{"title":"Editorial for JVET special issue on knowledge and expertise","authors":"J. Hordern, Yael Shalem, B. Esmond, Dan Bishop","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2022.2028365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2022.2028365","url":null,"abstract":"Perspectives on the nature of vocational knowledge and expertise are influential in shaping Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems and programmes in different societies and for different occupations, and reflect contrasting philosophies of the purpose of VET and its relationship to other forms of education. Debates centre around the role of knowledge derived from academic disciplines, the extent to which situated knowledge and practical understanding is key to the development of expertise, and epistemological questions about the relationship between forms of know-that and know-how (see Winch 2010). On the one hand, a creativity-focused ‘epistemology of the hand’ (Brinkmann and Tanggaard 2010) could be seen to imply that vocational expertise has little to do with forms of systematically produced disciplinary knowledge, which could be castigated as ‘inert’ and ‘irrelevant’ to much vocational practice. On the other hand, some commentators have emphasised the role of specialised disciplinary knowledge in shaping expertise in many occupations (Young and Muller 2014) and argued that systematically organised knowledge is indispensable for the making of sound judgements in practice (Winch 2010; Shalem 2014). The advantage of such an approach, one might argue, is that it can foreground knowledge that been ‘tried and tested’ in multiple contexts and held to stringent criteria for inclusion in the occupational knowledge base. The new practitioner can thus be offered a foundation of vocational knowledge that rests on the combined expertise of the wider community of practitioners. Studies of workplace learning and the generation of expertise in work practices have, however, queried the role of systematically organised knowledge in the fluid workplace contexts experienced by a wide range of workers (Guile and Unwin 2019; Virolainen et al. 2021). While systematic occupational knowledge may be an important basis for action, it can be argued that the most significant vocational knowledge is found within informally organised expert practices, often involving teams and complex networks. Suggestions that ‘practice’ should be considered the prime or only locus for the development of","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87325537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esperanza Meri Crespo, Almudena A. Navas Saurin, Míriam Abiétar López
{"title":"Providing access to training – Enough to achieve gender equality? An analysis of public gender policies in Vocational Education and Training","authors":"Esperanza Meri Crespo, Almudena A. Navas Saurin, Míriam Abiétar López","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.2015712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.2015712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73450041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facets of creative potential in selected occupational fields","authors":"Silke Fischer, Antje Barabasch","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.2007984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.2007984","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80440105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a member of a nursing community of practice: negotiating performance competence and identity","authors":"Mary Xiaorong Chen, M. Newman, S. Park","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.2015715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.2015715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75498893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative analysis of immigration processes in Canada and Germany: empirical results from case studies in the health and IT sectors","authors":"Silvia Annen","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.2015713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.2015713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81257726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vocational education and Bildung: a marriage or divorce?","authors":"W. Sanderse","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.2015714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.2015714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74688484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring vocational teacher preparation in Norway: a study of dimensions and differences in vocational teacher learning","authors":"Rønnaug H. Lyckander","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.2007985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.2007985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79363701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online tasks and students’ transformative agency: double-stimulation as a design principle for synchronous online workshops","authors":"P. Moffitt, Brett Bligh","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.1998792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.1998792","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89207215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of employee development in the emerging fourth industrial revolution: a preferred liberal future","authors":"Maria Loumpourdi","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.1998793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.1998793","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74747877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Chinese national vocational education reform: a critical policy analysis","authors":"Siyu Liu, I. Hardy","doi":"10.1080/13636820.2021.1998195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.1998195","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on Carol Bacchi’s post-structural analytical approach, this study examines the nature of recent policy reforms in China in relation to vocational education (VE). The article reveals key problem representations that characterise the Implementation Plan of National Vocational Education Reform (IPNVER) issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 2019, and how these have arisen in light of previous reforms. These previous reforms relate to China’s policies, laws and regulations with respect to the higher vocational education system since the ‘opening up’ in 1978. The study reveals that the VE policy in China is strongly governed by ‘economic logics’ in the context of neoliberal globalisation, even as it exhibits various ‘Chinese characteristics’, and that developing VE is seen as a solution to promoting Chinese economic and social development. However, at the same time, important issues are also ‘silenced’ as a result of the dominance of more economic logics in national VE policy. The article suggests policymakers need to pay more attention to developments in regional education, the social welfare issues of poorer working urban and rural peoples, and the mental health of citizens, while developing the national economy.","PeriodicalId":46718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80210556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}