Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review

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dc.contributor.authorMcGrath, Simon
dc.contributor.authorRamsarup, Presha
dc.contributor.authorZeelen, Jacques
dc.contributor.authorWedekind, Volker
dc.contributor.authorAllais, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorLotz-Sisitka, Heila
dc.contributor.authorMonk, David
dc.contributor.authorOpenjuru, George
dc.contributor.authorRusson, Jo-Anna
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-09T08:56:57Z
dc.date.available2022-03-09T08:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-05
dc.description.abstractThe SDGs mark the clearest global acceptance yet that the previous approach to development was unsustainable. In VET, UNESCO has responded by developing a clear account of how a transformed VET must be part of a transformative approach to development. It argues that credible, comprehensive skills systems can be built that can support individuals, commu nities, and organisations to generate and maintain enhanced and just livelihood opportunities. However, the major current theoretical approaches to VET are not up to this challenge. In the context of Africa, we seek to address this problem through a presentation of literatures that contribute to the theorization of this new vision. They agree that the world is not made up of atomized individuals guided by a “hidden hand”. Rather, reality is heavily structured within political economies that have emerged out of contestations and compromises in specific historical and geographical spaces. Thus, labor markets and education and training systems have arisen, characterized by inequalities and exclusions. These specific forms profoundly influence individuals’ and communities’ views about the value of different forms of learning and working. However, they do not fully define what individuals dream, think and do. Rather, a transformed and transformative VET for Africa is possible.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1080/13636820.2019.1679969
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.gu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/20.500.14270/115
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInforma-Taylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectVETen_US
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleVocational education and training for African development: a literature reviewen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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