History of Vocational Education and Training in Europe

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

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.

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