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Torn between economic efficiency and social equality? Short-track apprenticeships in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland

  • 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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Gina Di Maio, Lukas GrafORCiD, Anna Wilson
Parent Title (English):European Educational Research Journal
ISSN:1474-9041
Publication year:2019
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:699
Last Page:723
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904119869561
Release Date:2019/09/02
Tag:Vocational education and training, comparative political economy, social equality, short-track vocational training, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, sociological institutionalism
Volume:18
Issue:6
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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