International Transfer of Dual Modes of Vocational Education and Training

National Recontextualization and Local Enactment

Oscar Valiente, Srabani Maitra, Philipp Gonon, Matthias Pilz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040402078
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

This volume looks at the recontextualization that results from the international transfer of dual modes of vocational education and training (VET), typically focused on apprenticeships, in their countries' new nation-specific and local context, highlighting the absorptive capacities and the different modes of duality in VET.

Combining perspectives and data from a truly international set of contributors, the book identifies diverse translations and enactments of dual modes of vocational education and training. Using a case study approach to understand why and how education policies travel across different world regions, and how they mutate in such processes, the book ultimately provides empirical insights into the dynamics involved in the dissemination and recontextualization of global education policies. Chapters discuss local enactments, such as the views of apprentices in two states in Mexico, and an in-depth look at the Industrial Training Institute (based on the Dual System of Training) located in Gujarat, India. Further case studies stretch across the globe from contexts as diverse as China, Spain and Canada, and refer to countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana and Namibia.

This book will be of use to scholars, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of international and comparative education, vocational education and training, and adult education and lifelong learning more broadly. Policy makers working in international policy transfer may also benefit from this volume.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of editors and contributors
• Editor’s introduction: International transfer, national recontextualization and local enactment
• 1 The dual apprenticeship transfer literature: Defining “dual”, understanding transfer, and exploring the role of context
• 2 International policy transfer and absorptive capacities: The transfer of German vocational education and training to Mexico, India and China
• 3 Dual VET the Spanish way: Dual without apprenticeships?
• 4 Can the VET system be a blueprint for “tertiary vocational education”? Motives behind and realisation of “dual universities” in Germany and “cooperative education” in Canada
• 5 Apprenticeships as part of the technical and vocational education and training system: A heuristic for international comparisons and some findings from sub-Saharan Africa
• 6 The role of vocational schools in the transfer and transformation of dual apprenticeship in China: The hidden driving forces
• 7 Reasons to join the dual apprenticeship programme in Mexico: The case of apprentices in Coahuila and the state of Mexico
• 8 The dual system of training and its local enactments: A view from ITIs in India
• Editor’s conclusion: Rethinking the existing transfer of dual training practices critically and with a new future perspective
• Index