Palgrave Handbook of Policy Transfer in Vocational Education and Beyond

Antje Barabasch is Professor of Vocational Education and Training at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET), Switzerland.Sandra Bohlinger is Full Professor of Adult Education at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.Stefan Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Vocational Education and School Pedagogy at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

• Part I: Framing policy transfer in TVET: governance and political economy issues.- Skills policy transfer in light of political economy; Buchanan, J., Henderson, T. & Occhipinti, J. .- Policy transfer concerning skill formation in Central and Eastern Europe – commonalities and uniqueness; Tūtlys, V., Winterton, J., & Deji, A. .- The EU’s orchestration of employer cooperation: The Pact for Skills and the European Alliance for Apprenticeships; Unterweger, D. F., & Markowitsch, J. .- Framing policy transfer in TVET: governance and political economy issues VET Policy Transfer within the European Union; Rambla X. .- The influence of international organisations on the development of vocational skills: Examining policy transfer in labour-market related adult education in Slovenia; Mikulec, B.- The continuous emergence of the Copenhagen Process – policy transfer in EU VET policy; Cort, P. S. .- Policy learning in the transformation of the Vocational Education and Training system in Estonia; Loogma, K. & Ümarik, M. .- European and American Apprenticeship: A Case of East-West Policy Transfer; Hamilton, S. F. .- Part II: Organizational and contextual issues driving policy transfer in TVET.- ‘Context matters’ revealed: Policy transfer in vocational education to Serbia caught between human capital and human rights perspectives; Langthaler, M. & Pešikan, A. .- Post-secondary policy directions in Alberta, Canada: Skills for Jobs; Watt, B. .- Using design-based research for policy transfer: an example of peer review in vocational schools in China; Li J. .- From export of vocational education and training to policy learning: The case of India; Rajagopalan, A., Regel, J., & Pilz, M. .- Part III: Policy borrowing, lending and learning in TVET.- Cuba's technical and vocational education and training system: Initial observations for a competence-based approach; Carpio C., Adilen, Martínez C. Y., Echevarría G. M., & Romero, R. O. .- Adopting the dual VET model in the U.S. and South Korea: Comparisons and recommendations; Voeller, J., & Ahn, J. .- Policy transfer and reform in vocational education and training in New Zealand; Piercy, G., & Rasmussen, E. .- Laboratories of Democracy? Apprenticeship Policy Transfer Across U.S. States and Programs; Lerman, R., & Kuehn, D. .- Can a VET system evolve without looking abroad? On policy transfer and the extent of Spain-Europe relations; Marhuenda-Fluixá, F. .- Policy transfer in further education and training in Ireland – From colonialism, independence to multilateralism; O’Sullivan, R., & Rami, J. .- Part IV: Macro, Meso and Micro politics in policy transfer.- VET policy transfer in the context of academic drift: The case of North Macedonia; Maurer, M., & Spasovski, O. .- Policy transfer in international development education: fads, verticality, and horizontality; Sack, R. .- Not a simple win-win-win: Localised strategies to overcome the cooperation challenges of dual VET; Wanklin, L. .- Collaborative cross-national performance assessment development and adaptation; Ronderos, N., Flick-Holtsch, D., &  Shavelson, R. J. .- Part V: Policy transfer beyond TVET.- Learning and transfer: Hierarchical and reflexive lessons in higher education policy; Alexiadou, N., & Lange, B. .- Comparative higher education: An overview of internationalisation and ‘policy borrowing’ in the field; Marshall, J. .- Examining the trajectory and outcomes of policy transfer in higher education in the United Arab Emirates; Ashour, S. .- From Denmark to Wisconsin: A historical case study of educational policy transfer ‘from below’; Shackleford, J. .- New perspectives on policy learning in career guidance through collaborative partnerships and networks; Brown, A., Barnes S.-A., Bimrose, J., Kettunen Jaana, & Vuorinen, R..