Vocational Education beyond Skill Formation

Fernando Marhuenda: Vocational Education, Labor and Citizenship: The Working Class, the Workforce and the Provision of Qualifications from Early to Contemporary Capitalism - 2. Lorenzo Bonoli: An Ambiguous Identity. The figure of the Apprentice from the XIX Century up to Today in Switzerland - Chiara Martinelli: A School for the Many but Attended by the Few: Industrial and Artistic Industrial Schools in Regional and National Data - Esther Berner: Citizenship and Participation: Apprenticeship as a Political Issue in the Swiss VET Debate in the 1970s/80s - Ida Juul: The Twin Aspiration of Danish Craftsmen to Maintain their Traditional Privileges and Be Accepted as Respectable Members of the Emerging Bourgeois Society - Kenneth Teitelbaum: Citizenship, Workers Education and Radical Activism in Early 20th Century United States - Germán Gil: Education and Work in the Libertarian Thinking of 19th and Early 20th Century Spain - Burkhard Volmers/Werner Kuhlmeier: Implementation of Sustainability into Germany ìs VET System by Means of Model Projects: A Review on the Years 2005 to 2015 - Patricia Olmos: The Role of VET into Social Participation and Self Determination of Disabled People as Full Citizens - Katerina Arkoudi-Vafea: Students of Vocational Education Centers in Greece and Financial Crisis - Tania Brabo: The Recent History of Vocational Education in Brazil: The Qualification of the Workforce and its Empowerment through Criticism and Mobilization - Vicente Palop: VET Challenges in Local Development: the UDATMA Case in Ecuador - Lea Zehnder/Philipp Gonon: Civic and Market Convention as Driving Forces of the Development of Swiss VET - Thomas Deissinger/Daniela Gremm: The Status of VET in Canada: Evidence from Literature and Qualitative Research - María José Chisvert/Ana Córdoba: Validation and Accreditation of Qualifications and Citizenship: a Method to Guarantee Social Equity in Spain - Míriam Abiétar/Fernando Marhuenda/Almudena Navas: The Ambiguous Role of Basic VET

Fernando Marhuenda is University Professor of Didactics and School Organization at the Universitat de València, Spain. He coordinates a research group on Transitions from Education into Employment for Vulnerable People. He lectures on Social Education and Teacher Education, and has been visiting scholar in Wisconsin-Madison, Rochester, Mainz, Augsburg and London.