TY - BOOK ID - 5448812 TI - Shaping flexibility in vocational education and training : institutional, curricular, and professional conditions AU - Heikkinen, Anja AU - Nieuwenhuis, A. F. M. AU - Nijhof, Wim J. PY - 2002 SN - 030648157X 1402011458 1402011466 PB - Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Education. KW - International education. KW - Comparative education. KW - Educational sociology. KW - Economic growth. KW - Education and sociology. KW - Sociology, Educational. KW - Professional & Vocational Education. KW - International and Comparative Education. KW - Economic Growth. KW - Sociology of Education. KW - Adaptability (Psychology). KW - Apprentices. KW - Education, Cooperative ; Field work (Educational method). KW - Occupational training KW - Professional education KW - Vocational education KW - Vocational education. KW - Professional education. KW - International education . KW - Education, Professional KW - Career education KW - Education, Higher KW - Technical education KW - Education, Comparative KW - Education KW - Global education KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - Internationalism KW - Education, Vocational KW - Vocational training KW - Work experience KW - Education and sociology KW - Social problems in education KW - Society and education KW - Sociology, Educational KW - Sociology KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - History KW - Aims and objectives KW - Job training KW - Manpower development and training KW - Manpower training programs KW - Training KW - Education and training services industry KW - Practice firms UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5448812 AB - Flexibility seems to be the core concept of economic and educational change in our time. The promise of solutions to many problems at the individual, institutional, and national level evokes as much controversy as acclaim. This might be related to the different perspectives of actors and researchers involved in problem-solving in Vocational Education and Training (VET), where, on the one hand, solutions should be sought in key qualifications and transferability, in changing teaching and learning processes, while, on the other, political, institutional, organisational, and professional conditions are seen as the key interventions to build a responsive workforce on the basis of a re-engineered VET system. Consequently, flexibility in connection with vocational education and training and the labour market has several divergent connotations. ER -