JVET 2015: JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Friday, July 3rd Saturday, July 4th Sunday, July 5th

Friday, July 3rd

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12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:45 Session 2: PLENARY 1

Plenary 1

13:30
The Community College Role in Education for Middle Skill Jobs in the United States. (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3A
Location: Linbury
14:55
‘In the driving seat’, or reluctant passengers? Employer engagement in qualifications development: some evidence from two recent 14-19 qualification reforms. (abstract)
15:20
Tertiarisation as a major challenge for the VET system – what happens with apprenticeships in Germany and Switzerland in the face of an “academic drift”? (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3B
Location: Morley Fletcher
14:55
Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Make A Difference?: Evidence from Los Angeles (abstract)
15:20
NEETs a Conservative Praxis (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3C
Location: Seminar room A
14:55
The impact of compulsory mathematics on post-16 vocational students in England (abstract)
15:20
Language awareness and sensitizing as a challenge in vocational training (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3D
Location: Lecture room B
14:55
The gap between Widening Participation and Social Mobility: the case of Higher Education provision in English Further Education colleges (abstract)
15:20
Changing patterns of work, education and social mobility amongst British Sikh families: an analysis over three generations (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3E
Location: Memorial Room
14:55
Vocational education for the future – contradictions in policy and practice (abstract)
15:25
Situating ‘work’ in vocational curricula - lessons from Teach Too Phase 1 (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3F
Location: Nash West
14:55
What types of feedback support (assessors’) professional learning? (abstract)
15:20
Assessment in the modern age: challenges and solutions (abstract)
14:55-16:25 Session 3G
Location: Nash East
14:55
Impact of vocational skills competition experience to young adults’ career development (abstract)
15:20
Skills competitions: a winning formula for enhancing the quality of vocational education? (abstract)
16:25-16:45Coffee Break
16:45-18:15 Session 4A
Chair:
Location: Linbury
16:45
Further, technical and vocational education and training in England: a journey through time and space (abstract)
17:10
Employability, knowledge and vocational learning: from Liberal Studies to Functional Skills (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 4B
Location: Morley Fletcher
16:45
Constructing new vocational pathways through school: an examination of the introduction of University Technical Colleges in England (abstract)
17:10
Towards preparing young people for employment and further study – the research behind the City & Guilds TechBac® (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 4C
Location: Seminar room A
16:45
Through the observer’s lens: vocational pedagogy in action (abstract)
17:10
Developing Knowledgeable Practice at Work (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 4D
Chair:
Location: Lecture room B
16:45
Skills and Training in an underecognised occupation: the case of the Sales Assistant (abstract)
17:10
The limits of choice in the VET market: cautionary tales from Australia (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 4E
Chair:
Location: Memorial Room
16:45
The theory-practice relationship for acupuncture education in the UK (abstract)
17:15
Mature Students, Resistance and Higher Vocational Education in Further Education Colleges (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 4F
Chair:
Location: Nash West
16:45
Vocational pedagogy: The use of disciplinary knowledge (abstract)
17:15
Using VET principles to drive student engagement in a Higher Education context (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 4G
Location: Nash East
16:45
Team portrait: vital dimensions of teacher team functioning (abstract)
17:10
Working-class university students and experiential learning (abstract)
Saturday, July 4th

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09:15-10:45 Session 7A
Location: Linbury
09:15
Rethinking professional vocational knowledge: How teachers in Further Education in England acquire, mobilise and transport vocational knowledge from occupation to classrooms (abstract)
09:40
Dual or contested professionalism? English FE teachers in the age of 'lean' (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 7B
Location: Morley Fletcher
09:15
A ‘life apprenticeship’? Reclaiming the importance of the social aspect of apprenticeship (abstract)
09:40
Governance of apprenticeships in Europe (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 7C
Location: Seminar room A
09:15
Employers' Experience and Understanding of Higher Apprenticeships (abstract)
09:40
Delivering Skills Transferability in a Market Driven Training System: does it really work? A study of the Australian Vocational Education and Training System (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 7D
Location: Lecture room B
09:15
Vocational education in the post-recession scenario. What is left behind when employability is at the center? (abstract)
09:40
Institutional development of apprenticeship pathways in Lithuania and Estonia: issues for policy learning (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 7E
Location: Memorial Room
09:15
“Same Same But Different”? An International Comparative Case Study of the Prescribed and Enacted Curriculum in Pre-vocational Education in Germany, France and Great Britain (abstract)
09:40
Reform in vocational education and training: Adoption of changes in Post-Soviet Estonia (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 7F
Location: Nash West
09:15
FE colleges and the logic of incorporation 1993-2015. The failure to develop a coherent VET system and strategic purpose for further education in England. (abstract)
09:40
Europeanization and Policy Learning in VET: The Estonian Case (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 7G
Location: Nash East
09:15
Vocational education’s variable links to vocations (abstract)
09:40
Secondary school vocational education in Canada as a solution to job-work mismatch (abstract)
10:45-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Session 8: PLENARY 2
Location: Linbury
11:30
Work-for-welfare: lessons from the work camps of 1930s Britain (abstract)
12:30-13:45Lunch Break
13:45-15:15 Session 9A: Symposium: Gender and VET - Helen Colley
Location: Linbury
13:45
Gender and VET: not just for a special issue! (abstract)
14:15
Increasing female participation in automotive trades in Australia (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 9B
Location: Morley Fletcher
13:45
Modularisation of VET and the dissonance between Rhetoric and Reality: a comparison of Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland (abstract)
14:10
Socio-epistemic analysis of vocational curricula: towards a framework (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 9C
Location: Seminar room A
13:45
Participation in further training: the role of the employment status, qualification level and nationality (abstract)
14:10
Experimenting with Employer Engagement in Education post 2012-what was learnt from an illuminative case study of the Step Up for Success Programme (SU4S) and how this might be used to inform other learning experiences. (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 9D
Location: Lecture room B
13:45
Transition from two-year to three-year training courses in the dual system – a comparison between Switzerland and Germany (abstract)
14:10
An Appraisal of Nigerian Construction Industry Crafts Skills Training Strategies. (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 9E
Location: Memorial Room
13:45
Floristry knowing displayed in funeral design – learning to see with the help of imitation (abstract)
14:10
Vocational Knowledge (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 9F
Chair:
Location: Nash West
13:45
A conceptual framework for rethinking the links between VET and the labour market (abstract)
14:10
THE OVER-TRAINING OF APPRENTICES BY LARGE EMPLOYERS IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IN THE UK: AN ANALYSIS (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 9G
Chair:
Location: Nash East
13:45
Fear and fortitude: Trainee Teachers and the modern moral high ground. (abstract)
14:10
McMindfulness in the Workplace: Vocational Learning and the Commodification of the Present Moment (abstract)
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:15 Session 10A
Location: Linbury
15:45
Title of Abstract: Supporting an Ageing Workforce: is apprenticeship appropriate for older workers? (abstract)
16:10
The development and status of apprenticeship training in Norway (abstract)
15:45-17:15 Session 10B
Location: Morley Fletcher
15:45
European active social policy meets the discipline of the marketplace: the unintended outcomes of ministerial ambition (abstract)
16:10
Restructuring the cooperation of learning venues in the dual VET system: Training companies and vocational schools between regulation and competition. Findings of an empirical research study in North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (abstract)
15:45-17:15 Session 10C
Chair:
Location: Seminar room A
15:45
High-quality engineering apprenticeships- a genuine alternative to higher education? (abstract)
16:10
Revealing the Educated and Experienced 21st Century Apprentice - “A Comparative Analysis of the Distinct Differences in the Quest to Obtain a Bachelor of Applied Sciences Degree from an American and Swiss Federal Institution” (abstract)
15:45-17:15 Session 10D
Location: Lecture room B
15:45
External assessments in VET (abstract)
16:15
Linking instructional verbs from assessment criteria to mode of assessment (abstract)
15:45-17:15 Session 10E
Location: Memorial Room
15:45
The value of early vocational exposure and experience within a traditionally doctrinal discipline (abstract)
16:15
Improving Teaching and Learning Together: Joint Practice Development in Further , Adult and Vocational Education (abstract)
15:45-17:15 Session 10F
Location: Nash West
15:45
School Partnerships with Business in Australia (abstract)
16:10
The experiences of apprentices and employers with fully on-the-job training (abstract)
15:45-17:15 Session 10G
Location: Nash East
15:45
Companies’ Practices in Recruitment and Induction of Job entrants for selected Occupations –Results of an international comparative Establishment Survey (INDUCT). (abstract)
16:10
Explorative comparative analyses from PIAAC about skill formation and education reform (abstract)
Sunday, July 5th

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09:30-11:00 Session 14A
Location: Linbury
09:30
The Earnings of Canadian Higher Education Graduates: A Tax Data Linkage Approach (abstract)
09:55
Examining capital reconversion strategies occurring on the risk management field in the Canadian oil sands mining industry (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 14B
Chair:
Location: Morley Fletcher
09:30
The ‘scope’ as a ‘projective’ object: lessons for Higher Apprenticeships from Consulting Engineering (abstract)
09:55
‘Enterprise training providers’ in Australia and England (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 14C
Chair:
Location: Seminar room A
09:30
How local is VET policy? Global governance and VET policy in South Africa (abstract)
09:55
Higher education in vocational institutions: creating distinctive and valued routes? (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 14D
Location: Lecture room B
09:30
Crossing the knowledge boundary: a study of the academic challenges experienced by the non-graduate trainee teacher in the FE and Skills Sector (abstract)
09:55
What is the value of ‘high’ arts within ‘low level’ education? A study of young people undertaking the Gold level Arts Award within a Further Education College. (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 14E
Location: Nash East
11:00-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 Session 15: PLENARY 3
Location: Linbury
11:15
Challenging race, gender and class stratification through VET in practice. (abstract)