International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET)

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Karen Evans, Michael Gessler, Johanna Lasonen, Margaret Malloch, and Martin Mulder

From European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), European Educational Research Association
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Volume 5, issue 4, 2018

"The force that keeps you going": Enthusiasm in vocational education and training (VET) teachers' work pp. 244-263

Sanna Wenström, Satu Uusiautti and Kaarina Määttä

Higher education in Switzerland: Predictors of becoming engaged in higher vocational or higher academic education - the role of workplace factors pp. 264-284

Christof Nägele, Markus P. Neuenschwander and Patsawee Rodcharoen

Staying in the loop: Formal feedback mechanisms connecting vocational training to the world of work in Europe pp. 285-306

Jörg Markowitsch and Günter Hefler

The experiences of learners with disabilities in mainstream vocational training in Nepal pp. 307-327

Eka Raj Adhikari

Volume 5, issue 3, 2018

Social dimensions and participation in vocational education and training: An introduction in the special issue pp. 172-177

Franz Xaver Kaiser and Susann Krugmann

Crossing boundaries: VET, the labour market and social justice pp. 178-190

James Avis

Theme centered interaction in critical vocational teacher education: An introduction into an ethical founded method and model to strengthen self-reflexive autonomy and socially responsible action pp. 191-207

Franz Xaver Kaiser

The "future of employment" on the shop floor: Why production jobs are less susceptible to computerization than assumed pp. 208-225

Sabine Pfeiffer

Professional desires and career decisions: Effects of professional interests, role models, and internship in lower secondary school pp. 226-243

Markus P. Neuenschwander, Jan Hofmann, Andreas Jüttler and Stephan Schumann

Volume 5, issue 2, 2018

The prediction of professional success in apprenticeship: The role of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities, of interests and personality pp. 82-111

Jennifer Diedrich, Aljoscha C. Neubauer and Anna Ortner

Decision-making processes among potential dropouts in vocational education and training and adult learning pp. 111-129

Vibe Aarkrog, Bjarne Wahlgren, Christian Hougaard Larsen, Kristina Mariager-Anderson and Susanne Gottlieb

Critical practice study of nursing evaluated by teachers pp. 130-139

Jessica Shearer and Johanna Lasonen

Factors influencing the value of CPD activities among VET teachers pp. 140-164

Per Andersson, Mattias Hellgren and Susanne Köpsén

Volume 5, issue 1, 2018

Effects of augmented reality on student achievement and self-efficacy in vocational education and training pp. 1-18

Mustafa Sirakaya and Ebru Kilic Cakmak

The state-of-the-art of collaborative technologies for initial vocational education: A systematic literature review pp. 19-41

Beat A. Schwendimann, Bram De Wever, Raija Hämäläinen and Alberto A. P. Cattaneo

Vocational teaching-learning through the eyes of undergraduate vocational students in Malta: A qualitative exploratory study pp. 42-63

Alison Said

Who is going to build the wall? A building trades crisis in the U.S.A pp. 64-76

Ian Toppin

Volume 4, issue 4, 2017

Short-term benefits, long-term harm? Alternative training to apprenticeships in Norway pp. 306-324

Tove Mogstad Aspøy and Torgeir Nyen

Towards the compatibility of professional and scientific learning outcomes: Insights and options in the context of competence orientation pp. 325-345

Volker Rein

Enhancing social competence for disadvantaged youth in pre-vocational education: Model development through design-based research pp. 346-368

Ida Kristina Kühn

Resource utilisation and curriculum implementation in community colleges in Kenya pp. 369-381

Peter Changilwa Kigwilu and Winston Jumba Akala

Volume 4, issue 3, 2017

Going back-to-school in vocational education and training: Introduction pp. 196-205

Louis Cournoyer, Geneviève Fournier and Jonas Masdonati

Why returning to VET? Results of a qualitative comparative study about English and German car mechatronics pp. 206-225

Erika Edith Gericke

Decision-making rationales among Quebec VET student aged 25 and older pp. 226-248

Louis Cournoyer and Frédéric Deschenaux

The reasons behind a career change through vocational education and training pp. 249-269

Jonas Masdonati, Geneviève Fournier and Imane Zineb Lahrizi

When work comes first: Young adults in vocational education and training in Norway pp. 270-288

Anna Hagen Tønder and Tove Mogstad Aspøy

VET again: Now as a VET teacher pp. 289-305

Henriette Duch and Karen Egedal Andreasen

Volume 4, issue 2, 2017

Finnish WorldSkills achievers' vocational talent development and school-to-work pathways pp. 95-116

Laura Pylväs and Petri Nokelainen

Humanistic elements in the educational practice at a United States sub-baccalaureate technical college pp. 117-145

Peng Chen and Carsten Schmidtke

Three types of tightrope dance in the comeback process pp. 146-163

Mette Bunting, Torill Aagot Halvorsen and Geir H. Moshuus

The lack of collaboration between companies and schools in the German dual apprenticeship system: Historical background and recent data pp. 164-195

Michael Gessler

Volume 4, issue 1, 2017

Ensuring curriculum relevance in vocational education and training: Epistemological perspectives in a curriculum research project pp. 1-19

Hilde Hiim

Supporting vocational students' development of preventive behaviour at work: A phenomenological analysis of teachers' experiences pp. 20-46

Alexandra Lecours and Pierre-Yves Therriault

Developing schemas for assessing social competences among unskilled young people pp. 47-68

Vibe Aarkrog and Bjarne Wahlgren

Entrepreneurship education at Indian industrial training institutes: A case study of the prescribed, adopted and enacted curriculum in and around Bangalore pp. 69-94

Lea Zenner, Kumar Kothandaraman and Matthias Pilz

Volume 3, issue 3, 2016

Systemic modelling for relating labour market to vocational education pp. 166-184

Evangelos C. Papakitsos

Universities' engagement with vocationalism: Historical perspective pp. 185-211

Pericles Rospigliosi, Tom Bourner and Linda Heath

Predictors of career adaptability skill among higher education students in Nigeria pp. 212-229

Amos Shaibu Ebenehi, Abdullah Mat Rashid and Ab Rahim Bakar

What would Humboldt say: A case of general Bildung in vocational education? pp. 230-249

Ruhi Tyson

Volume 3, issue 2, 2016

Training patterns of German companies in India, China, Japan and the USA: What really works? pp. 66-87

Matthias Pilz

Examining barriers to internationalisation created by diverse systems and structures in vocational education and training pp. 88-105

Angela Joy Shaw, Kieron John Shaw and Suzanne Blake

Context-driven entrepreneurial education in vocational schools pp. 106-126

Sharmila Sandirasegarane, Staci Sutermaster, Alyssa Gill, Jennifer Volz and Khanjan Mehta

Determinants of transfer of training: A comprehensive literature review pp. 127-165

Cornelia Tonhäuser and Laura Büker

Volume 3, issue 1, 2016

Developmental TVET Rhetoric In-Action: The White Paper for Post-School Education and Training in South Africa pp. 1-15

Salim Akoojee

Europeanization in VET Policy as a Process of Reshaping the Educational Space pp. 16-28

Krista Loogma

Implementing the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) at National Level: Some Insights from the PEN Leonardo Project pp. 29-45

Suzanne Gatt and Kim Faurschou

Three-Capital Approach to the Study of Young People who Excel in Vocational Occupations: A Case of WorldSkills Competitors and Entrepreneurship pp. 46-65

Maia Chankseliani and Susan James Relly

Volume 2, issue 4, 2015

Non-Formal Education in International Comparison: Patterns of Participation and Investment in Selected European Countries pp. 239-267

Katrin Kaufmann

Governance for Learning Outcomes in European Policy-Making: Qualification Frameworks Pushed through the Open Method of Coordination pp. 268-283

Odd Bjørn Ure

Cooperative VET in Training Networks: Analysing the Free-Rider Problem in a Sociology-of-Conventions Perspective pp. 284-307

Regula Julia Leemann and Christian Imdorf

The Academic Takes it All? A Comparison of Returns to Investment in Education between Graduates and Apprentices in Canada pp. 308-325

Susanne Kopatz and Matthias Pilz

Volume 2, issue 3 (Special Issue), 2015

Vocational Didactics: Core Assumptions and Approaches from Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain and Sweden pp. 152-160

Michael Gessler and Lázaro Moreno Herrera

Transitions and Diversity in Didactics: An Exploration Searching for Implications for Vocational Education and Training pp. 161-169

Lázaro Moreno Herrera

What Sense Can We Make of the Possibility of Vocational Didactics? An Approach from the Spanish School-Based System Complemented by Non-Formal Vocational Training pp. 170-181

Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá and Alicia Ros-Garrido

Re-Contextualizing Vocational Didactics in Norwegian Vocational Education and Training pp. 182-194

Hæge Nore

Reforming Vocational Didactics by Implementing a New VET Teacher Education in Denmark: Tensions and Challenges Reflected in Interviews with Vocational College Teachers pp. 195-213

Henriette Duch and Karen E. Andreasen

From the Reality of Work to Grounded Work-Based Learning in German Vocational Education and Training: Background, Concept and Tools pp. 214-238

Michael Gessler and Falk Howe

Volume 2, issue 2, 2015

WorldSkills UK Training Managers: Midas Touch or Fool’s Gold? pp. 85-98

Stephanie Wilde and Susan James Relly

The Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: Current Practices at Polytechnics in Bangladesh and its Effects in Developing Students’ Competences pp. 99-118

Faruque A. Haolader, Md Ramjan Ali and Khan Md Foysol

Uncertified and Teaching: Industry Professionals in Career and Technical Education Classrooms pp. 119-135

Geralyn E. Stephens

Twenty Years of Basic Vocational Education Provision in Spain: Changes and Trends pp. 137-151

Fernando Marhuenda, Francesca Salvà, Almudena A. Navas Saurin and Miriam Abiétar López

Volume 2, issue 1, 2015

Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives pp. 1-24

Ingela Andersson, Gun-Britt Wärvik and Per-Olof Thång

Qualification of Adult Educators in Europe: Insights From the Portuguese Case pp. 25-38

Catarina Paulos

Assessment of Prior Learning in Adult Vocational Education and Training pp. 39-58

Vibe Aarkrog and Bjarne Wahlgren

Difficulties in Defining Social-Emotional Intelligence, Competences and Skills - a Theoretical Analysis and Structural Suggestion pp. 59-84

Moana Monnier