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Strategies and Perspectives of School Actors During a Reform of Vocational Training in Luxembourg

Author(s)

Claude Houssemand, Anne Pignault, Raymond Meyers

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2016.08.001

Affiliation(s)

Institute of Lifelong Learning and Guidance (LLLG), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

ABSTRACT

Since 2008, a reform of vocational training is being implemented in the upper level of secondary education in Luxembourg. The new method consists of: (1) teaching through competencies; (2) modular training where modules can be repeated until they are achieved; and (3) evaluation which has been changed from quantitative to qualitative. The reform continues to face ongoing challenges and resistance from the different actors involved in vocational training. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the relevant actors in order to analyse their strategies and perspectives during and after the reform: representatives of the Ministry of Education, teaching staff, school administrations, enterprises, parents, and pupils. A heuristic model of resistance to change in education was constructed, based on these interviews. A general fatigue with the reform has spread; and this is at a moment when the Ministry wants to implement new changes to the aforementioned law. In order to make the reform viable, a new negotiated agreement based on the interests of the different players should be achieved.

KEYWORDS

Vocational training, secondary education, competencies, interviews

Cite this paper

Sociology Study, August 2016, Vol. 6, No. 8, 485-489

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