Conference Agenda

Between Myth and Reality: the True Inclusive Impact of the Dual Model

School Leaving Certificates and Dual Vocational Education and Training - The Role of Firms as Gatekeeper in Germany

Linking Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with Higher Education, and possible Consequences for Development Cooperation

The Decision to Combine Initial and Continuing Vocational Education and Training: Narrowing the Structure and Purpose of Finnish VET?

Student Perceptions of Different Learning Trajectories in Dutch VET

Way Forward from Ground Zero: Identifying Stakeholder Views for VET Curriculum Development Model in Agriculture for Northern Part of Cyprus.

Implementing the Competence-Based Approach in Chinese and Russian Vocational Curricula: Lessons Learned From Teacher Interviews and Classroom Observations

Distinction or Distinctiveness: Making Sense of Diversity in Education for High Skills

Application Patterns at Upper Secondary Educational Level Over Time as a Manifestation of the Standing of Vocational Education

Determinants and Fulfilment of Individual Work Values Within the Vocational Choice Process – The Role of Social Background

Finding the Way into VET – Career Education

Literacy for Labour - Realised Curriculum of the School Subject of Literacy in Competency-based VET in Finlan

Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development in Berlin's "Flagship Schools": A Transformative Design-Based Research Project

Neutral VET in a Polarising World? Teachers’ Pedagogical Approaches to Addressing Controversial Global Issues in Upper Secondary VET in Finland

Observation-Based and Collaborative Learning in Lower Secondary VET. The Case of Hungary and Poland.

Youths Struggling the Transition to VET: Their Profile and Needed Key Competencies – Perspectives from an Estonian Preparatory VET Program

Teacher Training and Empowerment as a Tool to Meet the Challenges of an Inclusive School in rural school

Innovative and Inclusive Pedagogies for Excellence in VET: a Potential Model for Identification and Clustering of Relevant Practices

The Centres of Vocational Excellence as the Way Forward to Future VET Ecosystems. A Case Study

Migration, Work, Education, and Successful Inclusion

Chair: Marianne Teräs

Discussant: Natasha Kersh

Presentations of the Symposium

Work place, Workplace Education and Education - Perceptions of Knowledge Requirement and Skills for Integration into Swedish Labour Market and Society

Åsa Broberg, Lázaro Moreno Herrera

Inclusion of Immigrant Professional Drivers in Educational Training in Norway – Perspective on Second Language and Cultural Challenges

Tatjana Bru Blixen, Ellen Beate Hellne-Halvorsen

Successful Integration of Refugees in Vocational Education and Training: Outcomes of the PAI Programme

Barbara E Stalder, Marlise Kammermann, Iris Michel, Marie-Theres Schönbächler

‘Back to Work’—Factors Facilitating Migrants’ Re- Entry into Their Previous Vocations

Eva Eliasson, Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman

The Birth of the “Work Grammar” Educational Documentary Film Format, in the Italian VET Context (1955-1965)

Recognition of Prior Learning in Industrial Shoe Production

The Recognition of Prior Learning at Professional Education Institutions in Switzerland

Conventions of Vocational Education and Training (VET). The Potential and Challenges of French Pragmatic Sociology for European VET Research

Chair: Christian Imdorf

Discussant: Philipp Gonon

Presentations of the Symposium

Vocational Education and Training and Sociology of Conventions: Examining VET in Spain Through the Lens of the Sociology of Conventions

Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá

The Positioning of Company-Based VET in the Competition for High-Performing Pupils at Upper-Secondary Level in Switzerland: Strategies, Justifications and Sacrifices

Raffaella Simona Esposito

Skills versus Merit: A Pragmatic Sociological Analysis of Competences in Educational Research

Rebecca Ye, Erik Nylander

Comparing Vocational Education - the Neglected Role of Occupations

Chair: Philipp Grollmann

Discussant: Barbara Stalder

Presentations of the Symposium

A New Framework for Comparing Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Jörg Markowitsch

“Occupation” as a neglected Category for VET Reforms

Philipp Gonon, Lorenzo Bonoli

Theoretical Perspectives on Technological Change, Work and Occupations – Leading Academic Experts' Views

Michael Tiemann

Occupations, Work Organisation and Occupational Practices – their Role in Comparative VET Research

Philipp Grollmann

Research on VET for Sustainable Development: A Shared/fragmented Research Framework?

VET research framework