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Country Size and Educational Change: Comparing Reforms of Skill Formation in Germany and Switzerland

  • This conference paper argues that country size can play a crucial role in shaping the type of gradual change observed in collective skill formation systems. Collectively governed dual-apprenticeship training has its base in the industrial and crafts sectors of the economy and builds on the decentralized cooperation of multiple public and private stakeholders. As a result, it tends to be strongly path dependent, which favours gradual over radical forms of change. However, in recent years, dual-apprenticeship training has been increasingly challenged by the rise of the knowledge and service economy and the growing popularity of academic forms of education. In this context, I compare policy responses in Switzerland and Germany, which represent one small and one large collective skill formation system respectively. The historical-institutionalist analysis finds that the dominant trajectory of change is conversion in Switzerland but layering in Germany, with different implications for the future viability of collective skill formation.
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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Lukas GrafORCiD
Parent Title (English):Pathways in Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning. Proceedings of the 4th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training, Muttenz and Bern online, 8. - 9. April 2021
Publication year:2021
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4608711
Release Date:2021/06/07
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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