The AVETRA Conference Committee has released the full program for the AVETRA 2023 Conference organised around the themes below.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING
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CHALLENGING TIMES
The Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have each in their own way impacted the policies and practices of vocational education and training.
In this theme, we explore the impact of the recent and not so recent global economic and social disruptions on the VET and adult education systems.
This may include perspectives on the transformation of teaching and learning practices during times of lockdown, the role of VET in enabling labour market recovery, and the adaptability of VET in response to workforce development crises enhanced by economic disruption.
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CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
Inclusive education policy and practices, reconciliation with First Nations and economic wellbeing are cross cutting challenges facing all education and training systems from early childhood education, through schools and into tertiary and higher education.
In this theme, we explore that social inclusion and identity challenges facing VET right now.
This may include contributions that apply a diverse breadth of methodological approaches and intersectional theories to researching VET and adult education policy, practice and learner & teacher identities, including feminist, queer, decolonising and class-based lenses.
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CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD
Global transformations in the nature of work require skills and training systems that can keep pace with the needs of learners, employers and labour markets. With the Fourth Industrial Revolution underway and the Fifth Industrial Revolution around the corner, vocational education has a central role to play in building individual and collective capability for climate mitigation and adaptation, advances in digitalization and personalization of service design and delivery and transforming credentialling approaches and systems.
In this theme, we explore the challenges facing VET over the next decade.
This may include the role
of VET in building capability for enabling the transition to a carbon neutral
economy, VET’s role in enabling the growth of circular economy practices, where
VET will contribute to expansion of digitalization of service design and
delivery, and how national, regional and global shifts in credentialling
systems will impact VET certification policies and practices.
AVETRA
23 is organised by the Australasian Vocational Education and Training Research
Association (AVETRA), with the support of FineHaus
AVETRA Secretariat
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