Governing the educational and labour market trajectories of secondary TVET graduates in Chile

管理智利中等职业技术教育培训毕业生的教育和劳动力市场轨迹

• 批准号: MR/N026705/1
• 负责人: Oscar Valiente
• 金额: $ 23.82万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FN026705%2F1
• 关键词: Governing; educational; labour; market; trajectories

Chile has experienced considerable educational expansion over the past few decades as a result of the growing demand for education from individuals and families and the positional competition for qualified jobs in the formal sector of the economy. While in the past TVET policies were designed to offer educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth seeking a quick insertion in the labour market, today the orientations and the objectives of these policies are less clear given the larger number of secondary TVET graduates that pursue tertiary education and combine education and work in their trajectories after schooling. In this context, TVET continues to be a strategic sector for improving the skills of most disadvantaged youth over their life course but the transitions of these young adults from secondary to tertiary education and from education to work are becoming more problematic due to the high stratification of tertiary education supply, the scarcity of qualified jobs in the economy and the poor coordination of public policies targeting young adults. The project aims to understand the potentially competing, and possibly ambivalent, orientations and objectives of TVET policies in Chile, their compatibility and contradictions with the aspirations of secondary TVET graduates, and their intended and unintended effects on the educational and labour market trajectories of these young adults. An important contribution of the project is the incorporation of the perspective of young adults (their expectations, aspirations and strategies) into the debate on how TVET policies can better support disadvantaged youth in their transition to work. By doing this, the project aims to contribute to the design of TVET policies that better accommodate the demands and needs of vulnerable young populations in changing labour markets and societies, which emphasize the relevance of this kind of research in this particular moment in transitional economies like Chile. Conceptually, the project is based on three major theoretical perspectives - Cultural Political Economy, Life Course Research and Governance Perspective. The combination of these different systems of thought matches the topic's broad variety of dimensions. The proposed project brings together different disciplinary social scientific approaches, which aim at conceptualising the research questions in adequate ways due to its complexity; further, its drawing from theories and methods from Education Science, Sociology and Political Science purports addressing methodological issues related to the complex dynamics of policy-making by means of an interdisciplinary perspective. In order to achieve its aims, the study is designed as a multilevel qualitative research at national, local and individual level. At the national level, we will map TVET policies and programs, will review policy regulations, and will interview national policy makers and stakeholders. At the local level, we will conduct case studies that will involve interviews with local authorities, TVET schools, and others. Finally, at the individual level, we will carry out interviews with a typological sample of secondary TVET graduates with different educational and labour market trajectories.This project expects to expand the research evidence on TVET policies in Chile and their implications for the trajectories of TVET graduates after school. We expect that the evidence produced for the case of Chile will contribute to the debates on how TVET can improve the living conditions and labour market opportunities of disadvantaged youth in middle-income and low-income countries, what is a priority for many development agencies today.

由于个人和家庭对教育的需求不断增长，以及正规经济部门对合格工作的职位竞争，智利在过去几十年中经历了相当大的教育扩展。过去，技术和职业教育与培训政策的目的是为寻求快速进入劳动力市场的弱势青年提供教育机会，而今天，这些政策的方向和目标不那么明确，因为有更多的中等技术和职业教育与培训毕业生追求高等教育，并将联合收割机教育与毕业后的工作结合起来。在这种情况下，技术和职业教育与培训仍然是提高处境最不利的青年在其一生中的技能的一个战略部门，但由于高等教育供应的高度分层、经济中合格工作的稀缺以及针对年轻人的公共政策协调不力，这些年轻人从中等教育过渡到高等教育以及从教育过渡到工作正变得越来越成问题。该项目旨在了解智利技术和职业教育与培训政策的潜在竞争性和可能矛盾的方向和目标，它们与中等技术和职业教育与培训毕业生的愿望的兼容性和矛盾性，以及它们对这些年轻人的教育和劳动力市场轨迹的预期和非预期影响。该项目的一个重要贡献是将青年人的观点（他们的期望、愿望和战略）纳入关于技术和职业教育与培训政策如何更好地支持处境不利青年向工作过渡的辩论。通过这样做，该项目旨在促进技术和职业教育与培训政策的设计，更好地适应不断变化的劳动力市场和社会中弱势年轻人口的需求和需要，强调这类研究在智利等转型经济体的这一特殊时刻的相关性。在概念上，该项目基于三个主要的理论视角-文化政治经济学，生命历程研究和治理视角。这些不同的思想体系的结合与该主题的各种维度相匹配。拟议的项目汇集了不同学科的社会科学方法，其目的是以适当的方式概念化的研究问题，由于其复杂性;此外，它从教育科学，社会学和政治学的理论和方法的绘图旨在解决方法问题相关的复杂动态决策通过跨学科的角度。为了达到研究目的，本研究设计为国家、地方和个人层面的多层次定性研究。在国家一级，我们将制定技术和职业教育与培训政策和计划，审查政策法规，并采访国家决策者和利益相关者。在地方一级，我们将进行个案研究，包括与地方当局、职业技术教育与培训学校和其他机构进行访谈。最后，在个人层面，我们将对具有不同教育和劳动力市场轨迹的中等职业技术教育与培训毕业生进行类型学抽样访谈，该项目预计将扩大智利职业技术教育与培训政策及其对职业技术教育与培训毕业生放学后轨迹的影响的研究证据。我们期望，为智利案例提供的证据将有助于就技术和职业教育与培训如何改善中等收入和低收入国家弱势青年的生活条件和劳动力市场机会展开辩论，这是当今许多发展机构的优先事项。