New VET theories for new times
The critical capabilities approach to vocational education and training and its potential for theorising a transformed and transformational VET
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21696352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Mcgrath (0000-0003-2312-5378, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, corresponding author), Lesley Powell (0000-0003-3886-2872, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England), Joyceline Alla-Mensah (0000-0002-9850-8114, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England), Randa Hilal (Optimum Consultants, Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories), Rebecca Suart (0000-0003-1561-5684, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 575-596 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Vocational Education and Training (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-6820 • E-ISSN: 1747-5090 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13636820.2020.1786440 |
| OpenAlex | W3037893447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 47 |
There is a growing sense that the orthodox set of theories and policies for VET don’t work. This is particularly true in the South where all such Northern theories and policies face the common problem of being constructed for other contexts and then imported. In the light of persistent poverty and inequality; widespread precarious and indecent work; continued concerns about educational access, retention and achievement; and a rising environmental crisis, VET must be transformed to address a new and challenging set of objectives. Here, we offer an exploration of a theoretical approach to VET research that has emerged in the past decade and which offers new insights into how VET can be transformed in order to contribute to the wider transformation agenda around sustainable human development. This is what we term the critical capabilities account of vocational education and training, CCA-VET. We will argue that it is one fertile route towards new thinking about transforming VET in order to support a transformation agenda
Economics · Geography · Inequality · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Transformative learning · Vocational education · Computer Science · Education Systems and Policy · Engineering · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Constrained capacity to aspire
Rethinking skills development and entrepreneurship for refugees
Up-skilling women or de-skilling patriarchy? How TVET can drive wider gender transformation and the decent work agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees
Training for employment or skilling up from employment? Jobs and skills acquisition in the Tiruppur textile region, India
Public Investment in Short-Cycle Tertiary Vocational Education
Anti-work, TVET and employer engagement
Is lifelong learning still useful? Disappointments and prospects for rediscovery
Vocational education for a sustainable future
The contribution of VET to resilience and the possibilities for decolonisation
Training policy among vulnerable unemployed groups
Towards vocational education and training and skills development for sustainable futures
Understanding aspirations
State-led vocational education and training in Turkey through the lens of capability approach
Reimagining TVET in South Africa
Tensions and symbiosis for vocational education and training and just transitions
Constructing life projects in a comprehensive secondary school
‘I came here to cook and have fun’ – everyday life at vocational cooking school through the lenses of capability approach and sustainable wellbeing theory
The contribution of hospitality vocational education and training towards forming critical citizens
Finnish vocational education and training experts’ reflections on multiculturalism in the aftermath of a major reform
Re-Imagining policy discourses concerning the participation of young women in STEM-related TVET in Ghana
Cultural embeddedness and epistemic negotiation in South–South VET cooperation—a comparative study in Central Asia
From training workers to educating global citizens
The development of green skills for the informal sector of Ghana
A capability approach to understanding the role of informal apprenticeship in the human development of informal apprentices
Skills futures in Africa
Shaping worker-citizenship
Neo-institutional perspectives on VET
Schools and industries producing educational-labor paths in secondary TVET in Chile
Skills for development and vocational education and training
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Skill India’s unmet promises
How the global VET toolkit weakened local colleges in South Africa
Students’ valued capabilities and their sociodemographic determinants at China’s vocational high schools
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Competence-based vocational agriculture education for sustainability in Burundi
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism
Transgressive Capabilities
Employment, technology and development
Calculating student aspiration
Varieties of Capitalism
Culture and Public Action
Creating Capabilities
How Institutions Evolve
Aspirations, Poverty, and Economic Change
Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education
Girls’ educational aspirations and agency
Multidimensional disadvantages and educational aspirations of marginalised migrant youth
Entrepreneurship education for youth in sub-Saharan Africa
The Other Economy
Skills for sustainable development
Will skills save us? Rethinking the relationships between vocational education, skills development policies, and social policy in South Africa
Vocational education and training for development
Reimagining the purpose of VET – Expanding the capability to aspire in South African Further Education and Training students
Global inequality, capabilities, social justice
Higher education and economic development
Constituting neoliberal subjects? ‘Aspiration’ as technology of government in UK policy discourse
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Educating for Futures in Marginalized Regions
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The Women, Gender and Development Reader
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The political economy of skills and inequality
How Do Aspirations Matter
Aspirations and Human Development Interventions
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |