Overview

Guest Editor: Rupert Maclean
Chair Professor of International Education and Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Hong Kong Institute of Education Foundation Director, UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Bonn, Germany

A special issue of International Journal of Training Research
volume 9/1 ~ April 2011 ~ ii + 126 pages ~ ISBN 978-1-921729-10-2

This special edition is in response to the resolutions arising out the 2009 UNESCO General Conference of UNESCO's 193 Member States where a major resolution was passed to promote the reform and strengthening of TVET systems and the capacity of Member States so developed to equip youth and adults with knowledge, competences and skills for the world of work.

The 2009 UNESCO General Conference identified TVET as one of three priority areas to be focused on by UNESCO in its various programme activities. This includes: teacher education; development of adult literacy; and linkages with lifelong learning.

In addition, the commitment to build TVET is extended in areas such as developing nations as well as those nations in post conflict and post natural disaster situations.

The papers may also wish to consider issues relating to TVET and the relationship with education for sustainability, education for all, elder education and capacity building for older workers as well as TVET and worker mobility.

This issue is guest edited by Prof Rupert Maclean, Chair in International Education and Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

All submissions will be subject to double blind refereeing and submission should be lodged through the web-based peer review processes at:

http://ojs.e-contentmanagement.com/index.php/jtr

Papers should be marked as being submitted for IJTR Special edition 2011.

To be considered for this edition all manuscript submissions should be lodged for review by 1 November 2010.

Abstracts may be submitted in advance - by 1 August 2010 - to Dr Peter Kell, editor of International Journal of Training Research at: pmkell@ied.edu.hk or to the Guest Editor, Prof Rupert Maclean at: maclean@ied.edu.hk

Table of Contents

Browse Abstracts of articles here

2 - 15 Editorial The future of technical and vocational education and training
16 - 34 Skills and education for all from Jomtien (1990) to the GMR of 2012
35 - 48 Where to now for vocational education and training in Africa?
49 - 59 Teacher education in TVET
60 - 71 TVET and the poor
72 - 94 The implications of skills deepening for vocational education and training in Australia
95 - 109 Is skill training a good investment for the poor?
110 - 122 Informal training for skilled workers
123 - 133 TVET Initiatives in Southeast Asian countries in response to increasing labour mobility within the region and beyond
134 - 151 Global skills and mobility challenges and possibilities for VET
152 - 163 Building future sustainability and democratic practices
164 - 178 Offshore teaching practice in the Australia-Pacific technical college