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 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....
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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?
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This week we ask what do we miss about young people’s aspirations when we treat academic and vocational tracks as fundamentally different pathways?
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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?
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This week we ask is vocational training becoming too segmented, with some occupations offering far better conditions than others?
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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?
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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?
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This week we ask how can vocational colleges better support students facing adverse life conditions without reducing them to attendance statistics?
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask how can vocational schools balance employability goals with students’ wellbeing and ecological sustainability?
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This week we ask what might vocational education look like if resilience and decolonisation were placed at its core?
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This week we ask if vocational teachers’ knowledge is concrete, specific, and complex, how should professional development programmes evolve to truly support this breadth of expertise?
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This week we ask what might Vocational Education look like if every teacher, regardless of their industry background, were supported to blend practical expertise with deep pedagogical training, creating hybrid approaches that fully meet the diverse needs of students?
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This week we ask can vocational education truly foster critical citizenship if critical thinking remains framed as an academic skill rather than a civic one?
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask how do we balance the need for measurable learning outcomes with the richness of holistic, subject-specific knowledge in vocational education?
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This week we ask who gets to define ‘good behaviour’ in classrooms, and why?
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask what deeper shifts in values or incentives might be needed for firms to see training not as a cost, but as a shared investment in societal resilience?
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This week we ask what if VET governance welcomed all social orders, how might that reshape its logic?
Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask how do recruiter biases and firm-level priorities shape access to apprenticeship opportunities for underrepresented groups?
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This week we ask what factors do you think most influence a company's decision to continue investing in apprenticeship training programs?
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask how do you think risk and uncertainty show up in traditional design practices, especially when learning happens through doing, observing, or emulating?
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
Share your reflections, connect with fellow educators and researchers, and contribute to shaping the dialogue.
This week we ask what are you reading currently?
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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.
This week we ask, how might inspectors balance their dual role as enforcers and educators in workplace training?
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This week we ask how do discourses around language proficiency in vocational education shape, or limit, migrants’ access to certain professions?
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Each Sunday we will spotlight an area of research recently published in JVET.
This week we ask what factors contribute to the persistence of established educational systems despite the introduction of new policy frameworks intended to reform them?
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This week we ask what do the women’s stories reveal about the social value of vocational education beyond formal qualifications?
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Each Sunday we will spotlight an area of research recently published in JVET and open the conversation to you. Share your thoughts on our spotlight, network, and connect with the community.
This week we ask why do you think skills development is important for a country’s growth?
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