Re-conceptualising VET: Responses to covid-19

J Avis, L Atkins, B Esmond… - Journal of Vocational …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The paper addresses the impact of Covid-19 on vocational education and training, seeking
to discern the outline of possible directions for its future development within the debates …

New VET theories for new times: The critical capabilities approach to vocational education and training and its potential for theorising a transformed and …

S McGrath, L Powell, J Alla-Mensah… - Journal of Vocational …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
There is a growing sense that the orthodox set of theories and policies for VET don't work.
This is particularly true in the South where all such Northern theories and policies face the …

[HTML][HTML] Reframing skills ecosystems for sustainable and just futures

P Ramsarup, S McGrath, H Lotz-Sisitka - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current dominant approach to vocational education and training (VET) does not work in
theory, policy or practice in current contexts of unsustainability and global inequality. Nor is it …

What's in a conference theme? Some reflections on critical realist research and its emergence in Africa over a period of 20+ years

H Lotz-Sisitka - Journal of Critical Realism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In keeping with the 2021 IACR Conference theme (Re) Envisaging Emancipatory Research,
Science and Practice, this paper reviews over fifty instances of critical realist research in …

Green Skills for Sustainability Transitions

M Fuchs - Geography Compass, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Green Skills are considered a prerequisite for sustainability transitions. However, existing
literature shows heterogenous meanings of Green Skills, which are based on normative …

Environment and sustainability education research as policy engagement:(Re-) invigorating 'politics as potentia'in South Africa

H Lotz-Sisitka, E Rosenberg… - Navigating the Research …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Using a meta-review approach organized historically in relation to critical policy incidents,
this paper critically reviews the process of developing and (re) invigorating Environment and …

Peluang ekonomi hijau dan ketrampilan hijau menuju netral karbon indonesia tahun 2060

E Erwinsyah - JABE (Journal of Applied Business and …, 2021 - journal.lppmunindra.ac.id
Pertemuan tingkat tinggi mengenai perubahan iklim (COP-26, United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change/UNFCCC), di Glasgow, Inggris baru saja selesai …

A laminated, emergentist view of skills ecosystems

P Ramsarup, H Lotz-Sisitka… - Journal of Critical Realism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we present a model of vocational education and training (VET) that can be
used to guide decisions relating to VET in Africa today. This model takes the critique of the …

A landscape view of emerging sustainability responses within VET

P Ramsarup, S McGrath… - Journal of Vocational …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With evidence of global climate change and ongoing ecological degradation, there is an
urgent need to give more attention to sustainability within VET to ensure that VET does not …

Oil, transport, water and food: a political-economy-ecology lens on VET in a climate changing world

H Lotz-Sisitka, S McGrath… - Journal of Vocational …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, drawing on an extensive research project across three countries (VET Africa
4.0 Collective 2023), we produce an emerging argument that it is necessary to rethink and …