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Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth Knight

    1. Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Ann-Marie Bathmaker

    1. School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  3. Gavin Moodie

    1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  4. Kevin Orr

    1. School of Education & Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

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  5. Susan Webb

    1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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  6. Leesa Wheelahan

    1. Centre for the Study of Canadian & International Higher Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  • Explores new forms of higher vocational education on a global scale
  • Asks how the sector is changing to the demands of the 21st century
  • Highlights similarities and differences between developments

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Framing Equity and Access to High Skills

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Elizabeth Knight, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Gavin Moodie, Kevin Orr, Susan Webb, Leesa Wheelahan
      Pages 3-7

    3. Higher Vocational Education and the Matter of Equity

      • Susan Webb
      Pages 9-35

  3. Higher Vocational Education: Country and Province Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Of Human Capital and Human Rights: Educational Reform and Institutional Hierarchies in Chilean Higher Education

      • Cristian M. Lincovil Belmar
      Pages 39-57

    3. Higher Vocational Education in England in the 2010s: Positioning, Purpose, and Possibilities in a Highly Stratified, High Participation System of Higher Education

      • Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Kevin Orr
      Pages 59-80

    4. Higher Level Vocational Education in South Africa: Dilemmas of a Differentiated System

      • Joy Papier, Seamus Needham
      Pages 81-101

    5. Higher Vocational Education in Canada: The Continuing Predominance of Two-Year Diploma Programmes

      • Michael L. Skolnik
      Pages 103-124

    6. The Origins and Contemporary Development of Work-Based Higher Education in Germany: Lessons for Anglophone Countries?

      • Lukas Graf, Justin J. W. Powell
      Pages 125-144

    7. Higher Vocational Qualifications: Differing Approaches Within the United Kingdom to Meeting Skills Needs for the Twenty-First Century

      • Fiona Reeve, Jim Gallacher
      Pages 145-167

    8. Post-secondary Higher Education Pathways to Workforce Credential Attainment in the United States of America

      • Deborah L. Floyd, Angela Garcia Falconetti, Lazaro Camacho Jr
      Pages 169-188

    9. Higher Education in Vocational Institutions in Australia: What’s Going On?

      • Steven Hodge, Elizabeth Knight, Shaun Rawolle, Susan Webb
      Pages 189-214

    10. Quebec cégeps as Models of Social and Curricular Adaptation

      • Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée, Olivier Bégin-Caouette
      Pages 215-237

  4. Reflections on Systems and Higher Vocational Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. A Typology of Tertiary Education Systems

      • Gavin Moodie
      Pages 241-267

    3. Why Isn’t There More Higher Education in Colleges in Liberal Market Countries?

      • Leesa Wheelahan
      Pages 269-290

    4. Higher Vocational Education as a Work of Art

      • Trevor Gale
      Pages 291-317

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 319-321
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About this book

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education. Examining a range of geographic contexts, the editors and contributors aim to address these contexts and highlight various similarities and differences in developments. They locate their analyses within the various political and socio-economic contexts, which can make particular reforms possible and achievable in one context and almost unthinkable in another. Ultimately, the book promotes a critical understanding of evolving provisions of higher vocational education, refusing assumptions that policy borrowing from apparently ‘successful’ countries offers a straightforward model forothers to adopt.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Elizabeth Knight

  • School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Ann-Marie Bathmaker

  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Gavin Moodie

  • School of Education & Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    Kevin Orr

  • Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

    Susan Webb

  • Centre for the Study of Canadian & International Higher Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Leesa Wheelahan

About the editors

Elizabeth Knight is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems within Victoria University, Australia.

Ann-Marie Bathmaker is Professor of Vocational and Higher Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Gavin Moodie is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education in the University of Toronto, Canada.

Kevin Orr is Professor of Work and Learning and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Susan Webb is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia and was previously Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Leesa Wheelahan is the William G. Davis Chair of Community College Leadership at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education

  • Editors: Elizabeth Knight, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Gavin Moodie, Kevin Orr, Susan Webb, Leesa Wheelahan

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84502-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84501-8Published: 09 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84504-9Published: 10 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84502-5Published: 08 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2524-6313

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-6321

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 321

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Career Skills, Educational Policy and Politics

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