@article{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Critic of Amy Gutmann - The Constructive Potential of Communitarian Values for Liberalism}, series = {Sic et Non - Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Philosophie und Kultur}, volume = {1}, journal = {Sic et Non - Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Philosophie und Kultur}, issn = {1431-2395}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/http://sicetnon.org/index.php/sic/article/view/153}, pages = {7}, abstract = {The view of Amy Gutmann is that communitarians have been unsuccessful in undermining liberalism. However, she thinks that their work presents a welcome challenge to it. In her opinion, the communitarian criticism, rather than giving good reason to abandon liberalism, is of use in an attempt to discover a liberalism that successfully combines communitarian with liberal values. This paper examines the extent to which Gutmann successfully shows that communitarian values, like kinship, affection, or a sense of common purpose, have the latent but unrealized capacity to serve to improve liberalism.}, language = {en} } @article{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Theories of Knowledge - Is a Naturalised Epistemology Bound to Leave Unanswered Some Important Epistemological Questions?}, series = {Tabula Rasa - Jenenser Zeitschrift f{\"u}r kritisches Denken}, volume = {21}, journal = {Tabula Rasa - Jenenser Zeitschrift f{\"u}r kritisches Denken}, number = {1}, issn = {0947-8485}, language = {en} } @incollection{BathmakerGrafOrretal., author = {Bathmaker, Ann-Marie and Graf, Lukas and Orr, Kevin and Powell, Justin and Webb, Sue and Wheelahan, Leesa}, title = {Higher level vocational education: The route to high skills and productivity as well as greater equity? An international comparative analysis}, series = {Trends in vocational education and training research. Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Research 2018}, booktitle = {Trends in vocational education and training research. Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Research 2018}, editor = {N{\"a}gele, Christof and Barbara E., Stalder}, publisher = {Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET)}, address = {Bolzano}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1319718}, pages = {53 -- 60}, abstract = {This international comparative analysis of higher level vocational education examines devel-opments across five countries: England, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the USA. The au-thors consider how current developments address two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means of achieving economic competitiveness and raising productivity; and the promise of increasing access for students hitherto excluded from higher education. We address these questions in relation to specific country contexts, in order to highlight similarities and differences in developments within the European arena and in a wider global context. We locate our analyses in an understanding of the different political and socio-economic conditions within different countries, which render particular reforms and innovations both possible and realiza-ble in one context, but almost unthinkable in another. We argue for the need to recognize and embrace diversity in provision, while using comparison across countries as a means of chal-lenging taken-for-granted assumptions of how things are and what is possible within individual country contexts. Such comparative analysis is a prerequisite for answering questions of policy transfer and learning from others.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BernhardGrafPowell, author = {Bernhard, Nadine and Graf, Lukas and Powell, Justin J. W.}, title = {Auswirkungen des neuen europ{\"a}ischen Bildungsmodells auf die Verkn{\"u}pfung zwischen Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Deutschland, {\"O}sterreich und Frankreich}, series = {Europ{\"a}ischer Bildungsraum. Europ{\"a}isierungsprozesse in Bildungspolitik und Bildungspraxis}, booktitle = {Europ{\"a}ischer Bildungsraum. Europ{\"a}isierungsprozesse in Bildungspolitik und Bildungspraxis}, editor = {Amos, Karin and Schmid, Josef and Schrader, Josef and Thiel, Ansgar}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Baden-Baden}, isbn = {978-3-8487-0841-3}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {175 -- 192}, language = {de} } @incollection{EbnerGrafNikolai, author = {Ebner, Christian and Graf, Lukas and Nikolai, Rita}, title = {New Institutional Linkages between Dual Vocational Training and Higher Education - A Comparative Analysis of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland}, series = {Integration and Inequality in Education Institutions}, booktitle = {Integration and Inequality in Education Institutions}, editor = {Michael, Windzio}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, isbn = {978-94-007-6118-6}, doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-6119-3_14}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {281 -- 298}, abstract = {Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have traditionally provided a large proportion of their workforces with qualifications obtained in the dual vocational training system. However, due to the growing demand for abstract and codified knowledge, all three countries aim at increasing the permeability and individual mobility between the dual training sector and the higher education system. In this chapter we analyse the ways in which Germany, Austria and Switzerland have tried to establish institutional linkages between dual vocational training and higher education. We begin by discussing options for creating such linkages: (1.) upgrading of vocational education and training courses, (2.) introducing dual courses of study, (3.) facilitating attendance of general upper secondary schools for people with vocational qualifications, (4.) enabling the parallel acquisition of a dual vocational training qualification and a higher education entrance qualification, (5.) allowing admission to higher education on the basis of prior dual vocational training qualifications and a certain amount of work experience, and (6.) recognising prior learning as an element in higher education programmes. Our analysis shows that, recently, Germany has relied strongly on the admission to higher education based on vocational training certificates in combination with work experience. Switzerland and Austria are rather pushing the comprehensive introduction of programmes that enable the parallel acquisition of a dual vocational training qualification and a higher education entrance qualification. Finally, we raise questions about the risk of institutional ambiguity and institutional task overload}, language = {en} } @incollection{GrafLassniggPowell, author = {Graf, Lukas and Lassnigg, Lorenz and Powell, Justin J. W.}, title = {Austrian Corporatism and Gradual Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-based VET}, series = {The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation}, booktitle = {The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation}, editor = {Busemeyer, Marius R. and Trampusch, Christine}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-0-1995-9943-1}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {150 -- 178}, abstract = {Education, skill formation, and training continue to be important areas of consideration for both public policy and research. This book examines the particular types of vocational training known as collective skill formation systems, whereby the training (often firm-based apprenticeships) is collectively organized by businesses and unions with state support and cooperation in execution, finance, and monitoring. With contributions from leading academics, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the varying historical origins of, and recent developments in, vocational training systems, offering in-depth studies on coordinated market economies, namely Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Denmark. It also contains comparative chapters that analyse how these countries react to common challenges such as deindustrialization, labour market stratification, academic drift, gender inequalities, and Europeanization. Whereas previous research has focused on the differences between various kinds of skill regimes, this book focuses on explaining institutional variety within the group of collective skill formation systems. The development of skill formation systems is regarded as a dynamic political process, dependent on the outcome of various political struggles regarding such matters as institutional design and transformations during critical junctures in historical development.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Internationalization Strategies in Higher Education Systems: A Variety of Capitalism Analytical Framework}, series = {Aspects in Varieties of Capitalism - Dynamics, Economic Crisis, New Players}, booktitle = {Aspects in Varieties of Capitalism - Dynamics, Economic Crisis, New Players}, editor = {Egbert, Henrik and Esser, Clemens}, publisher = {Lambert}, address = {Saarbr{\"u}cken}, isbn = {978-3-8383-4045-6}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {203 -- 227}, language = {en} } @incollection{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Germany: Stability and Change}, series = {Education in the European Union. Pre-2003 Member States}, booktitle = {Education in the European Union. Pre-2003 Member States}, editor = {Corner, Trevor}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-4725-2815-5}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {125 -- 154}, language = {en} } @techreport{SolgaBrzinskyFayGrafetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Solga, Heike and Brzinsky-Fay, Christian and Graf, Lukas and Gresch, Cornelia and Protsch, Paula}, title = {Vergleiche innerhalb von Gruppen und institutionelle Gelingensbedingungen. Vielversprechende Perspektiven f{\"u}r die Ungleichheitsforschung}, series = {WZB Discussion Paper, No. SP I 2013-501}, journal = {WZB Discussion Paper, No. SP I 2013-501}, pages = {64}, language = {de} } @techreport{Graf, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Duale Studieng{\"a}nge als "unerwartete" Form der institutionellen Durchl{\"a}ssigkeit zwischen Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Deutschland}, series = {Vergleiche innerhalb von Gruppen und institutionelle Gelingensbedingungen. Vielversprechende Perspektiven f{\"u}r die Ungleichheitsforschung}, journal = {Vergleiche innerhalb von Gruppen und institutionelle Gelingensbedingungen. Vielversprechende Perspektiven f{\"u}r die Ungleichheitsforschung}, editor = {Solga, Heike and Brzinsky-Fay, Christian and Graf, Lukas and Gresch, Cornelia and Protsch, Paula}, pages = {40 -- 41}, language = {de} } @techreport{PowellCoutrotGrafetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Powell, Justin J. W. and Coutrot, Laurence and Graf, Lukas and Bernhard, Nadin and Kieffer, Annick and Solga, Heike}, title = {Comparing the Relationship between Vocational and Higher Education in Germany and France}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-259138}, pages = {57}, abstract = {A number of European initiatives aim to create a European educational space, including vocational training and higher education. Following the logic of difference, we ask whether, despite their different institutionalization, these two sectors in France and Germany react similarly to the Europe-wide Copenhagen and Bologna processes. We compare the relationship between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education (HE), contrasting a number of influential typologies. Analyzing the current situation, we ask whether these differences in postsecondary education and training systems continue to exist.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Graf, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Applying the Varieties of Capitalism Approach to Higher Education: A Case Study of the Internationalisation Strategies of German and British Universities}, language = {en} } @article{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Expanding Work-Based Higher Education. Policy Lessons from Germany and the U.S.}, series = {HSG Fokus. Das Magazin der Universit{\"a}t St.Gallen}, volume = {3}, journal = {HSG Fokus. Das Magazin der Universit{\"a}t St.Gallen}, number = {2016}, language = {en} } @incollection{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Die Governance dualer Studieng{\"a}nge}, series = {Gerechtigkeit f{\"a}ngt bei der Bildung an}, volume = {37}, booktitle = {Gerechtigkeit f{\"a}ngt bei der Bildung an}, editor = {Jungkamp, Burkhard and John-Ohnesorg, Marei}, edition = {Schriftenreihe des Netzwerk Bildung}, isbn = {978-3-95861-472-7}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {60 -- 62}, language = {de} } @article{Graf, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {Developing Advanced Work-Based Higher Education - What Germany and the U.S. Can Learn from Each Other}, series = {AICGS Transatlantic Perspectives Series}, journal = {AICGS Transatlantic Perspectives Series}, language = {en} } @article{GrafKirsch, author = {Graf, Lukas and Kirsch, Christiane}, title = {Precarious Perspectives for Young Researchers: Luxembourg's Labor Law Restricts Development of Knowledge Society}, series = {Forum f{\"u}r Politik, Wissenschaft und Kultur}, volume = {347}, journal = {Forum f{\"u}r Politik, Wissenschaft und Kultur}, issn = {1680-2322}, pages = {17 -- 19}, language = {en} } @article{KirschGraf, author = {Kirsch, Christiane and Graf, Lukas}, title = {Karrieresackgasse f{\"u}r den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in Luxemburg - Das Luxemburgische Arbeitsgesetz begrenzt die Entfaltung der Wissensgesellschaft}, series = {Luxemburger Wort}, volume = {167}, journal = {Luxemburger Wort}, number = {32}, language = {de} } @incollection{MartinGraf, author = {Martin, Cathie Jo and Graf, Lukas}, title = {Industrial Coordination and Vocational Training in the Post-industrial Age}, series = {Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State}, booktitle = {Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York, NY}, doi = {10.4324/9781351002394}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {292 -- 313}, abstract = {This chapter suggests that one needs to look beyond national-level structures of industrial coordination to grasp how political pacts for vocational education and institutions for business-labor cooperation are being reinvented. Many believe that a revamping of vocational education for the post-industrial economy is necessary both to invest skills in services and to provide education for non-academic youth. The chapter discusses the relationship between industrial relations and vocational training, as well as challenges to the traditional governance mode in the policy spheres. It presents case studies of Denmark, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, which are based on secondary literature, document analysis, and expert interviews. The chapter explores how institutions for industrial coordination help or hinder efforts to renew vocational education for the post-industrial economy. In contrast, successive British prime ministers from both parties routinely avow commitment to vocational training with very little effect, although apprenticeship programs exist in some sectors.}, language = {en} } @article{DiMaioGrafWilson, author = {Di Maio, Gina and Graf, Lukas and Wilson, Anna}, title = {Torn between economic efficiency and social equality? Short-track apprenticeships in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland}, series = {European Educational Research Journal}, volume = {18}, journal = {European Educational Research Journal}, number = {6}, issn = {1474-9041}, doi = {10.1177/1474904119869561}, pages = {699 -- 723}, abstract = {Educational institutions, especially those facilitating vocational education and training (VET), face the challenge of combining social goals, such as the provision of quality education for a large section of the population, with rising economic utility demands. However, we know little About how VET systems institutionalize these different demands and, further, how social and economic goals are actually institutionalized in VET. Our article aims to unpack this puzzle by analysing shorttrack dual vocational training programmes (short-tracks) in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. These short-tracks combine on-the-job and school-based training, targeting candidates who face difficulties entering full-length dual programmes. Thus, short-tracks are prime examples of training programmes located at the nexus of economic and social demands. In our comparative institutional analysis, we bridge the political economy of collective skill formation and sociological institutionalism literatures. We find that the institutionalization of goals in VET not only differs between countries but that there is also considerable variation within national VET systems. Our analysis reveals that VET regulations, regional and sectoral standards, and the legitimization of key actors can differ greatly in their institutionalization of social and economic goals.}, language = {en} } @article{StrebelEmmeneggerGraf, author = {Strebel, Alexandra and Emmenegger, Patrick and Graf, Lukas}, title = {Die vielen Motoren der Berufsbildung}, series = {Governance der Berufsbildung: Eine systematische Analyse der Organisationen der Arbeitswelt. SGAB Newsletter, 1.}, journal = {Governance der Berufsbildung: Eine systematische Analyse der Organisationen der Arbeitswelt. SGAB Newsletter, 1.}, abstract = {Die Organisationen der Arbeitswelt sind f{\"u}r die Berufsbildung unverzichtbar - sie sind die Motoren der Berufsbildung. Das vom SBFI unterst{\"u}tzte Leading House GOVPET: Governance in Vocational and Professional Education and Training hat nun erstmals umfassende Daten {\"u}ber die OdA erhoben und ausgewertet. Sie zeigt, dass sich seit der Berufsbildungsreform von 2002 die Anzahl spezialisierter Berufsbildungsorganisationen stark erh{\"o}ht hat. Diese vereinen oftmals heterogene Mitglieder oder Tr{\"a}ger und unterschieden sich in vielen Aspekten von traditionellen Unternehmensverb{\"a}nden, Berufsverb{\"a}nden und Arbeitnehmerverb{\"a}nden.}, language = {de} }