Network Sessions as ECER 2012

Network: 02. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)

02 SES 01, Network Opening

Tuesday, 2012-09-18, 13:15-14:45, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Michael Gessler

  1. Network Opening

    2. Michael Gessler  Fernando Marhuenda 

02 SES 02 A, VET Policies: European Developments And Specific Change Agendas

Tuesday, 2012-09-18, 15:15-16:15, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Margaret Eleanor Malloch

  1. Vocational Education and Training in the European Union; Policy Developments, Research and Research Agenda

    2. Martin Mulder 

  2. European Perspective and Contributions to Vocational Education and Training and Environmental Awareness, in the Education for Sustainable Development Context *

    3. Alberto Martinez Villar  Gutierrez-Perez Jose  Dr. Francisco Javier Perales Palacios 

  3. VET Schools` Strategies in Adapting to Educational Reforms: the Concept of Social Innovation Applied to the Analysis of Educational Change

    4. Meril Ümarik  Krista Loogma  Külliki Tafel-Viia 

02 SES 02 B, Teachers' And Trainers' Professional Development: Role Of Practice

Tuesday, 2012-09-18, 15:15-16:15, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Marja-Leena Stenström

  1. Vocational Training, Between Learning of the Trainees and Professional Development of the Trainers

    2. Otilia Holgado 

  2. Collective teacher learning through experimentation in VET

    3. Loek FM Nieuwenhuis  Irma C Van der Neut  Kirsten E de Ries 

02 SES 03 A, Policy Interventions On VET And CVET - Measures And Impact

Tuesday, 2012-09-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Lars Heinemann

  1. Reducing the Skills Specificity of Vocational Education Programmes in an Employer-Led Skills Development System: The Case of Switzerland

    2. Markus Maurer 

  2. Legal determinations in actions supporting Continuing Vocational Education and Training (CVET).

    3. María José Chisvert 

  3. The Impact of Vocational Secondary Schools on the Local and the Regional Identity

    4. Jiri Votava 

02 SES 03 B, Symposium: Connectivity And Integrated Competence Development

Tuesday, 2012-09-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Carmela Aprea

  1. Connectivity and Integrated Competence Development in Vocational and Professional Education and Training

    2. Carmela Aprea  Viviana Sappa  Christoph Arn  Markus Ammann  Anna Maria Ajello  Marja-Leena Stenström  Daniel Pittich  Ralf Tenberg  Karin Wirth  Alberto Cattaneo  Elena Boldrini  Alicja Sroka  Annette Ostendorf  Claudia Di Marco 

  2. Perceived Challenges and Potentialities of School-Workplace Connectivity in Dual VET Systems: Voices from Switzerland and Germany

    3. Viviana Sappa  Daniel Pittich  Ralf Tenberg  Karin Wirth 

  3. Using Digital Technologies to Foster the Connection between School and Workplace Learning

    4. Elena Boldrini  Christoph Arn  Alberto Cattaneo  Alicja Sroka 

  4. Integrating the World of Work into Higher Vocational Schools in Austria: Concepts, Current Practice and Future Perspectives

    5. Annette Ostendorf  Markus Ammann 

  5. Promoting Change by the Stage: A Tool for Learning and Doing

    6. Anna Maria Ajello  Claudia Di Marco 

02 SES 03 C, Access To VET: Requirements, Motivating And Readiness

Tuesday, 2012-09-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen

  1. The Impact of Academic Preparedness of Immigrant Students on Completion of Commercial Vocational Education and Training

    2. Beatrice S. Rangvid 

  2. Formal and informal educational requirements for access to vocational education: Who is most affected by the mismatch?

    3. Marina Trebbels 

02 SES 04 A, Symposium: Recognition Assessment Of Informal Competences

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 09:00-10:30, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: David Guile

  1. Recognition and Assessment of Informal Competences for Specific Occupational Areas: Lessons from Four European Countries

    2. Natasha Kersh  Prof Anna Maria Ajello  Cristina Belardi  Daniela Zvinca  Rigo van Raai  David Guile  Graham Attwell 

  2. Implementing Validation Procedures for Caregivers in Italy: A Proposal of a Common Model for Italian Regions

    3. Prof Anna Maria Ajello  Cristina Belardi 

  3. The Importance of Informal and Non-formal Skills for Job-Seekers and Ways to Recognize and Evaluate them in the Romanian Context

    4. Natasha Kersh  Daniela Zvinca 

  4. Nationwide VPL Systems? Just Quality Assurance Should Do the Job!

    5. Rigo van Raai 

  5. Recognition of tacit skills and prior learning: creating mechanisms for capturing informal competences in the workplace context: UK context

    6. Dr Natasha Kersh 

02 SES 04 B, Work-Based Learning: Linking VET, Enterprises And Professional Practice

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 09:00-10:30, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Jörg Markowitsch

  1. : Co-makership! Linking VET and professional practice: lessons from Dutch experience

    2. Aimee Hoeve  Hester Smulders 

  2. Challenges for Swedish VET-teachers in Upper Secondary Apprenticeship

    3. Viveca Lindberg  Ingrid Berglund 

  3. Workplace Learning – How It Emerges and Why It May Not Occur?

    4. Katja Vähäsantanen 

02 SES 04 C, Completing VET: Drop-Out, Vocational Identity And Progression

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 09:00-10:30, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Trine Deichman-Sørensen

  1. Policies to Increase Retention in VET

    2. Christian Helms Jørgensen 

  2. Vocational Identity in a Hybrid Context in-between School and Work

    3. Hæge Nore  Anna Hagen Tønder  Trine Deichman-Sørensen 

  3. Permeability in Education and Training: Typology and Comparative Analysis

    4. Andreas Saniter  Karin Luomi-Messerer  Wolfgang Wittig  Isabelle Le Mouillour 

02 SES 05 A, VET And Lifelong Learning: Adult Learning, Hybrid Qualifications And Credit Transfer

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen

  1. Hybrid Qualifications - a way forward? The case of VET policy in Switzerland

    2. Philipp Gonon 

  2. The Paradox Of Scotland: Limited Credit Transfer In A Credit-based Lifelong Learning System

    3. Cathy Howieson  David Raffe 

  3. Turning Points in Adult Learning Trajectories

    4. Karen Evans  Edmund Waite  Martina Behrens 

02 SES 05 B, Round Table: Exploring Multiple Conceptions Of Financial Literacy

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Anna Maria Ajello

  1. Exploring Multiple Conceptions of Financial Literacy

    2. Carmela Aprea  Klaus Breuer  Peter Davies  Eveline Wuttke 

02 SES 05 C, VET's Prestige, VET’s Students Career, Integration And Inclusion

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Trine Deichman-Sørensen

  1. Showing (little) promise? – Understanding cross-countries differences in VET’s prestige and VET’s students career aspirations

    2. Jörg Markowitsch  Günter Hefler 

  2. Integration of disadvantaged youth in vocational schools: Concept, Didactics and Impacts

    3. Michael Gessler  Kristina Kühn 

  3. Developing “A Roadmap To Inclusion”: Mapping Policies and Cultures to Champion Inclusion For SEN Students in Vocational Education and Training

    4. Sheena Bell  Andrew Smith  Hasso Kukemelk  Karel Pancocha 

02 SES 05.5 PS, General Poster Exhibition

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 12:30-14:00, Room: FCEE - Poster Exhibition Area, Chair:

  1. VET Teachers' Expertise in Finland

    2. Maarit Miettinen  Harri Keurulainen 

  2. Career Aspirations and the Process of Career Decisions – First Results of the DAB Study

    3. Franziska Jaepel  David Glauser  Rolf Becker 

  3. Assessing intermediate level work in comparative VET research

    4. Marthe Geiben  Tobias Wolfgarten  Philipp Christian Grollmann 

02 SES 06 B, Professional Qualifications And Identities In Social Services

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Andreas Saniter

  1. Incidence of External Practices of Professional Identity

    2. Enriqueta Molina Ruiz  Antonio Burgos Garcia  Purificacion Perez Garcia 

  2. Employment and Further Education in Social Service Occupations: between Professionalization and Precarization

    3. Julia Prausa 

  3. Assignments And Qualification Of Teachers In Further Education For Early Childhood Educators – First Results Of The Research Project KoprofF

    4. Christina Buschle  Tanya Freytag  Aiga von Hippel  Carola Iller 

02 SES 06 C, Studies On Teachers, Learners And Pedagogical Relations

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Vibe Aarkrog

  1. VET Teachers and Teaching: What Counts?

    2. Margaret Eleanor Malloch  Len Cairns 

  2. “Learner voice”: Who speaks? Who listens?

    3. Lawrence Angus  Barry Golding  Peter Lavender  Annette Foley 

  3. Pedagogical Relation in Work Integration Social Enterprises. An application of Basil Bernstein's Model.

    4. Almudena A. Navas Saurin  Clara Arbiol i Gonzalez  Elena Gimenez Urraco  Joan Carles Bernad Garcia 

02 SES 06 A, Digital Support For Learning: Perspectives For VET And Adult Learners

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: M'Hamed Dif

  1. Online People Tagging: Social Mobile Network(ing) Services and Work-based Learning

    2. John Cook  Norbert Pachler 

  2. Education For Vocational Teachers – Digital Storytelling As A Tool For Reflection

    3. Else Snoen  May-Britt Waale 

  3. Improving Opportunities for Older People in Work and Community Activity

    4. Panayiotis Angelides 

02 SES 07 A, Didactics, Self-Organised Learning And Workplace Learning In VET

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: M'Hamed Dif

  1. A didactic for Vocational Education and Training? – Critical exploration of the relation between general and subject didactics

    2. Lázaro Moreno Herrera 

  2. Workplace Learning, VET and Vocational Pedagogy: the transformation of practice

    3. James Avis 

  3. Formal Education versus Practical Work Experience - Mapping the Gap in the Maritime Sector in Norway

    4. Kaja Reegård  Jon Rogstad 

02 SES 07 B, Assesment Of Competences: Analyses Of Diverse Practices

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Andreas Saniter

  1. How to Measure Professional Competency – An Analysis of Current Assessment Practices in Commercial VET Programs –

    2. Viola Klotz  Esther Prof. Dr. Winther 

  2. What Do Skills Demonstrations Reveal? The Reliabilitys and Confidence in the Assessment Process of Skills demonstrations in upper secondary VET

    3. Mari Räkköläinen 

  3. Examining the Role and Competencies of the Teachers in the Danish Vocational Education and Training System

    4. Arnt Vestergaard Louw  Vibe Aarkrog 

02 SES 07 C, Adult Learning: Second Chance, Segregation, Citizenship And Support Service Provision

Wednesday, 2012-09-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Lars Heinemann

  1. Second chance or extended formal education? Adults participation in formal education (FED)

    2. Katrin Kaufmann  Sarah Widany 

  2. Oppressive Reminiscences and Submerged Citizenship: Participation Logics in Adult Education and Training

    3. Andreia Caetano  Joaquim Luís Coimbra  José Manuel Castro 

  3. The evaluation of Support Service Provision to Higher Education Students at two Universities in the United Kingdom

    4. Ann Ooms  Diane Marks-Maran 

02 SES 08 A, E-Facilitators And Web Services For Vocational Teacher Education

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 09:00-10:30, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Gerald Heidegger

  1. blogspot.com as the means of internationalizing VET teacher education

    2. Ingrid Henning Loeb 

  2. E-Facilitator - The Rise Of A New Profession

    3. Hans-Werner Franz  Christoph Kaletka  Bastian Pelka 

  3. E-Facilitators: Functional Hybrids between ICT Teaching and Community Management

    4. Christoph Kaletka  Bastian Pelka  Hans-Werner Franz 

02 SES 08 B, Symposium: Developing, Not Overthrowing – Policy Learning

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 09:00-10:30, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Andreas Saniter

  1. Developing not Overthrowing - Lessons in Policy Learning to Improve Work-based Learning in Lithuania

    2. Andreas Saniter  M'Hamed Dif  Jo Cutter  Vidmantas Tutlys  Rainer Bremer  Rita Baidokaitė  Danguolė Šidlauskienė  Jurgita Pranculyte  Louis Spankis  Jonathan Winterton 

  2. Curriculum Design and the Introduction of Apprenticeship in Lithuania – Methodological Challenges and Alternative Solutions

    3. Andreas Saniter  Vidmantas Tūtlys  Jonathan Winterton 

  3. Funding and Stakeholder Roles in the Development of Apprenticeship – What Can Be Learnt from the Experience of Other Countries?

    4. M'Hamed Dif  Danguolė Šidlauskienė  Jurgita Pranculyte  Louis Spankis 

  4. Introduction and Development of Apprenticeship in the Changing School Based VET System of Lithuania: Methodological Issues of Policy Learning

    5. Vidmantas Tūtlys  Rainer Bremerdanguole.sidlauskiene@chambers.lt  Rita Baidokaitė 

02 SES 08 C, Transitions, Career Learning And Work Experience Placements

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 09:00-10:30, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Karen Evans

  1. School-Mediated Employer Engagement and Labour Market Outcomes: Insights From a New UK Study

    2. Anthony Mann 

  2. Maximising Opportunities For Career Learning Through Work Experience Placements

    3. Jill Collins  Pat Morton  Glynis Dean 

  3. An Ecological Framework for Understanding and Supporting School-to-work Transitions for Young People at a Time of Economic Crisis

    4. Ann Hodgson  Ken Spours 

02 SES 09 A, Collaborative Learning And Training In SMEs

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCEE - Aula 2.5, Chair: Michael Gessler

  1. Developing Collaborative Blended Learning and Knowledge Development in SMEs through Webquest 2.0

    2. Graham Attwell  Maria Perifanou 

  2. Worker's Participation in Training and SME's Competitiveness

    3. Eduardo Figueira  Vítor Rosa  Timothy Koehnen  António Fragoso 

02 SES 09 B, Work-Based Learning: Basic Skills and Curriculum Innovations

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: David Guile

  1. The Challenge of Establishing Sustainable ‘Basic Skills’ Provision: Organizational ‘Strategies’ and Individual ‘Tactics’

    2. Karen Evans  Edmund Waite 

  2. Encouraging Employers to contribute towards Curriculum Innovations: The Case for Employability Skills Development

    3. Deesha Chadha 

  3. Motivating Young People for Vocational Education and Training: Between Political Demands and Everyday Practice

    4. Pia Cort 

02 SES 09 C, Transitions: Career Guidance, Pathways, And Educational Mobility

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Ludger Deitmer

  1. School-to-Work Transition: Career Guidance’s Needs among First Year Vocational Training’ Students

    2. Soledad Romero-Rodríguez  Víctor Alvarez Rojo  Soledad García-Gómez 

  2. Different Educational Pathways in Vocational Education and Training in Finland

    3. Marja-Leena Stenström 

  3. Permeability and Educational Mobility in the Swiss VET System.

    4. Jakob Kost 

02 SES 09.5, Network Meeting

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 12:30-13:30, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Michael Gessler

  1. Network Meeting

    2. Michael Gessler 

02 SES 10 D, Competence Assessment: Methodological Issues And Approaches

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCEE - Aula 2.8, Chair: Lars Heinemann

  1. Assessment of VET Students’ Competencies: Student Assessments Compared with Assessments by Their Coaches

    2. Harm J.A. Biemans 

  2. International Comparative Competence Assessment

    3. Lars Heinemann  Ursel Hauschildt  Felix Rauner 

  3. Occupational validation as design framework for competence assessment in VET: An exploratory study

    4. Trine Deichman-Sørensen  Leif Christian Lahn  Haege Nore 

02 SES 10 A, Organisations, Labour Market And Vocational School Management

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Lorenz Lassnigg

  1. Being a School Administrator in a Vocational School: The Challenges and the Problems

    2. Meltem Cengel 

  2. Developing Innovation Competencies for Organizations

    3. Joaquin Moreno 

  3. Skilled Migration, Women and the Role of Education and Training in Regional Australia

    4. Susan Webb  Denise Beale  Anita Devos 

02 SES 10 B, Innovative Competences: Apprenticeships, Capabilities And Learning Environments

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Ludger Deitmer

  1. Self-organized learning in vocational schools as standard teaching style? Results of an experimental study.

    2. Christof Nägele  Ivano Laudonia 

  2. Innovative Capabilities and Apprenticeships

    3. Ludger Deitmer 

  3. Being Competent through Enactive Knowing; Applying Enactivism to Improve Learning Environments In VET.

    4. Hendrik Kupper 

02 SES 10 C, Studies On Early School Leaving And Integrative Strategies

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Martin Mulder

  1. Every Career starts with a First Step: Drama Intervention as an Innovative Person-Focused Approach

    2. Gudrun Vater 

  2. "Participation of Women and Men with intellectual Disabilities in Labour market policy measures"

    3. Helga Fasching 

  3. VET provision to combat early school leaving: the case of Spain

    4. Fernando Marhuenda  Almudena Navas  Míriam Abietar 

02 SES 11 A, VET In Asia-Pacific Region: Developments, Tensions And Issues

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen

  1. Education Inequality in Urban China

    2. Jifa Xiang 

  2. Social Reproduction and Curriculum Tracking in New Zealand Secondary Schools

    3. Rob Strathdee 

02 SES 11 B, Apprenticeship, Values And Interculturalism In Health Care

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Lars Heinemann

  1. Apprenticeship in the Public Sector. The Case of the Health Worker and the Child Care and Youth Worker in Norway

    2. Kaja Reegard  Torgeir Nyen  Anna Hagen Tønder 

  2. Intercultural Competence of Upper Secondary Vocational Teachers in the Field of Health and Social Care

    3. Tuija Hannele Itkonen 

02 SES 11 C, Educational Leave, Intergenerational Learning and Social Capital

Thursday, 2012-09-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: FCT - Aula 23, Chair: Martin Mulder

  1. A Programme of Educational Leave - Evaluation Problems and Strategies

    2. Lorenz Lassnigg 

  2. Social Capital and VET - Researching Coupling of 'Want' to 'Need': An Australian Comparison with Europe

    3. Lewis Hughes  Libby Hughes 

  3. The Contribution of Intergenerational Learning Arrangements to Active Aging and Intergenerational Solidarity

    4. Julia Franz 

02 SES 13 A, Work-Based Learning: Insights Into EU-Projects And Case Studies

Friday, 2012-09-21, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen

  1. Just like the Real Thing: Work Based Learning in School Organised Settings

    2. Jeroen Onstenk  Michel Jehee 

  2. Work-Based Learning in vocational education and training (VET) and in higher education (HE) – Approaches and Developments in Recent European Projects

    3. Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen 

  3. Care and existence: Adult students in health and social care encounter with practice

    4. Katarina Lagercrantz All 

02 SES 13 B, Policy Developments In VET: Comparitive Analyses

Friday, 2012-09-21, 11:00-12:30, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Michael Gessler

  1. Downward Spiral of Labor Market Chances of Roma Students and VET in Hungary and Spain. A Comparative Perspective.

    2. Bálint-Ábel Bereményi  Anna Kende 

  2. The Effect of Education Decentralization on School-Leadership in Vocational Schools: Prerequisites for Application in Egypt according to the German Experience

    3. Iman Ashmawy 

  3. Competence Assessment of Baccalaureus Students

    4. Bozana Knezevic 

  4. Evidence Based Approaches towards Reducing Early School Leaving via Cross-Sectoral Cooperation

    5. Manzanares Asuncion  José Sánchez-Santamaría 

02 SES 14 B, Round Table: Recognition And Validation Of The Prior Experience

Friday, 2012-09-21, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 22, Chair: Otilia Holgado

  1. Recognition and Validation of the Prior Experience, a Ticket for University Admission ?

    2. Otilia Holgado  Patrick Mayen  Georgeta Ion  Antoaneta-Firuta Tacea  Elena Cano 

02 SES 14 A, Symposium: Promoting Personal Development, Cultural Education And Freedom Of Choice In Vocational And Social Re-Integration Processes For Young People

Friday, 2012-09-21, 15:30-17:00, Room: FCT - Aula 21, Chair: Gerald Heidegger

  1. Promoting Personal Development, Cultural Education and Freedom of Choice in Vocational and Social Re-Integration Processes for Young People

    2. Gerald Heidegger  Kerem Tolga Saatcioglu  Wiebke Petersen  Zdenka Wltavsky  Huseyin Ekiz  Eduardo Figueira  Manuel Ribeiro 

  2. Comprehensive guidance and support for young disadvantaged drop-outs in Europe – The aims of the Leonardo da Vinci Project “CoProIntegration”

    3. Gerald Heidegger  Kerem Tolga Saatcioglu 

  3. European Models of Self-Evaluation for Training the Trainers in Vocational and Social Re-Integration Programmes

    4. Wiebke Petersen  Gerald Heidegger 

  4. Inclusive Education for Disadvantaged Young People in Europe

    5. Zdenka Wltavsky 

  5. Training Trainers for Help Relationships with Young People at Risk of Abandonment

    6. Gerald Heidegger  Huseyin Ekiz 

  6. Relevance of Entrepreneurship in Compulsory Education – the Case of Portugal

    7. Eduardo Figueira 

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