The School-Based Vocational Education and Training System in Spain: Achievements and Controversies

ISBN-13: 9789811384745 Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore Publication date: 10/12/2019 Series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects , #32 Edition description: 1st ed. 2019 Pages: 229 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) This book discusses the developments in policy and practice in the field of formal, non-formal and continuing vocational education and training in Spain since 1970. It describes how VET has been transformed and become one of the country’s main areas of pedagogical innovation, and also examines current developments, such as the role of non-formal vocational education and training, the accreditation of vocational qualifications acquired in the non-formal system, and the adoption of dual apprenticeships that bear little resemblance to central European dual systems. Written by respected researchers in these fields, the first section is informative and analytical, offering a description of the system and comments based o