10.5281/zenodo.4636411
https://zenodo.org/records/4636411
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Billett, Stephen
Stephen
Billett
Griffith University, Australia
Personal Curriculum: Worklife Learning Pathways and VET
European Research Network on Vocational Education and Training, VETNET, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and Bern University of Teacher Education
2021
curriculum
pathways
lifelong learning
lifelong education
VET
Nägele, Christof
Christof
Nägele
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Education
Stalder, Barbara E.
Barbara E.
Stalder
Bern University of Teacher Education, Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation
Weich, Miriam
Miriam
Weich
Bern University of Teacher Education, Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation
2021-03-31
eng
10.5281/zenodo.4636410
https://zenodo.org/communities/vetnet
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International
To understand, evaluate and enhance how vocational education and training (VET) contributes to individuals’ development ultimately requires appraising those contributions across their life courses. How VET assists and supports them through key transitions offers a means to appraise its contributions. Here, the concept of a personal curriculum is introduced and evoked to capture the worklife pathways individuals take and the contributions that VET can and should make. Drawing on a current project elaborating individuals’ worklife history it is found that three interdependent contributions arise: the person, educational provisions (widely defined) and those from ‘community’. The concept of personal curriculum and factors shaping are advanced here.