The future of Australian vocational education qualifications depends on a new social settlement

被引:14
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作者
Wheelahan, Leesa [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Community Coll Leadership, Ontario Inst Studies Educ, Dept Leadership Higher & Adult Educ, Toronto, ON, Canada
关键词
vocational education and training; social settlement; competency-based training; labour market;
D O I
10.1080/13639080.2014.1001333
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
This article argues that the current social settlement underpinning vocational education and training (VET) in Australia is fractured. The current settlement is low trust and consists of qualifications based on competency-based training models of curriculum and competitive markets. The result is narrow qualifications that do not prepare people for jobs associated with the qualifications, and the decimation of technical and further education (TAFE) institutes which are the public providers of VET. The article develops a conceptual framework by integrating various literatures that are broadly consistent with institutionalist theories, including the Varieties of Capitalism literature, Raffe's and colleagues model of intrinsic and institutional logics, and literatures on skills ecosystems and educational and labour market transitions. This analysis shows why VET has such a low status in Anglophone liberal market economies. A new social settlement is needed that recognises the diverse purposes played by VET qualifications, underpinned by a differentiated model of VET qualifications that does not tie the outcomes of learning so tightly to particular occupations. Such a model would recognise that some qualifications will have tighter links to occupations than others.
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页码:126 / 146
页数:21
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