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Between Economic Efficiency and Social Equality: Short-track Apprenticeships in Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland.

Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2018-03-29
Author(s)
Di Maio, Gina  
Graf, Lukas  
Wilson, Anna
Abstract
Educational institutions, especially those facilitating vocational education and training (VET), face the challenge to combine social goals such as the provision of quality education for a broad share of the population with rising economic utility demands. What is less known is how social and economic goals are actually institutionalised in VET. Our paper aims to further unpack this puzzle by analysing short-track dual training programmes in Denmark, Germany, and Switzer-land. These target candidates who face difficulties entering full-length dual programmes. Thus, short-tracks are prime examples of training institutions located at the nexus of economic and social demands. In our institutional-comparative analysis, we focus on the regulative (rules), normative (standards), and the cultural-cognitive (legitimization by key actors) institutional dimensions of short-tracks. We find cross-case and within-case variation of the institutionalisation of social and economic goals. While Danish short-tracks are more socially oriented, the institutionalisation of the German and Swiss short-tracks is marked by economic-oriented interest from the employers’ camp.
Funding(s)
GOVPET: Governance in Vocational and Professional Education and Training  
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SEPS - Global Democratic Governance
Event Title
25th International Conference of Europeanists
Event Location
Chicago, Illinois USA
Event Date
28.-30.3
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/100637
Subject(s)

political science

social sciences

Division(s)

SEPS - School of Econ...

Eprints ID
254157

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