The Future Potential of Vocational Education and Training: Strengthening VET for the next generation
7th International VET Congress
2-4 February 2022 - Bern/Zollikofen, Switzerland
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 04/Feb/2022 | |||
| 8:45am - 9:00am |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote 4: Prof Dr Lukas Graf Location: Plenary Hall Chair: Peter SCHLÖGL Vocational Education and Training in the Knowledge Economy: Comparing Pathways of Change in Switzerland and GermanyVocational education and training (VET) systems are challenged by the rise of the knowledge and service economy, related changes in production models and workplaces, and, more generally, the growing popularity of academic forms of education. Moreover, European educational policies call for a greater permeability between VET and higher education. This is especially challenging for countries in which VET and higher education traditionally display a relatively strong institutional separation. However, achieving structural reforms in VET systems is demanding. This applies in particular to collectively governed dual-apprenticeship training that has its base in the industrial and crafts sectors of the economy and builds on a long-standing tradition of decentralised cooperation of multiple public and private stakeholders. As a result, it tends to be path-dependent, which favours gradual over radical forms of change. In view of the rise of the knowledge and service economy and the growing popularity of academic forms of education, this keynote analyses policy responses in Switzerland and Germany. How do these systems react to the challenges related to the rise of the knowledge and service economy? The historical institutionalist analysis finds that in adjusting collective skill formation to the knowledge economy, distinct pathways of gradual change are evolving in otherwise relatively similar systems. The dominant pattern of change tends to be the reinterpretation of institutions (conversion) in Switzerland but the addition of new institutions on top of old ones (layering) in Germany, with different implications for the future viability of collective skill formation. The comparison also shows that Switzerland features a more consensual approach to reform. The analysis indicates that country size – both in terms of geography and population – is a key factor underlying the type of change observed, contributing to the discussion of general scope conditions for educational policy reform. The presentation concludes with a reflection on the broader relevance and practical implications of these findings. |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee-Break |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Paper Session 6A: Mobility and school-to-work transitions Location: Room 1 Chair: Daniela ROHRBACH-SCHMIDT Changes in the Returns to Education at Entry into the Labour Market in West Germany Improved Prospects for a Smooth School-to-Work Transition? Transition Patterns and Turbulence of Disadvantaged School Leavers in Germany in Times of Increasing Demand for Trainees The effect of training firm conditions on educational success Educational homogamy as a socio-institutional influencing factor of VET in the pandemic and post-pandemic time (based on results of international comparative analysis) |
Paper Session 6B: Workplace learning Location: Room 2 Chair: Marina FIORI A multinational study on training approaches and digital technologies adopted by the companies in disruptive changes Knowing, acting, developing: curricular orientations and competence concepts along the curricula revisions of Switzerland’s commercial VET Bricklaying and automation technology apprentices in Switzerland: restrictive and expansive participation in companies and vocational identity |
Paper Session 6C: Future skills and competences Location: Room 3 Chair: Antje BARABASCH Is the dual vet System on the scrap heap? Reframing VET by strengthening competence for diversity. Findings from a comparative analysis Germany and Switzerland Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Computing and Hospitality – Findings from an Explorative Access. Conceptualizations of Creativity in VET |
| Paper Session 6D: International VET systems Location: Room 4 Chair: Lorenzo BONOLI Evolutionary trajectories of dual systems in Europe: the risk of reproducing inequalities How does Vocational Education and Training in Norway ensure a sustainable system to meet social inequality among students? Vocational Training Pathways in Spain: the paradox of catching up dropouts |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch At 12:30pm in Hyhyve: - Meet researchers on digital learning in room 2 at the smoothy bar For more information on Hyhyve, please visit the VET Congress website. |
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| 1:00pm - 1:40pm |
Best Paper Award Location: Plenary Hall |
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| 1:45pm - 3:15pm |
Paper Session 7A: Returns to education Location: Room 1 Chair: Filippo PUSTERLA IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations Do wage scarring effects depend on the type of workers’ skills? How IT progress affects specialization and social skills in the labor market The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on hiring trainees and training wages |
Paper Session 7B: Digitalisation and School Location: Room 2 Chair: Alberto A. CATTANEO Digitized Organizational Development at Vocational Schools - Strengthening for the Future in Interaction between Multidimensional Actors Same, but different? Perspectives of School Management and Teachers on Digital Transformation in Vocational Schools in Switzerland Fostering vocational action competences through digital scenario-based learning environments: an exploratory study with pharmacy assistant apprentices Social Media in Vocational Education and Training Research – Insights from a Media Ethnography |
Symposium 5: New Learning Cultures Location: Room 3 Chair: Antje BARABASCH Discussant: Patric RAEMY Negotiating New Professional Roles in Retail’s Workplace Training. Applying the Negotiative Theory of Roles to a VET Context. How does digitalization influence the learning ecosystems within two pharmaceutical training providers? Coaching in vocational education and training: Results of a case study and their implications Transferable Competences as a Success Factor in Apprenticeship |
| 3:20pm - 3:30pm |
Farewell Location: Plenary Hall |
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