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Wrapping up the ECER 2019 experience - Part Five: Debates on VET research (past, present, ...
With this blog post I conclude a series of posts on the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2019) that took place earlier last week in Hamburg, Germany. The first ... -
Wrapping up the ECER 2019 experience - Part Four: Developments in the VETNET network
With my recent blogs I have been wrapping up my experiences on the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2019) that took place earlier this week in Hamburg, Germany. The ... -
Wrapping up the ECER 2019 experience - Part One: The opening session of the VETNET ...
Once again, the annual European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) - organised by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) - has taken place. This time the venue was the University ... -
Learning, education outcomes and socioeconomic class
We have long known that educational outcomes are heavily influenced by social class. But little has been done to try to understand how social class affects learning. In that respect ... -
And the Award goes to ... Learning Layers!
The third European Vocational Skills Week (EVSW) took place this week in Vienna (Wien). The event has been launched by the European Commission to draw attention to the importance of ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 – Part Five: Developments in the VETNET network
With my four previous posts I have shaped a series of blogs on the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018) that took place last week in Bolzano/Bozen. In the ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 – Part Four: Insights into different VETNET sessions
With my previous posts I have shaped a series of blogs on the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018) that took place last week in Bolzano/Bozen. In the first ... -
Vocational Education and Training Research in the UK
Next week I am going to the European Conference on Education Research (ECER) taking place in Bolzano in Italy. I am talking in three sessions, one about changing identities in ... -
Remembering David Raffe and his life-work - a special issue of Journal of Education and ...
In February 2015 we received the sad news that professor David Raffe, a prominent educational sociologist and key actor in European vocational education and training (VET) research had passed away. ... -
Revisiting the Learning Layers experience – “ToDo List” for conferences finally completed
At the end of April this year I had left behind all the work after the final review of our EU-funded Learning Layers (LL) project. We had completed the work ...