Janis Vossiek – författare

The book captures the development and variety of vocational training institutions in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom since World War II from a comparative perspective. While all three countries have undertaken several attempts to reform training from classical craft apprenticeships towards modern dual apprenticeships, their reform processes have yielded divergent results: In the United Kingdom training became largely organized around a publicly financed "training market" with little influence for employers and unions in training politics. Conversely, the social partners were included in reform processes and the provision of training in Ireland and Australia, which enabled the development of dual apprenticeships. These differences, which have been largely neglected in political science and education studies alike, are explained by the interaction between partisan governments and organized interests. Only non-right governments managed to bring together employers and unions in training reforms, which was the main political prerequisite for the development of dual apprenticeships.

Der Sammelband liefert einen Beitrag zum Entwicklungsstand und Perspektiven zur Weiterentwicklung dualer Berufsbildungsansätze in Lateinamerika und Subsahara-Afrika. Die Fallstudien des Bandes zu Brasilien, Costa Rica, Kolumbien, Botswana, Ghana, Kenia, Namibia und Nigeria analysieren jeweils jüngere Entwicklungen des Berufsbildungssystems in den Ländern und diskutieren kritisch, welche Möglichkeiten zur Stärkung dualer Ausbildungsmodelle bestehen. Die acht Fallstudien basieren auf Experteninterviews in den Ländern und bieten exemplarisch einen Einblick in die Funktionsweisen und Wandlungsprozesse beruflicher Bildung in den beiden Regionen.