The Future of Australian Vocational Education Qualifications Depends on a New Social Settlement

Autor/in	Wheelahan, Leesa
Titel	The Future of Australian Vocational Education Qualifications Depends on a New Social Settlement
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 28 (2015) 2, S.126-146 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2014.1001333
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Qualifications; Competency Based Education; Technical Education; Adult Education; Public Opinion; Social Attitudes; Social Systems; Free Enterprise System; Skill Development; Ecology; Labor Market; Educational Change; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstufe; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Technikunterricht; Adult; Adults; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Öffentliche Meinung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Social system; Soziales System; Freie Wirtschaft; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Ökologie; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Bildungsreform; Australien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01