Country Size and Educational Change: Comparing Reforms of Skill Formation in Germany and Switzerland.

Autor/in	Graf, Lukas
Titel	Country Size and Educational Change: Comparing Reforms of Skill Formation in Germany and Switzerland. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Landesgröße und Bildungswandel: Reformen der Qualifizierung in Deutschland und der Schweiz im Vergleich.
Quelle	Aus: Nägele, C. (Hrsg.); Stalder, B. E. (Hrsg.); Weich, M. (Hrsg.): Pathways in Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning. Proceedings of the 4th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training, Muttenz and Bern online, 8. - 9. April 2021. European Research Network Vocational Education and Training (2021) S. 141-146 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
DOI	10.5281/zenodo.4608711
Schlagwörter	Bildungsreform; Berufsbildung; Qualifikationsstruktur; Qualifikationswandel; Duales Ausbildungssystem; Internationaler Vergleich; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Institution; Schweiz
Abstract	"This conference paper argues that country size can play a crucial role in shaping the type of gradual change observed in collective skill formation systems. Collectively governed dual-apprenticeship training has its base in the industrial and crafts sectors of the economy and builds on the decentralized cooperation of multiple public and private stakeholders. As a result, it tends to be strongly path dependent, which favours gradual over radical forms of change. However, in recent years, dual-apprenticeship training has been increasingly challenged by the rise of the knowledge and service economy and the growing popularity of academic forms of education. In this context, I compare policy responses in Switzerland and Germany, which represent one small and one large collective skill formation system respectively. The historical-institutionalist analysis finds that the dominant trajectory of change is conversion in Switzerland but layering in Germany, with different implications for the future viability of collective skill formation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/1