Challenges and Reforms in Vocational Education

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.

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.