Purpose The alignment between the labour market and initial vocational education and
training (IVET) is placing always more importance on technical knowledge and skills, whilst …

Knowledge in VET curricula and power in society and labour market : Policy and practice:
demands-based and employer-driven Swedish higher vocational education diva-portal.org …

Critical thinking is understanding, analyzing, evaluating information, and making reasoned
and rational decisions. This ability is one of the essential skills for students in solving …

The present study proposed to establish an explanatory theoretical model and sought to
compare a serial mediation model in order to associate the influence of teamwork, trough …

Critical thinking has been difficult to develop in technical and vocational education and
training, where acquiring practical skills is often the priority. This study looks at whether tried …

Background: Undergraduate research is evident in many forms across higher education: in
journals, at conferences and on research placements. It is widely reported that …

The dual system of vocational education and training (VET) and its quality have recently
been receiving scientific attention, partly due to high drop-out rates and to politically …

The aim of this article is to increase our understanding of how history and social studies
teachers in vocational preparation programmes (VET) in Sweden relate to the obligation of …

In this article, we ask how students with a range of social class and ethnic backgrounds
perceive their opportunities to participate in the classroom and influence their learning, and …

This paper discusses how Bernsteinian concepts ('pedagogic rights','discursive gaps' and
'pedagogic code') from the field of sociology of education can be used as didactic tools to …