A Tale of Two Reforms: Institutional Change in Vocational Education and Training in Norway and Sweden in the 1990s

Autor/inn/en	Persson Thunqvist, Daniel; Hagen Tønder, Anna; Reegård, Kaja
Titel	A Tale of Two Reforms: Institutional Change in Vocational Education and Training in Norway and Sweden in the 1990s
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 18 (2019) 3, S.298-313 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/1474904118823104
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Educational Change; Educational History; Higher Education; Apprenticeships; Neoliberalism; Lifelong Learning; Politics of Education; Secondary Education; Norway; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Apprenticeship; Lehre; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sekundarbereich; Norwegen; Schweden
Abstract	Political reforms of the 1990s ushered in sweeping socio-economic changes in the Nordic countries, including radical changes in their vocational education and training systems. However, the reforms led to a school-based vocational education and training system with a strong orientation towards higher education in Sweden, and a hybrid system with a stronger apprenticeship component in Norway. Drawing on comparative literature about institutional change in education systems, the aim of this article is to consider why such different vocational education and training systems emerged in countries that shared numerous commonalities following political reforms with similar neoliberal agendas. Our findings, based on secondary data analyses, show that national education reforms played a key role in transforming vocational education and training systems to promote greater flexibility and lifelong learning in line with societal changes. They also show that differences in the roles played by the social partners in Sweden and Norway in the reform processes, in conjunction with differences in political priorities, have led to major differences despite the similarities of national histories and attitudes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01