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Book Section
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| Abstract |
The Bologna and Copenhagen processes promote standards for the categorization of educational programs and qualifications throughout Europe - with the goal to create greater transparency and permeability in European skill formation. However, key tools of Europeanization, like the Bachelor and Master degree cycles and the European Qualification Framework, fail to acknowledge important cultural, normative, and regulative idiosyncrasies of the educational systems in Austria and Germany. In both countries the sectors of vocational training and academic education represent distinct organizational fields divided by an "educational schism". The tensions and contradictions that accompany this traditional institutional divide have in many cases been masked by patterns of loose coupling. However, the current Europeanization processes tend to unsettle these patterns, which unleashes conflicts between the actors of the respective organizational fields, for example, with regard to the placement of the different certificates in the common qualification framework. The outcome of these struggles often is that the institutional divide between vocational training and academic education is widening rather than narrowing. The chapter shows how the Austrian and German institutional heritage has diverted the European educational model's initial goal to foster permeability and, with that, illustrates this model's paradoxical impact at the national level.
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| Authors |
Graf, Lukas |
| Editors |
Tröhler, Daniel & Lenz, Thomas |
| Projects |
Emmenegger, Patrick; Bonoli, Giuliano; Trampusch, Christine; Baumeler, Carmen; Graf, Lukas; Di Maio, Gina; Pisoni, Delia; Schraff, Dominik; Seitzl, Lina; Strebel, Alexandra; Wilson, Anna & Unterweger, Daniel Franz
(2015)
GOVPET: Governance in Vocational and Professional Education and Training
[fundamental research project]
Official URL
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| Language |
English |
| Keywords |
Europeanization, Bologna process, European Qualification Framework, education, skill formation, permeability, path dependence, institutional change, Austria, Germany, vocational training, higher education |
| Subjects |
political science |
| HSG Classification |
contribution to scientific community |
| Refereed |
No |
| Date |
2015 |
| Publisher |
Routledge |
| Place of Publication |
New York |
| Series Name |
Studies in curriculum theory |
| Page Range |
227-240 |
| Number of Pages |
14 |
| Title of Book |
Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems : Between the National and the Global |
| ISBN |
978-1-138-90348-7 |
| Depositing User |
Dr. Lukas Graf
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| Date Deposited |
19 Aug 2015 18:24 |
| Last Modified |
23 Aug 2016 11:22 |
| URI: |
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/243394 |
The European Educational Model and its Paradoxical Impact at the National Level
