While after II. World War paid care work in private households has almost disappeared because of the rising welfare systems, in last decades it is again in steep increase all over the Europe given the restructuring of the role of state in social reproduction which leads into individualization and reprivatisation of care work. In lecture the author analyzes multiple peculiarities of this work which is marked by: location in private sphere of households; fragmentation, flexibilisation and informalization; feminization and etnicization; social devaluation, and the absence of clear status in modern labour legislation.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1048429The paper explores the learning and working activities of vocational education and training (VET) students in seven European countries. The paper finds that i) there are large differences among the countries in the time spent in school, ii) that learners spend very little time studying for school at home, iii) interest in 'academic' school subjects is very low, iv) much time is spent on socialisation and passive forms of learning and v) a large number of VET students are engaged in paid work. Drawing on both information process and social learning approaches the paper recommends that strategies for VET development - curriculum, pedagogy, institutional organisation and pathways - should be informed by a better understand of the perspective of the VET learner as an individual with a range of activities, interests and attachments rather than simply viewing learners as customers or clients for VET provision.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 33121629