Governance and Marketisation in Vocational and Continuing Education

Globalisation and individualisation, decreasing public means, political strategies of de-centralisation, increasing participation of social groups and growing markets are discussed as main aspects of the current changes in vocational and continuing education. A comprehensive and integrating theoretical concept of analysis and understanding of these changes is widely missing, but necessary for a supra-national level of observation and comparison. The book includes a survey on this segment of education in several European countries, Australia and the USA. The folio of analysis and comparision is given by the concept of governance, which allows a theoretical and empirical approach to the field of vocational and adult education. The contributions line out governance and marketisation strategies in an international, national and sectoral perspective and give a frame of perception and interpretation on a general level.

Autorentext

The Editors: Rudolf Husemann is Professor for Adult Education at the University of Erfurt. His main subjects are adult and vocational education in the context of biography, labour market and industrial change, regional and comparative aspects. Anja Heikkinen is Professor for Adult Education at the University of Jyväskula, Finland. Her main subjects are adult and vocational education in the historical and comparative perspective. She is the co-ordinator of EUROVET, the international network of history and culture in vocational education. She has published several books, e.g. Life long learning, One Focus, Different Systems, Peter Lang 2002.

Inhalt

Contents: Rudolf Husemann/Anja Heikkinen: Preface - Rudolf Husemann/Maija Vesala-Husemann: Governance as a Model of Analysis and Driving Force for Vocational and Adult Education - Katrin Kraus: Education, Social Policy and Governance - An Analysis of the Third Way - Leena Koski: Female Entrepreneurs in the Learning Society - Anja Heikkinen: The Making of Europe of the Learning Organisations - Terri Seddon: The Impact of Globalisation and Marketisation on Vocational Education: A Governance Perspective on Education Change - Stephen Drodge: Institutional, Local, Regional and National Dynamics in the new English Skill System - Svein Michelsen/Håkon Høst: Building the New Governance in Norwegian Apprenticeship Organisation - Richard D. Lakes: Marketing Schools as Local Partners: Vocational Education and the Charter School Model in a USA Setting - Liv Mjelde/Richard Daly: Development and Contradictions in the Norwegian VET Reforms of the 1990s as Reflected in the Fields of the Buildung Trades and Hairdressing - Ole Johnny Olsen: The Firm as a Place of Learning in Vocational Education. Results from Studies of Norwegian VET - Markus Weil: 'The Learning Region' in Germany - Regional Networks as the New Forms of Governance in Adult Learning? A Case Study - Beatrix Niemeyer: Marketisation vs. Education? - A Case Study on the Micro Level of a German Programme for Vocational Preparation.