ABSTRACT

The paper addresses the impact of Covid-19 on vocational education and training, seeking to discern the outline of possible directions for its future development within the debates about VET responses to the pandemic. The discussion is set in its socio-economic context, considering debates that engage with the social relations of care and neo-liberalism. The paper analyses discourses that have developed around VET across the world during the pandemic, illustrating both possible continuities and ruptures that may emerge in this field, as the health crisis becomes overshadowed in public policy by the prioritisation of economic recovery and social restoration. The paper concludes that, alongside the possibility of a narrowing of VET to its most prosaic aims and practices, the health crisis could also lead to a re-conceptualisation that develops its radical and emancipatory possibilities in both the global south and north.

摘要

本文探讨了Covid-19对职业教育和培训的影响，力求在有关职业教育与培训对大流行病应对的辩论中辨别其未来发展的可能方向。讨论是在其社会经济背景下进行的，考虑了涉及护理和新自由主义的社会关系的辩论。本文分析了在大流行期间围绕VET发展的各种话语，阐明了随着经济危机和社会恢复的优先考虑，健康危机在公共政策中被掩盖了，这一领域可能出现的连续性和破裂。本文的结论是，除了将VET缩小到最平淡的目标和做法之外，