Re-conceptualising VET

Responses to covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21696243
AutoresJames Avis (0000-0002-7404-938X, Institute of Education, University of Derby, Emeritus Professor University of Huddersfield, UK, autor de correspondencia), LIZ ATKINS (0000-0001-9673-4428, Institute of Education, University of Derby, UK), Bill Esmond (0000-0002-9689-0807, Institute of Education, University of Derby, UK), Simon Mcgrath (0000-0003-2312-5378, University of Nottingham)
Año2021
Volumen73
Número1
Páginas1-23
Fecha de publicación2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Vocational Education and Training (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-6820 • E-ISSN: 1747-5090
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13636820.2020.1861068
OpenAlexW3114677345
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas42

The paper addresses the impact of Covid-19 on vocational education and training, seeking to discern the outline of possible directions for its future development within the debates about VET responses to the pandemic. The discussion is set in its socio-economic context, considering debates that engage with the social relations of care and neo-liberalism. The paper analyses discourses that have developed around VET across the world during the pandemic, illustrating both possible continuities and ruptures that may emerge in this field, as the health crisis becomes overshadowed in public policy by the prioritisation of economic recovery and social restoration. The paper concludes that, alongside the possibility of a narrowing of VET to its most prosaic aims and practices, the health crisis could also lead to a re-conceptualisation that develops its radical and emancipatory possibilities in both the global south and north

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Economic growth · Economics · Pandemic · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Vocational education · Employment and Welfare Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics