This week we share ‘Mapping social and economic vulnerability onto the progress of students in vocational education and training’ by Arcadia Martín-Pérez, Robert G. Valls-Figuera, Cristina Miranda-Santana & Mercedes Castellano-Hernández (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This week we ask what does agricultural training look like for farmers now compared to the past?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The second debate at the JVET 250th Edition Celebration turns to institutional theory, one of the most influential lenses in comparative VET research.
Chaired by Moses Oketch, the discussion brings together Markus Maurer and Bill Esmond.
This week we share ‘Problems of storekeeping and the issue of tools in the Engineering workshop’ by F. Horsfield (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
Conference Post 2027
Dates for your diary!
JVET CONFERENCE 2027
Following the success of our last conference, the team is busy planning the next Conference due to take place on 15 - 17 July 2027, in Oxford.
Please hold the date - we will provide more details later this Spring!
This week we share ‘Agricultural technical and vocational education and training in China: a critical policy analysis’ by Dichen Wei, Geng Wang & Simon McGrath (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The 250th edition celebration of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training offers a timely return to one of the most debated frameworks in VET research: the capabilities approach.
Debate one is chaired by Simon McGrath abd brings together Leesa Wheelahan and Stephanie Allais.
This week we ask what gets lost when civics in vocational schools is tied too closely to the job?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Each Thursday, we will be digging into the JVET archive and sharing a journal, conference, or research highlight from the past 75 years.
This week we share ‘The organisation of a Technical College Engineering workshop’ by J.W. Browne (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
Join us for a special event marking the 250th edition of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training, in collaboration with the LLAKES Institute.
In person at University College London & online
Friday 22 May 2026
10:30 – 17:00
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/journal-of...
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This week we share ‘What is integrated and what is excluded? Exploring vocational–academic integration in civics education in Swedish VET’ by Linda Ekström (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This week we ask how do school leaders justify digitalisation when their strategies blend pedagogical ideals with market, industrial and project‑based logics?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This week we share ‘The production of films for use in technical education: Some notes on film techniques’ by K. Baron Hartley (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
This week we share ‘How school leaders justify digitalization in vocationally oriented Swiss upper-secondary schools: a qualitative content analysis through the lens of convention theory in education’ by Schmitz et al (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Open Call for Papers: International perspectives on academisation, tertiarisation and hybridisation of vocational education: Between problem-solving, imitation and/or unintended consequences
29 May 2026: Close of call for abstracts
More information can be found here: www.jvet.uk/journal-info...
This week we ask how can teachers act ethically when Code of Conduct policies create ‘ethical impossibility,’ rules that make ethical practice structurally unachievable?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
Each Thursday, we will be digging into the JVET archive and sharing a journal, conference, or research highlight from the past 75 years.
This week we share ‘A pupil teacher in the 1850's’ by W. Wallace (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
Dates for your diary!
JVET CONFERENCE 2027
Following the success of our last conference, the team is busy planning the next Conference due to take place on 15 - 17 July 2027, in Oxford.
Please hold the date - we will provide more details later this Spring!
Each Tuesday, we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal.
This week we share ‘Recontextualising code of conduct policies: negotiating ethical dilemmas in VET pedagogic practices’ by S. Nakar & P. Singh (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
This week we ask how do we address a TESOL system where ‘compliance over pedagogy’ produces under‑prepared teachers and moral injury for educators?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
Join us for a special event marking the 250th edition of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training, in collaboration with the LLAKES Institute.
In person at University College London & online
Friday 22 May 2026
10:30 – 17:00
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/journal-of...
#JVET #JVET250
This week we share ‘Social Studies for Building Students
A short series of lessons on town planning and new towns’ by Edna G. Wilcox-Baker (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
This week we share ‘Manufacturing complicity: an analytic autoethnography of emotional labour and moral injury in VET-TESOL education’ by Shengmeng (Summer) Cui (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
This week we ask What would a modern “commercial apprenticeship” look like today, one that actually gives young entrants structured rotations, study time, and a real path into management?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
Open Call for Papers: International perspectives on academisation, tertiarisation and hybridisation of vocational education: Between problem-solving, imitation and/or unintended consequences.
More information can be found here: www.jvet.uk/journal-info...
Each Thursday, we will be digging into the JVET archive and sharing a journal, conference, or research highlight from the past 75 years.
This week we share ‘Commercial apprenticeships’ by H. Harman (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
Dates for your diary!
JVET CONFERENCE 2027
Following the success of our last conference, the team is busy planning the next Conference due to take place on 15 - 17 July 2027, in Oxford.
Please hold the date - we will provide more details later this Spring!
JVET ECR Online Café 2026
Join us online with a drink of your choice for an engaging and informal session featuring project showcases, wellbeing discussions, and opportunities to connect with colleagues.
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jvet-ecr-o...
Time: 10:00–11:30 (UK time)
Date: 31 March
This week we ask who gets written out of the story when we describe education reforms as if they were always destined to happen?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
This week we share ‘The apprentice engineer and incentives to study’ by James Brown (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET