An Imperative to Adjust?: Skill Formation in England and Germany - Softcover

Wentzel, Joachim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3531180630 ISBN 13: 9783531180632

Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011

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This book deals with education systems and the change observed within them alongside changes in the wider political economy. The research is conducted by way of a comparative case study of England and Germany. Extending the VoC approach, not only vocational education and training but also school education and higher education are analysed. The point of departure is the puzzling fact that the current reforms of the education systems of both countries are departing from the paths predicted by the VoC approach. The thesis thus argues against institutional path-dependency in the two countries, and in favour of an ideational approach based on discursive institutionalism.

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Joachim Wentzel is currently employed as a research associate at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, where he is affiliated to the Chair for Administrative Sciences and Public Law.

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This book deals with education systems and the change observed within them alongside changes in the wider political economy. The research is conducted by way of a comparative case study of England and Germany. Extending the VoC approach, not only vocational education and training but also school education and higher education are analysed. The point of departure is the puzzling fact that the current reforms of the education systems of both countries are departing from the paths predicted by the VoC approach. The thesis thus argues against institutional path-dependency in the two countries, and in favour of an ideational approach based on discursive institutionalism.

This book is essential reading for researchers in the social sciences, comparative political sciences and educational sciences.

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• Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3531180630
• ISBN 13: 9783531180632
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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