TY - JOUR A1 - Powell, Justin J.W. A1 - Graf, Lukas A1 - Bernhard, Nadine A1 - Coutrot, Laurence A1 - Kieffer, Annick T1 - The Shifting Relationship between Vocational and Higher Education in France and Germany: towards convergence? JF - European Journal of Education N2 - In Europe, the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes in higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) are on the agenda, aiming to create a European educational area. Acknowledging important differences between countries, we compare the evolving relationship between HE and VET. We ask whether and how these two distinct organisational fields in France and Germany have changed in recent decades. Comparing institutional shifts, the article analyses whether long-standing differences in postsecondary education and training systems and the education/economy nexus in these two countries have remained stable. We argue that these countries’ skill formation systems have begun to converge, departing from their original institutionalisation paths. Thus, while the traditional typologies that contrast France and Germany have served as useful heuristic devices, they require revision to adequately represent incremental institutional change in these skill formation systems resulting from endogenous reforms and exogenous pressures due to Europeanisation. Y1 - 2012 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24404 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3435.2012.01534.x SN - 0141-8211 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 405 EP - 423 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Powell, Justin J. W. A1 - Coutrot, Laurence A1 - Graf, Lukas A1 - Bernhard, Nadin A1 - Kieffer, Annick A1 - Solga, Heike T1 - Comparing the Relationship between Vocational and Higher Education in Germany and France BT - Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildung, Arbeit und Lebenschancen, Abteilung Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarkt, 2009-506 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2009 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-259138 ER -