Session Information
02 SES 14 A, 30th Anniversary VETNET Research Workshop: What has been the core of VET Research? Learnings from the Past
Research Workshop
Contribution
It is the 30th anniversary of VETNET as network 02 at the ECER. Two research workshops are dedicated to this circumstance; one is looking back, one forward.
In this first workshop, we use VETNET publications from the last 30 years to reflect on emerging, lasting and disappearing themes, methods and impacts.
What made VETNET one of the largest networks at the ECER some years ago? Which topics coined it? And how does this relate to research at the boundary of learning and work (Gessler et al., 2021)? How did political agendas affect the research contents reflected in the VETNET contributions? How did research methods evolve?
For our discussion, we use publications from the first Proceedings from the ECER in 1998 in Ljubljana, edited by Martin Mulder, and the Proceedings of the ECER 1999 in Lahti, edited by Johanna Lasonen, Sabine Manning, Martin Mulder and Jan Streumer. These are to our knowledge the first papers published based on presentations at the ECER. Additionally, we rely on the collection of papers and presentations by Sabine Manning, and the series Trends in Vocational Education and Training, starting in 2018, initiated by Christof Nägele and Barbara E. Stalder. Moreover, we use data from a database with all abstracts from ECER since 1998 to extract topics and methods that were brought into and discussed within the network. The database is a project run by the EERA and ECER network 12, Open Research in Education.
Trends in Vocational Education and Traiing 2026 Tampere – 2025 Belgrade – 2024 Nicosia – 2023 Glasgow – 2022 Yerevan – 2021 Geneva – 2020Glasgow – 2019 Hamburg – 2018 Bolzano/Bozen
Method
Analyses of existing data.
Expected Outcomes
Based on this available data, we will extract and discuss exemplary papers and developments in VETNET. Besides of looking back in history and to indulge in nostalgia, we aim to discuss the significance of these contributions for VETNET and VET research from today’s perspective. Doing so, we want to learn which topics and methods could be of interest in the future.
References
Gessler, M., Nägele, C., & Stalder, B. E. (2021). Scoping review on research at the boundary between learning and working: A bibliometric mapping analysis of the last decade. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 8(4), 170–206. https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.8.4.8 Lasonen, J., Manning, S., Mulder, M., & Streuner, J. (Eds). (1999). Conference Proceedings ECER 1999, 22-25 September, Lahti, Finland. Network on Vocational Education and Training Research (VETNET) and Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). Mulder, M. (Ed.). (1998). Proceedings of the VETNET program at the ECER conference on 17-20 September 1998 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. VETNET. Trends in Vocational Education and Training: 2026 Tampere – 2025 Belgrade – 2024 Nicosia – 2023 Glasgow – 2022 Yerevan – 2021 Geneva – 2020Glasgow – 2019 Hamburg – 2018 Bolzano/Boze
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