Challenges and Reforms in Vocational Education

Stefanie Stolz is a research associate and lecturer at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include vocational education, school-to-work transition and policy analyses in a comparative perspective.Philipp Gonon is a professor of vocational education at the University of Zurich. His research interests include international comparative VET and further education, philosophy and history of (vocational) education and quality assurance and evaluation.

• Contents: Stefanie Stolz/Philipp Gonon: Inclusion and Exclusion - A Challenge in the Context of Globalisation – Gita Steiner-Khamsi: Education Policy in a Globalized World – Stephen Billett: Vocational Education and Training, Culture and Self: Dominant Interests, Diverse Traditions and Vocational Education in Globalised Times – Philippe Méhaut: Three Challenges for the VET Systems: The End or the Rebirth of Vocational Education? – Anja Heikkinen/Johanna Lammela/Leena Lietzén/Johanna Lätti/Emma Virtanen: Gender Mainstreaming: Inclusion or Exclusion – Patricia A. Carter: Gender Mainstreaming: Implications for Inclusion and Exclusion in Employability and Vocational Education and Training – Ida Juul: The Transformation of Office Work from a Male to a Female Occupation – Beatrix Niemeyer: The Impacts of European Social Inclusion Policy on National Educational Systems – Maija Hirvonen: Towards Inclusion? Vocational Special Needs Education from a Historical Perspective – Julian Stanley: Diplomas and Inclusion – Mikiko Eswein: The Present and Future Role of Vocational Education and Training in Japan Under the Aspect of Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalised World – Svein Michelsen/Håkon Høst: Apprenticeship, Youth and Labour Market Outcomes - A Diachronic Investigation into the Norwegian Case – Antje Barabasch/Bonnie Watt-Malcolm: Merging Academic and Vocational Learning: Inclusion and Exclusion in Selected School-to-Work Programs in Canada and the United States – Bettina Siecke: Transition from Vocational Education and Training to Higher Education in Germany and Switzerland - A Perspective of Social Inclusion and Exclusion – Matthias Pilz: Vocational Training as the Roundabout Route from Abitur to University – Vesa Korhonen: Towards Inclusive Higher Education? - Outlining a Student-Centred Counselling Framework for Strengthening Student Engagement – Antoni Lindgren: Reflections on the Art of Exclusion.