Origin and Trajectories of Secondary Vocational Education and Training in Portugal: The New Normality in the Context of the Coronavirus Disease Framed in a European Scenario

Autor/inn/en	Silva, Fernando Rodrigues; Pinto, António
Titel	Origin and Trajectories of Secondary Vocational Education and Training in Portugal: The New Normality in the Context of the Coronavirus Disease Framed in a European Scenario
Quelle	In: European Journal of Educational Management, 6 (2023) 1, S.45-58 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Silva, Fernando Rodrigues) ORCID (Pinto, António)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary Education; Vocational Education; Secondary School Students; Educational History; Public Schools; Employment Qualifications; Enrollment Rate; COVID-19; Pandemics; Cultural Differences; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Barriers; Portugal; European Union + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarbereich; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Sekundarschüler; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Kultureller Unterschied; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This article approaches secondary Vocational Education & Training (VET) in Portugal from a historical-educational perspective, namely the professional courses introduced in 2004 in public secondary schools. Its implementation aimed to obtain a qualified technical workforce and to fight against the high failure rate and school dropouts registered in technological courses. It was also proposed, to complete 12-year compulsory education, qualifying students for the exercise of a profession as level IV technicians of the national qualifications framework (NQF). As a result, the number of students enrolled in this modality has progressed from a residual value of 10% in 2004 to 39.7% in 2018. On average, its attendance in the European Union (EU) was 54.6%, with special emphasis on Finland and the Czech Republic, whose indicators were, 71.6% and 71.3%. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic came the unplanned closure of schools in the spring of 2020, imposed to protect the well-being of society, but which caused discontinuities. This research concludes by taking into account professional education in Portugal and the EU in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, also considering the opinion of educational actors (course directors, teachers, and students) on the functioning of VET in Portugal. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01