Vocational Education beyond Skill Formation

Fernando Marhuenda is University Professor of Didactics and School Organization at the Universitat de València, Spain. He coordinates a research group on Transitions from Education into Employment for Vulnerable People. He lectures on Social Education and Teacher Education, and has been visiting scholar in Wisconsin-Madison, Rochester, Mainz, Augsburg and London.

• Fernando Marhuenda: Vocational Education, Labor and Citizenship: The Working Class, the Workforce and the Provision of Qualifications from Early to Contemporary Capitalism – 2. Lorenzo Bonoli: An Ambiguous Identity. The figure of the Apprentice from the XIX Century up to Today in Switzerland – Chiara Martinelli: A School for the Many but Attended by the Few: Industrial and Artistic Industrial Schools in Regional and National Data – Esther Berner: Citizenship and Participation: Apprenticeship as a Political Issue in the Swiss VET Debate in the 1970s/80s – Ida Juul: The Twin Aspiration of Danish Craftsmen to Maintain their Traditional Privileges and Be Accepted as Respectable Members of the Emerging Bourgeois Society – Kenneth Teitelbaum: Citizenship, Workers Education and Radical Activism in Early 20th Century United States – Germán Gil: Education and Work in the Libertarian Thinking of 19th and Early 20th Century Spain – Burkhard Volmers/Werner Kuhlmeier: Implementation of Sustainability into Germany ìs VET System by Means of Model Projects: A Review on the Years 2005 to 2015 – Patricia Olmos: The Role of VET into Social Participation and Self Determination of Disabled People as Full Citizens – Katerina Arkoudi-Vafea: Students of Vocational Education Centers in Greece and Financial Crisis – Tania Brabo: The Recent History of Vocational Education in Brazil: The Qualification of the Workforce and its Empowerment through Criticism and Mobilization – Vicente Palop: VET Challenges in Local Development: the UDATMA Case in Ecuador – Lea Zehnder/Philipp Gonon: Civic and Market Convention as Driving Forces of the Development of Swiss VET – Thomas Deissinger/Daniela Gremm: The Status of VET in Canada: Evidence from Literature and Qualitative Research – María José Chisvert/Ana Córdoba: Validation and Accreditation of Qualifications and Citizenship: a Method to Guarantee Social Equity in Spain – Míriam Abiétar/Fernando Marhuenda/Almudena Navas: The Ambiguous Role of Basic VET upon Social Inclusion: A Participatory Perspective on Social Justice – Liv Mjelde: Learning through Praxis and Cooperation. Lev Vigotski and Vocational Pedagogy – Anja Heikkinen/Perpetua Kalimasi/Elisabeth Opit/Jesse Sjelvgren: Promoting Basic Social and Health Care Work through Education: Global North and Global South in Comparison – Lorenz Lassnig/Stephan Vogtenhuber: VET Producing Second Class Citizens? Comparative Analyses of the VET and Tertiary Education Nexus