Frankreichs Berufsbildung im Spiegel der europäischen Berufsbildungspolitik: Eine komparative Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Anpassungsproblemen und Anpassungsnotwendigkeiten
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The French VET system is commonly described as „school-based“ and „state-controlled“. However, since the 1990s, the country has increasingly questioned its institutional and organisational parameters as well as the specific shaping of educational and vocational courses within its centrally steered VET system. The new orientations deriving from this have been directed towards strengthening the various forms of company-based training. Yet, it was especially the introduction of a system called validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) - dealing with non-formal and informal learning - which rendered this reform process a specific quality. This step appears to be much more “European” than what can be observed in Germany, which has also undertaken work on a National Qualifications Framework (DQR), although the country finds it difficult to cope with the paradigm of “competence orientation” underlying the European Qualifications Framework (EQR or EQF), characterised by the notion of open learning pathways, institutional variability and the opening of “subsystem borders” within the education system. This article picks up these developments in France, by looking at the specific educational and VET traditions of the country, and then widens its perspective towards a comparative view, focussing education policy, which encompasses Germany.
Authors: Thomas Deissinger, Mariska Ott
Institution: University of Konstanz
Language: German
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W179266759