From Lisbon to Copenhagen, London, Helsinki and Edinburgh - a study of vocational education and training (VET) policy making in four European countries (Denmark, England, Finland and Scotland)

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/13636820.2022.2118946

Jane Pither

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ABSTRACT In this study I explored the complex relationships developed during vocational education and training (VET) policy making by the European Union (EU), three member states (Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom) and a region, Scotland, between 2000 and 2019. Discourse and thematic analyses of EU and national VET policy documents were used to compare the distinctive nature of VET policy making in the four countries. Illustrative thematic case studies were then compared with selected policy change theories of convergence, Europeanisation, Europeification and policy drift. Using a critical realism framework to support analyses of different layers of discourse, it was found that there was no consistent understanding of the purpose of VET between the EU and its member states, or, indeed, within the nations of the UK. The purpose of VET policy was varyingly perceived as either social, economic, educational or political between 2000 and 2019. This led me to the conceptualisation of a VET policy making gyre, developed as an alternative to the policy making cycle. The gyre was found to represent more fully the ebb and flow of aspects of policy purposes and goals over time as well as the dynamics of structure and agent relationships in policy formulation.

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从里斯本到哥本哈根、伦敦、赫尔辛基和爱丁堡——对四个欧洲国家(丹麦、英格兰、芬兰和苏格兰)职业教育和培训(VET)政策制定的研究

在本研究中，我探讨了欧盟(EU)、三个成员国(丹麦、芬兰和英国)和苏格兰地区在2000年至2019年期间职业教育与培训(VET)政策制定过程中形成的复杂关系。通过对欧盟和各国职业教育政策文件的话语和专题分析，比较了四个国家职业教育政策制定的独特性。然后，将说明性专题案例研究与趋同、欧洲化、欧洲化和政策漂移等政策变化理论进行比较。使用批判现实主义框架来支持对不同层次话语的分析，发现欧盟及其成员国之间，或者实际上，在英国国家内部，对职业教育培训的目的没有一致的理解。从2000年到2019年，职业教育培训政策的目的在社会、经济、教育或政治方面被认为是不同的。这让我想到了职业教育教育政策制定循环的概念，作为政策制定周期的替代方案。研究发现，环流更充分地代表了政策目的和目标的各个方面随着时间的推移以及政策制定过程中结构和代理关系的动态变化。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.