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Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa
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出版日期
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2023/01/06
閱讀格式
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EPUB
ISBN
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9781529224641
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The transition to more just and sustainable development requires radical change across a wide range of areas and particularly within the nexus between learning and work. This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training that goes beyond the narrow focus of much of the current literature and policy debate. Drawing on case studies across rural and urban settings in Uganda and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this issue through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn to have better livelihoods. Crucially, it explores learning that takes place informally online, within farmers’ groups, and in public and private educational institutions. Offering new insights and ways of thinking about this field, the book draws out clear implications for theory, policy and practice in Africa and beyond.
- Cover
- Seriee Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements and Authorship
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1 Introducing VET Africa 4.0
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A new approach to vocational education and training
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Introducing the notion of skills ecosystems
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Introducing the cases
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eThekwini
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Hoima
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Alice
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Gulu
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Our contribution
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The book’s structure
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2 VET and Skills in Africa: A Historical Sociology
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Introduction
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A brief history of VET in Africa
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Precolonial skills development
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Colonial experiences
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African VET since independence
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The state of contemporary African VET
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Towards a VET Africa 4.0
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Conclusion
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3 Water, Transport, Oil and Food: A Political–Economy–Ecology Lens on Changing Conceptions of Work, Learning and Skills Development in Africa
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Introduction
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Oil, transport, water and food: locating VET Africa 4.0
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Country climate risk profiles
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Political–economy–ecology
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Rereading the history of African VET
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Just transitions and emerging skills trajectories
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Skills development for just transitions within an expanded skills ecosystem approach
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Conclusion
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4 Towards an Expanded Notion of Skills Ecosystems
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Introduction
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Skills ‘ecosystems’: a construct in transition
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The importance of social ecosystems for skills
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Collaborative horizontalities
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Facilitating verticalities
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45° politics and mediation
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Ecological time
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Applying a social ecosystems perspective
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‘Facilitating verticalities’ in African VET ecosystems?
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Unpacking the vertical: South African cases
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Unpacking the vertical: Ugandan cases
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Top-down verticalities
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Identifying ‘collaborative horizontalities’ in complex dynamic multilayered VET contexts
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Possibilities for collaborative horizontalities
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VET learning systems and practices (evidence of mediation)
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VET learning systems: reflecting on ecological time
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A multiscalar, spatiotemporal notion of skills ecosystems
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Conclusion
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5 Social Ecosystem for Skills Research: Inclusivity, Relationality and Informality
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Introduction
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General context and background
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Informality, learning and the potential for innovation
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Case studies: two lenses on informality and inclusion
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Gulu
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Alice
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Discussion
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Relational capability, relational agency and distributed expertise
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Gardening for change: facilitator skills for supporting richer horizontalities in the informal economy
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Unpacking horizontalities
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Facilitating mechanisms in horizontal learning in the informal economy
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Boundary crossing: why is it important and how does it happen?
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Conclusion
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6 Vocational Teachers as Mediators in Complex Ecosystems
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Vocational teachers in complex skills ecosystems
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Foregrounding vocational teachers in the skills ecosystem
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The ‘where’ and ‘what’ of vocational teaching: case observations
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Conventional institutional settings
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External interventions in the conventional system
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Vocational teaching embedded in work contexts
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Vocational teachers and collaborative horizontalities
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Discussion: Vocational teachers as mediators?
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Conclusion: An expanded notion of VET teachers
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7 Challenges in Transitioning Processes
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Introduction
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Reviewing the transitioning literature
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Lifecourse research
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Critical vocationalism
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Vignettes: Transition experiences
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Stories of transition
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Enabling and constraining factors
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Individual aspirations
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Improving transitions
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Towards a differentiated approach to understanding transition processes
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Conclusion
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8 The Role of the University as Mediator in a Skills Ecosystem Approach to VET
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Introduction
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Existing realities
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Key ingredients
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Main questions of this chapter
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Engaged research and the community-engaged university
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Alice: Experiences with the role of two universities
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Gulu: Experiences of a young university
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Examples of research activities in the VET Africa 4.0 project
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Discussion and insights gained
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Expanded ecosystem development via relational agency
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Innovation systems and social movement building, role of community actors and universities
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Community engagement in theory and practice
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Conclusion and agenda for the coming years
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9 Implications for VET Research, Policy and Practice
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The state of vocational education and training
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Adopting and expanding the social ecosystems for skills model
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Reflections on adopting a skills ecosystems approach
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Expanding the approach
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Some limitations to our approach
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Implications for VET policy and practice
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System thinking
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Rethinking VET’s purpose
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Addressing public provision
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Skills for the informal sector
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Knowledge, learning and teaching
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Rethinking private provision
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Universities as social ecosystem actors
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Towards a new language for thinking about VET policy and practice
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- Afterword: Towards a More Just and Sustainable Research Practice
- References
- Index
- 出版地 : 英國
- 語言 : 英文
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