Article 2009

Mapping the field of VET partnerships

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Taylor, Alison
Vocations and Learning
Journal · Vol. 2 · Issue 2 · pp. 127-151
Abstract

This paper looks critically at partnerships in education and training by presenting a case study of a community-level partnership aimed at promoting high school apprenticeships in Ontario Canada. The analysis maps the field of social relations within this partnership in order to reveal institutionally-based struggles and their implications for youth training and employment. The assumptions within policy that employers are actively engaged as partners and that they and other stakeholders share a unitary vision for education and training are challenged. Rather, partnerships reflect tensions among partners that must be addressed in order to improve the learning affordances for youth. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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Apprenticeship vocational education and training Partnership

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Author Affiliations
Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Funding & Acknowledgements
Canadian Council on Learning, CCL
Funding text 1: Apprenticeship Certification Act Construction craft worker Coordinated market economies International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Liberal market economies Ministry of Education Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities North American Free Trade Agreement Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) Provincial Advisory Committees School-College-Work Initiative (SCWI) Specialist High Skills Major program (SHSM) Training Delivery Agent Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Act Vocational Education and Training; Funding text 2: Acknowledgments This research is supported by a grant from the Canadian Council on Learning. I would also like to thank Susan Braedley and Tom Johnstone for their help during the data collection phase, and graduate research assistant Terrie Lynn Thompson for her help with proofreading transcripts and preliminary data analysis.
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