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....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
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....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
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
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
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
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
This week we share ‘Fabricating the ‘dual system’. Conservative resistance against progressive TVET reforms in West Germany 1969–1982’ by Christoph Porcher & Bill Esmond (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
Share your reflections, connect with fellow educators and researchers, and contribute to shaping the dialogue.
This week we ask how are school leaders in your context justifying digitalisation?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
This week we share ‘The training of full-time in-service teachers in Further Education’ by T.A. Hempstock (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
This week we ask what do we miss about young people’s aspirations when we treat academic and vocational tracks as fundamentally different pathways?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
This week we share ‘Education for Social Change in England 1600–1660’ by W.H.G. Armytage (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 9.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
This week we share ‘Constructing life projects in a comprehensive secondary school: experiences from secondary students in Chile’ by
Jorge Prado & Leandro Sepúlveda (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
This week we ask if VET is meant to support a “just transition,” what happens when the everyday practices of a vocation (like beekeeping) clash with the strategic priorities of the VET system built to train it?
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 ‘The M.K.S. system’ by W.G. Clouter & L.S. Powell (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Vol 4. Issue 8.
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
This week we share ‘Tensions and symbiosis for vocational education and training and just transitions: a practice theoretical analysis of beekeeping practices in Aotearoa New Zealand’ by John P. Howse (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
This week we ask is vocational training becoming too segmented, with some occupations offering far better conditions than others?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
This week we share ‘Skill profiles of training occupations and occupational segmentation of vocational education and training in Germany’ by Filiz Koneberg, Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt & Anett Friedrich (2025).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask does Design Thinking count as Work‑Integrated Learning in vocational education, or are we overlooking its potential?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#SpotlightSundays #JVET
Each Tuesday, we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal.
This week we share ‘Design thinking: a pedagogical framework for work integrated learning’ by Philip Rose (2026).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask do you think vocational lessons benefit from more structured conceptual scaffolding, or does it risk oversimplifying practical knowledge?
#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 ‘Activity methods in further education’ by
F.E. Foden (1952).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#ThrowbackThursdays #JVET
Each Tuesday, we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal.
This week we share ‘Historical foundations of categorical pedagogy in vocational education‘ by Wayne Hugo (2025).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#NewTextTuesdays #JVET
