Papers Session 3A - Fundamental Values Underpinning VET Policies

Vocationalism and the Decline of Vocational Learning in England

Geoff Hayward, University of Oxford

Changing an award-winning system - for better or for worse?

Anja Lindkvist Jorgensen, University of Aalborg

Putting Dreyfus into Action. How to Solve the Core Problem of the European Credit Transfer System in Vocational Education and Training (ECVET)

Matthias Becker, University of Flensburg; Jorg Markowitsch, 3s Research Laboratory; Georg Spoettl, University of Bremen, ITB

Monitor Impulse VET Arrangement

Wil van Esch, CINOP

Papers Session 3B - Professional / Vocational Identity and Personal Knowledge

Qualitative Diagnostics of Professional Identity Development in Vocational Education and Training: Congruences and Disconnections

Vilma Zydziunaite, Kaunas University of Technology

Development and Role of Vocational Identities within the Emerging Associative Socio-Solidarity Based Sector: Case of home help socio-healthcare

M'Hamed Dif, University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg

Developing reflective practices for VET professionals

Massimo Tomassini, ISFOL

Socio-economic Intelligence as an Organizational Competence

Robertas Jucevicius, Kaunas University of Technology

Papers Session 3C - Relationship between Learning Theories and Learning Practices

Application of Converse Thinking: Interchange of Practical Assignments with Theoretical Applications

Glenn Hultman, University of Linkoping; Per Lindqvist, University of Kalmar; Ulla Karin Nordanger, University of Kalmar; Jan Schoultz, University of Linkoping

Working to Learn: Meaning, Issues and Theory Relating and Work

Len Cairns, Monash University; Margaret Malloch, Victoria University

Modeling a Self-rated Learning Motivation, Metacognitive Strategy and Social Ability Profile for Adult Learners

Petri Nokelainen, University of Tampere; Pekka Ruohotie, University of Tampere

Session 4 - VETNET Research Forum Plenary Session

Roundtable Session 5A - European and National Research Networks: How to Stimulate Community Development?" (sponsored by CEDEFOP)

New Member States and an Overview of their Activities in VET and HRD Research as presented in the Cedefop European Research Overview (ERO)

Petr Vicenik, CEDEFOP

European Networking in Vocational Education Research - Tracing Patterns of Community Development

Sabine Manning, Research Forum WIFO Berlin

Development of the VETNET Research Community: Experiences and Challenges

Ludger Deitmer, University of Bremen, ITB

Effects of VETNET on community building processes in Europe [ Download ] (VETNET and Europe_2_ppt.ppt - 224.00 Kb ) Preview

This is power point presentation reflects on the European VETNET research community and its common status, theme profile, author orign and organisation. The author (actual Convenor of VETNET) describes the relationship between European research programmes and VETNET paper contributions to the annual ECER/ VETNET conference. This in order to give some concluding remarks on the actual challenges for the future of this network. VETNET is one of the largest reserach communities (ca 400 subsribed to the page) under the umbrella of the European Association of Educational Research (EERA) and its anual European Conference on Educational research (ECER). Next Conference will take place at the University of Geneve, from the 11-16. of September 2006.

Papers, Poster Session 5B - Skill Development and Learning Strategies

A Study of Factors Related to the Success and Failure of Entrepreneurs of Small Industrial Business with Emphasis on their Level of Education and Training

Yadollah Mehralizadeh, University of Shahid Chamran Ahvaz, Iran; Hossain Sajady, University of Shahid Chamran Ahvaz

Competence Development in Small Business: Motives, Methods and Strategies

Per-Erik Ellstrom, University of Linkoping; Andreas Gill, University of Linkoping; Henrik Kock, University of Linkoping

The Vocational Training System in Greece: The Role of VET in Generating Skills

Georgiadis Dimitrios, University of Ioannina; Eleni Sianou, University of Ioannina; Eleni Zygouri, University of Ioannina

‘Danish Dynamite’ - on the Implementation Process of Autonomous Schools in the German Vocational System

Volker Bank, University of Kiel

Symposium Session 5C - Learning, Work and Identity: Challenges for the Construction of a Professional Self

The Construction of a New Professional Self: an Analysis of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway

Karen Jensen, University of Oslo; Monika Nerland, University of Oslo

Exercising Self through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity

Stephen Billett, Griffith University

Vocational Socialization, Learning and Self-management - Lessons from Germany

Wilfried Kruse, Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund (SFS)

Papers Session 6A - VET Professionals: Training the Trainers

Harmonization of Vocational Teacher Education in EU

Anders Hedman, University of Umea; Sigurd Johansson, University of Umea

Work-place Conflicts: A Case Study on Coping Strategies of VET Teachers

Sandra Bohlinger, University of Technology Darmstadt

Improving Teaching and Learning in Further Education: a Genealogy

Helen Colley, Manchester Metropolitan University; Denis Gleeson, University of Warwick; Madeleine Wahlberg, University of Warwick

Organisational Changes in Further Education and Tendencies of New Forms of Professionalisation

Daniela Ahrens, University of Bremen, ITB

Papers Session 6B - Work Based Learning

Learning Organisations in Europe: Implications for Vocational Education and Training

Nicholas Boreham, University of Stirling

Professional Training as Transformation across Scales: Mapping Dynamic of Changes in the Activity System of a Small Publishing House through Analysing the Work Practices of a Novice Manager

Ingrid de Saint-Georges, University of Geneva; Marc Durand, University of Geneva; Myriam Meuwly-Bonte, University of Geneva

Enterprise-provided Training and its National Context: towards an Explanatory Model

Friederike Behringer, Bundesinstitut fur Berufsbildung; Bernd Kapplinger, Bundesinstitut fur Berufsbildung

Roundtable Session 6C - Education and Training in England and Wales

Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training in England and Wales

Geoff Hayward, University of Oxford Ann Hodgson, University of London; Alis Oancea, University of Oxford; Ken Spours, University of London; Stephanie Wilde, University of Oxford;