VET by a Symbiotic Learning Model

    3. Ann Lisa Sylte  Hilde Hiim  Olav Eikeland 

  3. "Blending 4 Futures": A Teacher Training Course in Blended Learning for Vocational Teachers, Based on Design-Research

    4. Marc Casper  Anja Augsdoerfer  Anna van Meegen 

02 SES 06 B, Get Ready For Vocational Pathways

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Christof Nägele

  1. Application Patterns at Upper Secondary Educational Level Over Time as a Manifestation of the Standing of Vocational Education

    2. Elsa Eiríksdóttir 

  2. Determinants and Fulfilment of Individual Work Values Within the Vocational Choice Process – The Role of Social Background

    3. Annalisa Schnitzler  Silvia Annen 

  3. Finding the Way into VET – Career Education

    4. Christof Nägele  Barbara E. Stalder 

02 SES 06 C, Governance

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Marina Fiori

  1. "We are misfit children": How Vocational School Principals Perceive their Role

    2. Mirit Haybi Barak  Avihu Shoshana 

  2. Learning Environments in Vocational Education and Training

    3. Vibe Aarkrog  Bjarne Wahlgren 

  3. A place for emotional competences in Vocational Education and Training

    4. Marina Fiori  Florinda Sauli  Matilde Wenger 

02 SES 07 C, Learning in Companies

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Maria Hedlin

  1. Digital Transformation by Women. Competence Requirements of Companies for Future IT Professionals Respecting a Gender Perspective.

    2. Ida Kristina Kühn 

  2. Impact of Work-oriented Basic Education from the Company Perspective

    3. Ilka Koppel  Claudia Schepers 

  3. VET Students Training for Jobs in the Hospitality Industry Explain Sexual Harassment by Guests

    4. Maria Hedlin  Eva Klope 

02 SES 07 D, Transition from HE and HIVE

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 1 [Floor 2], Chair: Andrea Laczik

  1. Diversifying the Higher Education Landscape: Facilitating Transition from HE and HIVE to the World of Work

    2. Andrea Laczik  Lázaro Moreno Herrera 

  2. Origins and Policy Perspectives on Hybrid Study Programmes (HSP) in Germany, England and Austria: Aiming to Enhance Pathways of Transition?

    3. Andrea Laczik  Johanna Telle Zips  Dina Kuhlee  Edgar Hahn  Lisa-Marie Brand 

  3. Innovation and Diversity in the Context of Higher Education in England: Enhancing Graduate Employability, Life Chances and Career Transitions

    4. Andrea Laczik  Natasha Kersh 

  4. Degree Apprenticeships in England – Successful Transitions into Higher Education and the Workplace?

    5. Andrea Laczik  Kat Emms 

  5. Intersections Between Vocational and Higher Education in Germany: Labour Market Transition Patterns in times of skills shortages

    6. Andrea Laczik  Hubert Ertl 

02 SES 07 A, Teachers Work

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Franz Kaiser

  1. What Makes a VET Classroom Difficult to Manage? A Multilevel Analysis of Classcontext and Classcomposition as Determinants for Classroom Management

    2. Sylvia Rahn  Christoph Fuhrmann  Allkemper Inga  Shevchuk Anna  Glock Sabine 

  2. Classroom Disruptions and Classroom Management in Learning Factory Settings at Vocational Schools

    3. Pierre Meinokat  Ingo Wagner 

  3. How to Analyse the Work of VET Teachers in Germany? The Work Task Analysis TAGMA based on Action Regulation Theory

    4. Franz Kaiser  Lea Besser  Anne Traum  Renate Rau 

02 SES 07 B, Literacy and Sustainable Development

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Riikka Suhonen

  1. Literacy for Labour - Realised Curriculum of the School Subject of Literacy in Competency-based VET in Finlan

    2. Penni Pietilä  Sirpa Lappalainen 

  2. Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development in Berlin's "Flagship Schools": A Transformative Design-Based Research Project

    3. Marc Casper  Petra Gerlach  Christina Ayazi 

  3. Neutral VET in a Polarising World? Teachers’ Pedagogical Approaches to Addressing Controversial Global Issues in Upper Secondary VET in Finland

    4. Riikka Suhonen  Antti Rajala  Hannele Cantell  Arto Kallioniemi 

02 SES 08 B, Lower Secondary

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Liana Roos

  1. Observation-Based and Collaborative Learning in Lower Secondary VET. The Case of Hungary and Poland.

    2. Magdolna Benke  Anikó Haba  Tomasz Rachwał 

  2. Youths Struggling the Transition to VET: Their Profile and Needed Key Competencies – Perspectives from an Estonian Preparatory VET Program

    3. Liana Roos  Karmen Trasberg  Diana Eller 

02 SES 08 C, Nursing and Health Care

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Martina Wyszynska Johansson

  1. Analysis of Cognitively-Activating Tasks in Vocational Education and Training of Nursing Against the Background of Diversity

    2. Miriam Schäfer  Bärbel Wesselborg  Ulrike Weyland  Marc Kleinknecht  Wilhelm Koschel  Kristin Klar 

  2. The Important Role of Emotional Intelligence for Apprentices in Healthcare and Social Care in Vocational Education and Training.

    3. Laure Tremonte-Freydefont  Marina Fiori  Matilde Wenger 

  3. Vocational Didactics in Sweden: Mapping of the Terrain

    4. Martina Wyszynska Johansson  Ingela Andersson 

02 SES 08 A, The Dual Model

Wednesday, 2023-08-23, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Benjamin Schimke

  1. The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship (dVET) Transfer on Young People: The Case of the Mexican Model of Dual Training

    2. Ellen Vanderhoven 

  2. Dual Apprenticeships of German Family Companies in Central and Eastern Europe: Status and perspectives

    3. Michael Gessler  Susanne Peters 

  3. Same Degree, Different Labour Market Opportunities? Experimental Evidence on Signalling Effects of School Types in the Selection of Apprenticeship Applicants

    4. Benjamin Schimke  Claudia Schuchart 

02 SES 09 A, Teacher Education

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Blanca Estela Braña de Hvidsten

  1. The Professional Learning Practices and Views of Hungarian Vocational Teachers and Trainers

    2. Eszter Bükki  Anikó Fehérvári 

  2. Teacher Specialists in VET: How Can Professional Development Through an Experience-based Master's Degree Strengthen Their Role as Teacher Specialists

    3. Elin B. Morud  Roger Bergh  Klara Rokkones 

  3. Student Experiences from a Cohort Who Completed the Study of Practical Pedagogy for Tertiary Vocational Education at OsloMet in Norway

    4. Blanca Estela Braña de Hvidsten  Anette Lund Follestad 

02 SES 09 C, Understanding Transitions

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Barbara E. Stalder

  1. Understanding Transitions to and Through Working Life: Concepts, Methods and Procedural Imperatives

    2. Christof Nägele  Barbara E. Stalder  Christiane Hof 

  2. Vocational Education Graduates’ Negotiations With the New Conditions of Working Life Transitions

    3. Christof Nägele  Susanna Ågren 

  3. Transitioning Experience: Migrant Learning and Engaging with Canada’s Labour Market Challenges

    4. Christof Nägele  Michael Bernhard 

  4. When sustainability becomes something professional: Diverse ways of learning between Work & Sustainable Development

    5. Christof Nägele  Elisa Thevenot 

  5. The Learning and Changes Adults Negotiate Across Worklife Transitions

    6. Christof Nägele  Stephen Billett 

02 SES 09 B, Excellence

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Paolo Nardi

  1. Teacher Training and Empowerment as a Tool to Meet the Challenges of an Inclusive School in rural school

    2. Anna Monzó Martínez  M. Pilar Martínez-Agut  Encarna Taberner Perales  Isabel María Gallardo  Concepción Barceló López  M. Fernanda Chocomeli Fernández 

  2. Innovative and Inclusive Pedagogies for Excellence in VET: a Potential Model for Identification and Clustering of Relevant Practices

    3. Lucian Ciolan  Daniela Avarvare 

  3. The Centres of Vocational Excellence as the Way Forward to Future VET Ecosystems. A Case Study

    4. Paolo Nardi  Sanna Ryökkynen 

02 SES 10.5 A, NW 02 Network Meeting

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 12:15-13:15, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Barbara E. Stalder

  1. NW 02 Network Meeting

    2. Christof Nägele 

02 SES 11 A, Lifelong Learning & Higher Education

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Cristyn Davies

  1. Are We All Exceptional? Structures of Lifelong Learning in Comparative Perspective

    2. Lorenz Lassnigg 

  2. Rationales behind Vocational Education Students' Decision-Making Regarding Continuing on to Higher Education

    3. Alexandra Doroftei 

  3. Further Education and the UK’s Levelling Up Agenda

    4. Joanne Davies  Michael Donnelly 

02 SES 11 C, Theorising VET

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Franz Kaiser

  1. Theorising VET: European Differences, Commonalities and Contestation

    2. Bill Esmond  Franz Kaiser  James Avis 

  2. VET Research in the Anglosphere: A European Perspective

    3. Bill Esmond  Volker Wedekind 

  3. Neo-Institutionalism as a Complementary Theory for Internationalisation in VET

    4. Bill Esmond  Johannes Karl Schmees  Eli Smeplass 

  4. Theorising the Transition and Welfare state functions of the German VET System

    5. Bill Esmond  Christian Steib  Thilo J. Ketschau 

02 SES 11 B, Migration and Inclusion

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Marianne Teräs

  1. Migration, Work, Education, and Successful Inclusion

    2. Marianne Teräs  Natasha Kersh 

  2. Work place, Workplace Education and Education - Perceptions of Knowledge Requirement and Skills for Integration into Swedish Labour Market and Society

    3. Marianne Teräs  Åsa Broberg  Lázaro Moreno Herrera 

  3. Inclusion of Immigrant Professional Drivers in Educational Training in Norway – Perspective on Second Language and Cultural Challenges

    4. Marianne Teräs  Ellen Beate Hellne-Halvorsen  Tatjana Bru Blixen 

  4. Successful Integration of Refugees in Vocational Education and Training: Outcomes of the PAI Programme

    5. Marianne Teräs  Barbara E Stalder  Marlise Kammermann  Iris Michel  Marie-Theres Schönbächler 

  5. ‘Back to Work’—Factors Facilitating Migrants’ Re- Entry into Their Previous Vocations

    6. Marianne Teräs  Eva Eliasson  Ali Osman 

02 SES 12 A, Diversity (Part 1)

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Gavin Moodie

  1. Double Symposium on Diversity in the Social Role of Colleges - Part 1

    2. Gavin Moodie  Martin Henry 

  2. What Do Colleges Do and Why Do They Matter? The Role of Colleges as Local Actors; Comparing Australia and Canada

    3. Gavin Moodie  Leesa Wheelahan 

  3. On the Roles and Relations of Further Education Colleges in England

    4. Gavin Moodie  Gareth Parry 

  4. The Finnish UAS: Towards Enhancing Regional and National Collaboration

    5. Gavin Moodie  Maarit Virolainen 

02 SES 12 C, Success in VET

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Avihu Shoshana

  1. Supporting and Hindering Factors in Vocational Education and Training - A Cross-National Analysis of Young People’s Perspectives

    2. Marieke Bruin  Vidmantas Tutlys  Biruta Sloka  Meril Ûmarik 

  2. Analysis of Student Engagement in VET in the region of Valencia (Spain)

    3. Esperanza Meri  Almudena A. Navas Saurin  Míriam Abiétar  Joan Carles Bernad  Ana Córdoba  Elena Gimenez 

  3. Lived Experience of Youth in VET: "I Stopped Focusing The Past and Started Living the Present to Reach the Future"

    4. Nofar Eini  Avihu Shoshana 

02 SES 12 B, Recognition & VET audiovisuals

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Sonja Engelage

  1. The Birth of the “Work Grammar” Educational Documentary Film Format, in the Italian VET Context (1955-1965)

    2. Anselmo Roberto Paolone 

  2. Recognition of Prior Learning in Industrial Shoe Production

    3. Andreas Saniter  Vivian Harberts 

  3. The Recognition of Prior Learning at Professional Education Institutions in Switzerland

    4. Sonja Engelage  Carmen Baumeler  Christine Hämmerli  Patrizia Salzmann 

02 SES 12 D, Inclusive VET

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 1 [Floor 2], Chair: Jay Plasman

  1. A Review of Design Principles for Developing Vocational Skills of low-qualified Adults

    2. Bernd Gössling 

  2. Inclusive Vocational Education and Situation Definition

    3. Matthias Vonken  Patrick Schaar 

  3. Improving College Preparation for Students with Learning Disabilities through Engineering-focused Vocational Education

    4. Jay Plasman  Michael Gottfried  Filiz Oskay 

02 SES 13 B, Conventions of VET

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Christian Imdorf

  1. Conventions of Vocational Education and Training (VET). The Potential and Challenges of French Pragmatic Sociology for European VET Research

    2. Christian Imdorf  Philipp Gonon 

  2. Vocational Education and Training and Sociology of Conventions: Examining VET in Spain Through the Lens of the Sociology of Conventions

    3. Christian Imdorf  Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá 

  3. The Positioning of Company-Based VET in the Competition for High-Performing Pupils at Upper-Secondary Level in Switzerland: Strategies, Justifications and Sacrifices

    4. Christian Imdorf  Raffaella Simona Esposito 

  4. Skills versus Merit: A Pragmatic Sociological Analysis of Competences in Educational Research

    5. Christian Imdorf  Rebecca Ye  Erik Nylander 

02 SES 13 C, Counseling and Preventing Dropout

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Sanna Ryökkynen

  1. Difficulties of Young People in Vocational Education: Analyses of the Use of Counseling at Vocational Schools

    2. Silvia Pool Maag  Benno Rottermann 

  2. Preventing Dropout in Vocational Education: an Action Research Proposal from Self Determination Theory

    3. Arturo Garcia de Olalla  Elena Quintana Murci  Carme Pinya-Medina  Carlos Vecina-Merchante  Melania Roselina Ferreira-Puertas  Francesca Salvà-Mut 

  3. Finnish Vocational Students’ Perceptions of the Special Support in Their Studying

    4. Sanna Ryökkynen 

02 SES 13 D, Research agendas and forecasting models

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 1 [Floor 2], Chair: Simon McGrath

  1. A Regional Forecasting Tool to Estimate the Horizontal Mismatch between VET Supply and Labour Market Demand 2022 - 2030

    2. Mikel Albizu Echevarria  Mónica Moso-Diez  Juan Pablo Gamboa Navarro  Antonio Mondaca Soto 

  2. Transitioning Vocational Education and Training: towards a new research agenda

    3. Simon McGrath  Presha Ramsarup  Volker Wedekind  Jo-Anna Russon  Heila Lotz-Sisitka  David Monk 

  3. TVET Research in Costa Rica - Status, Challenges and Needs

    4. Irina Rommel  Enrique Angles 

02 SES 13 A, Diversity (Part 2)

Thursday, 2023-08-24, 17:15-18:45, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Gavin Moodie

  1. Double Symposium on Diversity in the Social Role of Colleges – Part 2

    2. Gavin Moodie  Martin Henry 

  2. Vocational Routes in France: The Difficult Articulation Between Pre-bac and Post-bac

    3. Gavin Moodie  Pauline David 

  3. Academization, Hybrid Qualifications and Skills Shortage – Competition and Complementarity Between Vocational and Higher Education in Germany

    4. Gavin Moodie  Silvia Annen 

  4. WITHDRAWN When Bureaucracy Combines with Quasi-Privatization: The Complexity of Institutional Forms of Vocational Colleges in South Africa

    5. Gavin Moodie  Stephanie Allais 

02 SES 14 C, Language in VET

Friday, 2023-08-25, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Gabriela Meier

  1. Language Education and Use in VET: Individual, Social and Educational Implications

    2. Gabriela Meier  Line Møller Daugaard 

  2. Multilingualism and Professional Socialisation of Apprentices in VET Programmes: A Case Study from Switzerland and Liechtenstein

    3. Gabriela Meier  Esther Styger 

  3. Oral Communication Skills in VET: Educators’ and Newly Arrived Immigrant Students’ Perceptions of Oracy Demands, Training and Assessment

    4. Gabriela Meier  Irmelin Kjelaas  Annete Brekke 

  4. Teaching Hairdressing Using English Materials in a Linguistically Diverse VET Classroom in Norway: Evaluating a Digital Learning Platform

    5. Gabriela Meier  Mari J. Wikhaug Andersen 

  5. Transition from an Introduction Class for Newly Arrived Migrants to a VET Programme - Experiences with First Language Use

    6. Gabriela Meier  Unni Soltun Andreassen 

02 SES 14 A, Generic and General Competencies

Friday, 2023-08-25, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Andreas Saniter

  1. Generic Skills in the 14-19 Curriculum: Policy Coherence and Teacher Status

    2. Charlynne Pullen  Mark Boylan 

  2. How Does the Learning Environment Support Vocational Student Learning of Domain-General Competencies?

    3. Sami Löfgren  Liisa Ilomäki  Jari Lipsanen  Auli Toom 

  3. Integrating General Subjects into Vocational Lessons Teaching in German VET-Schools

    4. Andreas Saniter  Ana Rovai 

02 SES 14 B, Where are the Occupations?

Friday, 2023-08-25, 09:00-10:30, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Philipp Grollmann

  1. Comparing Vocational Education - the Neglected Role of Occupations

    2. Philipp Grollmann  Barbara Stalder 

  2. A New Framework for Comparing Vocational Education and Training (VET)

    3. Philipp Grollmann  Jörg Markowitsch 

  3. “Occupation” as a neglected Category for VET Reforms

    4. Philipp Grollmann  Philipp Gonon  Lorenzo Bonoli 

  4. Theoretical Perspectives on Technological Change, Work and Occupations – Leading Academic Experts' Views

    5. Philipp Grollmann  Michael Tiemann 

  5. Occupations, Work Organisation and Occupational Practices – their Role in Comparative VET Research

    6. Philipp Grollmann 

02 SES 16 C, Learning Labs For at Risk Students

Friday, 2023-08-25, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Terje Väljataga

  1. Educational Learning Labs Interventions to Empower Young People at Risk for Social Exclusion in the Baltic Countries and Norway

    2. Terje Väljataga  Vidmantas Tūtlys  Meril Ümarik  Marieke Bruin  Biruta Sloka 

02 SES 16 A, Policy

Friday, 2023-08-25, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: Pauline David

  1. A Political Economy of Youth Policy in Mexico

    2. José Antonio Cervantes Gómez 

  2. Azerbaijan's VET Sector Transformation: The Impact of Policy Borrowing from the EU

    3. Majid Bayramli 

  3. Reforms of the Vocational Track in France: a real Distancing from the Academic Convention?

    4. Pauline David 

02 SES 16 B, Doing VET Related Research in Sustainable Development

Friday, 2023-08-25, 13:30-15:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Monica Moso-Diez

  1. Research on VET for Sustainable Development: A Shared/fragmented Research Framework?

    2. Monica Moso-Diez  Michael Gessler  Volker Wedekind  Paolo Nardi 

02 SES 17 C, Use Your knowledge

Friday, 2023-08-25, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 2 [Floor 2], Chair: Carlos van Kan

  1. Stimulating Educational Renewal by Identifying Knowledge Utilization Strategies

    2. Carlos van Kan  Patricia Brouwer  Merel Wolf  Marloes de Lange 

02 SES 17 A, Social Justice

Friday, 2023-08-25, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre A [Floor 4], Chair: James Avis

  1. Rethinking Skills Development and Entrepreneurship for Refugees: the case of five refugee communities

    2. Preeti Dagar 

  2. Perceptions of Discrimination by Migrants in Transition to VET - Differences by Origin Group and Gender

    3. Julia Hufnagl 

  3. In Pursuit of Equity Vocational Education and Training and Social Justice

    4. James Avis 

02 SES 17 B, Research in VET - An Organising Framework

Friday, 2023-08-25, 15:30-17:00, Room: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre B [Floor 4], Chair: Lázaro Moreno Herrera

  1. VET research framework

    2. Lázaro Moreno Herrera  Lorenz Lassnigg  Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá  Michael Gessler  Barbara E. Stalder  Christof Nägele 

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