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Demands-Based and Employer-Driven Curricula: Defining Knowledge in Higher Vocational Education and Training
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Köpsén, Johanna – Studies in Continuing Education, 2020
Access to, and participation in, higher education is expanding. Commonalities in the organisation of this expansion are distinctive vocational pathways, liberal marketisation and significant employer influence. However, whether this expanded access to higher education in vocational pathways is contributing to opportunities of social mobility for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Social Mobility
The Vocational-Academic Divide in Neoliberal Upper Secondary Curricula: The Swedish Case
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Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke; Ledman, Kristina – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
A historical tension between a more general and a more specific focus in post-compulsory education is made visible in some educational systems by the division into more academic and more vocational programmes. Embedded in this tension are questions of social justice and the purposes of education. In addition, division into academic and vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Vocational Education
The Function of Schools for the Mentally Retarded in a Labour Market Perspective. Project Number 6371.
Rosenqvist, Jerry; Vallberg, Ann-Christine – School Research Newsletter, 1989
The newsletter issue presents the results of a project that examined: (1) teaching at the senior level of schools for the mentally retarded in Sweden; (2) teachers' and supervisors' views of the pupils; and (3) the reality of the open labor market. The project analyzed mechanisms in and outside teaching that prevent or impede access to the labor…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Practices, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential
Larande I Produktionssytem. En studie av operatorsarbete i hogautomatiserad process--och verkstadsindustri = Learning in Production Systems. A Study of Operator Work in Highly Automated Process and Manufacturing Industry. Linkoping Studies in Education and Psychology, No. 63.
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Davidson, Bo; Svedin, Per-Olof – 1999
This study of the conditions of developmental on-the-job training and learning for operators in highly automated industries is written in Swedish but contains an English abstract and 18-page summary. The summary begins with the study objectives, which were to determine the following: (1) conditions of developmental on-the-job learning in highly…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Automation, Case Studies, Competence