Vocational orientation: inconsistencies and open questions

Coverbild: BWP 1/2014
Author
Issue/Year (Volume) 1/2014 (43)
Page(s) 12-15
Language(s)
    englisch

Concepts and instruments for school-based and non-school-based vocational orientation have been developed and evaluated in the course of numerous support programmes and projects. Despite the diversity of different first-hand reports, organisational proposals and declarations of intent, a widespread policy consensus seems to prevail in Germany as regards the understanding of vocational orientation and the underlying educational models. Yet this consensus is not free from inconsistencies, and throws up a number of questions that are reflected upon in the article.