Technical and Vocational Education for Social Transformation and Justice

Abstract

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nepal has been envisioned to enhance skills and knowledge fitting in for the contemporary market needs and increasing employability. Countries like Nepal have often been labelled as poor in term of the income and employability of their people. In this broader perspective of TVET, we argue that technical and vocational education was the agenda of metropolitan cities and urban areas to increase skills, employability and income to maintain quality of life to mitigate poverty. This neoliberal thought limited the scope of the technical and vocational education in the human life in the age of metropolitan city. The paper questions the neoliberal approaches of technical and vocational education thereby making it more inclusive to address inequalities and promote social justice against the neoliberal orientation of skills and employability which the contemporary development has proved.