AVETRA 13th Annual Conference

Résumé du livre

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA), held in 2010 in Gold Coast, Queensland. The conference theme is VET research, leading and responding in turbulent times. It reflects the volatile world economic situation over the past two years, and the effects that this has had on communities and people. VET is intimately connected both with the economy and with individuals who need high quality education and training to negotiate their relationships with the labour market and with society more generally. As the conference theme implies, VET needs to be proactive in turbulent times rather than merely responding to circumstances or to agendas set by other sectors. AVETRA aims to draw together researchers, policy makers and practitioners so that information can be shared and conflicting positions productively and amicably confronted. [President's welcome, ed].