Empowering At-Risk Youth in and Through Vocational Education: A Comparative View of the Baltic Countries and Norway - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 9819606128 ISBN 13 : 9789819606122

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025

Synopsis

This open access book presents insights on the resiliency strategies of at-risk vocational education and training (VET) students in the field of learning, employment and social integration, in the Baltic countries and Norway. It investigates the ways in which vocational education and training (VET) can enhance the social inclusion of young people at-risk, both in terms of combating school dropout rates, and promoting transitions between various (social) learning contexts, such as school-work transition. Book presents the findings of the analysis of available statistical data disclosing the capacities and potential of the VET systems and providers to empower vulnerable learners in the project partner countries. In the context of VET, this book examines the situations of at-risk young people as they experience, and understand themselves, in it, and explores innovative solutions to address their challenges in collaboration between themselves, their teachers, and other community actors and stakeholders. Finally, it analyses and discusses the innovative pedagogical interventions used in empowering at-risk VET students as implemented in the research project 'EmpowerVET', on the basis of the Educational Learning Lab model developed by researchers from the University of Tallinn School of Educational Sciences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Vidmantas Tūtlys is Professor of Education Science and Researcher at Vytautas Magnus University Institute of Educational Research in Kaunas, Lithuania. His research areas include development of vocational education and training policies, vocational education and training (VET) curriculum design, skill formation and qualification systems.

Dr Tarja Tikkanen is Professor in Education at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and a Professor II at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). She has extensive experience in research and development in lifelong learning in the context of work and job-competence. In more recent work, she has concentrated on teacher educators' and teachers' professional digital competence and its development in the context of digital transformation in education and in society. Most of her research has been international - mainly Nordic and European - but also regional amd national, in Finland and Norway. She leads the Erasmus+project on 'Strategic Partnerships for higher education, No teacher educator left behind' (NOTELEB, 2020-2023), with five partners from four countries, as well as the the Nordic/Nordplus network 'Digital Competence in Teacher Education in the Nordic Countries' (DICOMTEN, 2020-2022), with eight partners from six countries. She is also currently leading the Norwegian research team in the international EEA project 'Vocational education and workplace training enhancing social inclusion of at-risk young people' (EmpowerVET, 2021-2023), built in collaboration between Norway and the Baltic Countries, with Lithuania in lead. She has published widely on lifelong learning and job competence, including comparative studies based on the OECD's PIAAC data.

Dr Meril Ümarik, (Ph.D. in Sociology) is working as an Associate Professor of educational research at the School of Educational Sciences at Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research interests involve educational reforms and adoption of reform policies in vocational education and training (VET), vocational teachers' professionalism, and gender segregation in VET. Her methodological expertise lies in qualitative research methods.

Dr Biruta Sloka is a Professor at the University of Latvia. She is also President of the Association of Latvia's Statisticians, a Member of Statistics Council of Republic of Latvia, as well as a member of scientific committees of international conferences, and editorial boards of several scientific journals. She led the EuroFaculty Riga centre (an international project of Council of Baltic Sea States - CBSS) and was advisor to six ministers of economy and two ministers of education and science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9819606128
• ISBN 13: 9789819606122
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 239
• Éditeur: Tūtlys Vidmantas, Tikkanen Tarja Irene, Ümarik Meril, Sloka Biruta
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