History of Vocational Education and Training in Europe

Esther Berner is a reasearch associate at the University of Zurich, Chair of of Vocational Education and Training. In 2010 she received her PhD from the University of Zurich with a thesis in the field of 18th-century school history. From 2012 to 2015 she held an interim professorship for Education Theory and Research at the University of Potsdam. Her research interests focus on the history of education, including VET, discourse history of pedagogical theories, knowledge and practices.Philipp Gonon is Professor of Vocational Education and Training at Zurich University, where he teaches vocational pedagogy, history and theory of (vocational) education, quality assurance and program evaluation at graduate and undergraduate level. From 1986 until 1992 he was research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Bern. From 1999 until 2004 he served as a Full University Professor of Vocational Further Education at the University of Trier in Germany.

• Esther Berner/Philipp Gonon: Introduction to a History of Vocational Education and Training in Europe: Cases, Concepts and Challenges – Eric Verdier: The Social Conventions of Guidance as a Major Component of Lifelong Learning Systems. A French-Danish-British Comparison – Esther Berner/Philipp Gonon/Christian Imdorf: The Genesis of Vocational Education in Switzerland from the Perspective of Justification Theory: On the Development of a Dual Vocational Education Model in the Cantons of Geneva and Lucerne – Marius R. Busemeyer: The Political Economy of Educational and Vocational Training Reforms in Western Europe from a Historical Perspective – Philipp Gonon: The Pathway to the Swiss Federal Vocational Baccalaureate – Mathias Götzl/Thilo J. Ketschau: The Antagonism in Commercial Training: Vocational and Liberal Education. The Development of the Commercial School of the Trade Guild Hall in Gotha (1817–1902) – Lorenz Lassnigg: ‘Muddling Through’ Once Again: The Long Term Development of the Dualistic Austrian VET System – Eveline Wittmann: Vocational School Policy in Germany in the Context of Securing State Legitimacy – Åsa Broberg: Negotiating the Pedagogical Value of School and Work: A Historical Perspective on Pedagogical Development in Swedish VET – Esther Berner: On the Genealogy of the Subject of Industrial Work: Training and Testing as Subjectification Practices (1900–1935) – Manfred Wahle: Every Picture Tells a Story. Historical Research on Vocational Education and Training – Anja Heikkinen: Vocational Education: For Livelihood, Knowledge or Companionship? – Elisabeth Flitner: Policy for the Middle Classes vs. the Vichy Dictatorship. A Comparison of the Origins of State-Controlled Education for Workers in Germany and France – Gérard Bodé: Seeking Models: Germany or France? Where the Paradise of Vocational Training Was to Be Found in 1860-1940 – Antoine Vernet: Solving the Crisis. VET as an Economic Policy (France, from the Long Depression to the Second Oil Crisis) – Christian Helms Jørgensen/Svein Michelsen/Jonas Olofsson/Daniel Persson Thunqvist: Same, but Different – The Emergence of VET in Three Nordic Countries – Marja-Leena Stenström/Maarit Virolainen: Towards the Enhancement of School-Based VET in Finland – Svein Michelsen: The Case of Norwegian VET – Origins and Early Development 1860–1930 – Tobias Karlsson/Fay Lundh Nilsson/Anders Nilsson: Modern Apprenticeship and Teknikcollege: Historical Roots of Two Current Features of Swedish Vocational Education – Lorenzo Bonoli: The Development of Statistics in the VET Domain in Switzerland: Issues and Difficulties between 1880 and 1930 – Philipp Eigenmann/Michael Geiss: There Is No Outside to the System: Paternalism and Protest in Swiss Vocational Education and Training, 1950–1980 – Chiara Martinelli: Schools for Workers? Industrial and Artistic Industrial Schools in Italy (1861–1913) – Friedhelm Schütte: Educational Systems Research: Intention, Scope, Desiderata. A Vocational-Pedagogy and Historical Comment – Simone Haasler: The German VET System and Labour Market Segregation by Gender: A Historical Perspective – Håkon Høst: The Integration of Female-Dominated VET Programmes in Health and Social Care into the Common Collective Skills System in Norway – Andreas Saniter/Vidmantas Tutlys: Comparison of Historical Development Pathways of Initial Vocational Education and Training in Lithuania and Germany: How Does History Matter for Policy Learning? – Linda Clarke/Jörn Janssen: Explaining Diverging VET Systems and Approaches in the Post-War Construction Sector: The Examples of Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany – Ana-Inés Renta-Davids/Manel Fandos-Garrido: Evolution and Challenges of the Spanish VET System: From a School-Based to a Work-Based Approach – Bettina Siecke: Permeability in Two-Year Training Occupations in Germany: From Basic Training to Promotion of Lifelong Learning: a View at Historical and Current Developments.

"Der vorliegende Band veranschaulicht auf eindruckliche Weise, dass es ohne die historische Analyse der Entwicklungen beruflicher Bildung in all ihren Facetten nicht moglich ist, den in Europa vorhandenen Variantenreichtum an Modellen und Systemen zu verstehen und in den jeweiligen Kontexten fortentwickeln zu konnen. [...] Insbesondere unter "Concepts" bietet der Band eine Palette an wertvollen theoretischen Ansatzen fur zukunftige historische Analysen der Berufsbildung." (Markus Wochnik, H / SOZ / KULT 6.2.2017)