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Avis, J., Orr, K. and Warmington, Paul (2017) Race and vocational education and training in England. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 69 (3). pp. 292-310. doi:10.1080/13636820.2017.1289551 ISSN 1363-6820 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2017.1289551
Abstract
Black and minority ethnic students (BME) are a significant constituency in VET and FE in England. Despite this recent research on race and VET has become a marginal concern. Insofar as current VET research addresses social justice, race appears to be a supplementary concern. Although there is a substantial literature addressing race and education, this focuses primarily on schools and higher education. This paper examines why there is a need to develop a research agenda that analyses participation, outcomes and experiences of BME VET students, particularly those on ‘non-advanced’ programmes (equivalent to European Qualification Framework Level 1-3) with uncertain labour market outcomes and who are arguably being ‘warehoused’ in low status courses. The paper reflects on the historically specific reasons for the dearth of research on race and VET, drawing on a scoping exercise of the literature to evidence this. We conclude by offering a provisional analysis that identifies recent shifts in participation among BME groups, locating this in its socio-economic and historical context. Our analysis reaffirms that VET remains a significant educational site for BME groups, but it is a complex racialised site which makes the current neglect of race and VET in academic research deeply problematic.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Vocational Education and Training | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1363-6820 | ||||||
Official Date: | 5 June 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 69 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 292-310 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13636820.2017.1289551 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 February 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 December 2018 |
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