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Dovemark, Marianne; Beach, Dennis – Ethnography and Education, 2016
A demand on national economies in the 1970s was that they should begin to increase their labour market flexibility, which came to mean transferring risks and insecurity onto workers. Education was one way to prepare future workers for this new situation. The present article examines this preparation of learning for precarity some 40 years on. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Academic Education, Vocational Education
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Rosvall, Per-Åke; Hjelmér, Carina; Lappalainen, Sirpa – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Vocational education has a historical legacy of being low-status and aimed at producing skilled workers. Students with low marks in comprehensive school are still often guided to the vocational educational track. In this article we examine how mathematics teaching in a vocational educational context is framed (henceforth VET). Therefore, our aim…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers