Worldwide Good Practices in Managing the Orientation of Technical Education Towards Sustainable Development

Costache Cătălina () and Dumitrascu Dănuţ Dumitru ()
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Costache Cătălina: Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania
Dumitrascu Dănuţ Dumitru: Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania

Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, 2015, vol. 1, issue 1, 10

Abstract: Our study aims to provide a global picture of good sustainable practices and initiatives in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). In order to outline the major positive practices worldwide, a document analysis was performed on international relevant documents (reports, academic studies, guides, rules and regulations, work papers). This method was complemented by discussions with local representatives of school administration, who provided specific evidence on curricular and extracurricular activities conducted locally. Our findings confirm that various sustainable initiatives in TVET took place at an international level, mostly involving multiple stakeholders in the public sector, private sector and civil society. However, it is difficult to assess the effectiveness of these initiatives due to the unequal cooperation of several countries in responding to the UNESCO questionnaires, and to the targets they address. Many of the initiatives outlined in our study appear to have a strong cultural and ethnical dimension. The organization of such examples of good practices according to the different types of learning systems (formal, non-formal and informal education) provides a large framework for different Education actors at international, national and local level, allowing them to inspire when making policies decisions to integrate Sustainable Development in Technical educational courses.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/cplbu-2015-0029

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