What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors
Participation in further education is a central success factor for economic growth and societal as well as individual development. This is especially true today because in most industrialized countries, labor markets and work processes are changing rapidly. Data on further education, however, show t...
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| author | Julia Lischewski Susan Seeber Eveline Wuttke Therese Rosemann |
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| description | Participation in further education is a central success factor for economic growth and societal as well as individual development. This is especially true today because in most industrialized countries, labor markets and work processes are changing rapidly. Data on further education, however, show that not everybody participates and that different social groups participate to different degrees. Activities in continuous vocational education and training (CVET) are mainly differentiated as formal, non-formal and informal CVET, whereby further differences between offers of non-formal and informal CVET are seldom elaborated. Furthermore, reasons for participation or non-participation are often neglected. In this study, we therefore analyze and compare predictors for participation in both forms of CVET, namely, non-formal and informal. To learn more about the reasons for participation, we focus on the individual perspective of employees (invidual factors, job-related factors, and learning biography) and additionally integrate institutional characteristics (workplace and company-based characteristics). The results mainly show that non-formal CVET is still strongly influenced by institutional settings. In the case of informal CVET, on the other hand, the learning biography plays a central role. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eed4708f1b3c450fabfc67732525bb1f2022-12-21T23:19:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-12-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.534485534485What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing FactorsJulia Lischewski0Susan Seeber1Eveline Wuttke2Therese Rosemann3Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, GermanyFaculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Business Education and Human Resource Development, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, GermanyFaculty of Economics and Business, Chair of Economics and Business Education, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyFaculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Business Education and Human Resource Development, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, GermanyParticipation in further education is a central success factor for economic growth and societal as well as individual development. This is especially true today because in most industrialized countries, labor markets and work processes are changing rapidly. Data on further education, however, show that not everybody participates and that different social groups participate to different degrees. Activities in continuous vocational education and training (CVET) are mainly differentiated as formal, non-formal and informal CVET, whereby further differences between offers of non-formal and informal CVET are seldom elaborated. Furthermore, reasons for participation or non-participation are often neglected. In this study, we therefore analyze and compare predictors for participation in both forms of CVET, namely, non-formal and informal. To learn more about the reasons for participation, we focus on the individual perspective of employees (invidual factors, job-related factors, and learning biography) and additionally integrate institutional characteristics (workplace and company-based characteristics). The results mainly show that non-formal CVET is still strongly influenced by institutional settings. In the case of informal CVET, on the other hand, the learning biography plays a central role.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.534485/fullcontinuous vocational education and traininginfluences of participation in CVETnon-formal CVETinformal CVETmultivariate analyses |
| spellingShingle | Julia Lischewski Susan Seeber Eveline Wuttke Therese Rosemann What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors Frontiers in Psychology continuous vocational education and training influences of participation in CVET non-formal CVET informal CVET multivariate analyses |
| title | What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors |
| title_full | What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors |
| title_fullStr | What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors |
| title_full_unstemmed | What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors |
| title_short | What Influences Participation in Non-formal and Informal Modes of Continuous Vocational Education and Training? An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Influencing Factors |
| title_sort | what influences participation in non formal and informal modes of continuous vocational education and training an analysis of individual and institutional influencing factors |
| topic | continuous vocational education and training influences of participation in CVET non-formal CVET informal CVET multivariate analyses |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.534485/full |
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