Options
Lukas Graf
Former Member
Title
Dr.
Last Name
Graf
First name
Lukas
Now showing
1 - 7 of 7
-
PublicationThe rise of work-based academic education in Austria, Germany and SwitzerlandAustria, Germany and Switzerland are renowned for their extensive systems of collective vocational skill formation, which, however, have developed largely in separation from higher education. This divide has become increasingly contested as a result of a variety of socioeconomic factors that have led to an increasing demand for higher level skills. Do the three countries deal with these challenges in similar ways? The comparative analysis is based on process tracing from the 1960s to 2013 and builds on historical institutionalism as well as several dozen expert interviews with key stakeholders. A key finding is that all three countries have developed hybrid forms of work-based academic education that combine elements of vocational training and higher education. However, in Austria and Switzerland, these hybrids have been integrated into the traditional model of collective governance, whereas the German case signifies a departure from this model.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Vocational Education and TrainingVolume: 68Issue: 1
Scopus© Citations 33 -
PublicationThe Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and SwitzerlandAustria, Germany, and Switzerland are increasingly relying on hybridization at the nexus of vocational training and higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly praised systems of collective skill formation. This historical and organizational institutionalist study compares these countries to trace the evolution of their skill regimes from the 1960s to today's era of Europeanization, focusing especially on the impact of the Bologna and Copenhagen processes.
-
PublicationThe European Educational Model and its Paradoxical Impact at the National LevelThe 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. [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138903487/ Click here for more information]Type: book section
-
PublicationAuswirkungen des neuen europäischen Bildungsmodells auf die Verknüpfung zwischen Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Deutschland, Österreich und Frankreich(Nomos, 2013)
;Bernhard, Nadine ;Powell, Justin J. W. ;Amos, Karin ;Schmid, Josef ;Schrader, JosefThiel, AnsgarType: book section -
-
PublicationType: book section
Scopus© Citations 13 -
PublicationAustrian Corporatism and Gradual Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-based VET(Oxford University Press, 2012)
;Lassnigg, Lorenz ;Powell, Justin J. W. ;Busemeyer, Marius R.Trampusch, ChristineWithin the context of collective skill formation systems, Austria presents a case in which a well-developed vocational education and training (VET) system provides a differentiated set of pathways for youth as they prepare their transitions from school to work. If we wish to draw lessons from a comparison of collective skill systems, the dynamic relationship between a strong dual apprenticeship training system and a robust school-based training system is one of the key factors differentiating VET in Austria from the VET systems in Germany and Switzerland. Indeed, we argue that the Austrian collective skill system as well as contemporary changes within it cannot be understood without understanding full-time vocational schooling in Austria. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-political-economy-of-collective-skill-formation-9780199599431;jsessionid=A6DFC60A487815E0A05546BA1D9828A0?cc=lu&lang=en& Click here for more information]Type: book section