Uschi Backes-Gellner - Economics and Governance of Vocational and Professional Education and Training (including Apprenticeship) (E-Book)

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Ursula Renold

Socially constructed concepts are part of social systems. Identifying and understanding such concepts is a necessary prerequisite to internationally comparing education and training systems. By highlighting where socioeconomic and sociocultural differences may be rooted and shedding light on aspects of political economy theory, this chapter describes methodological problems in comparing VET programs. Starting with issues related to the definitions of such programs and continuing with a simple classification scheme to overcome problems of definitions, I summarize relevant forms of construction metaphors to understand different types of social constructs in the literature.