Leesa Wheelahan
Professor Leesa Wheelahan leads the Pathways to Education and Work research group within the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her co-researchers are Professor Gavin Moodie, Professor Ruth Childs, Dr Eric Lavigne, and PhD students Leping Mou, Fatima Samji, Lindsay Coppens, Ashley Rostamian.
Written by Leesa Wheelahan
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Technical and vocational education and training as a framework for social justice: Analysis and evidence from world case studies
Gavin Moodie, Leesa Wheelahan, Eric Lavigne
31 July 2019Technical and vocational education and training as a framework for social justice: Analysis and evidence from world case studiesThis report observes several limitations of human capital theory, both as a description of the way qualifications are used in the labour market, and in severely limiting the potential roles of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It proposes as an alternative the human capabilities approach which posits that...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 11 November 2018 TVET, capabilities and social justice, by Leesa Wheelahan
Leesa Wheelahan
What is technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and what does it do? This can be a hard question to answer because there isn’t a lot of agreement about what it does, what it should do, who should pay for it, how it should be offered, and whether it...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Case study of further education in England
Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie, Eric Lavigne
5 October 2018Case study of further education in EnglandThis report on further education in England was undertaken as part of a project funded by Education International to examine national case studies of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a framework for social justice.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Case Study of TAFE and public vocational education in Australia
Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie, Eric Lavigne
5 October 2018Case Study of TAFE and public vocational education in AustraliaTAFE, or technical and further education institutes, are the public vocational education and training institutions in Australia. Since the 1980s, TAFE has been subjected to policies that sought to position it as one ‘provider’ in a market populated by public and private providers. TAFE’s role has been narrowed from providing...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 TVET in Taiwan
Eric Lavigne, Gavin Moodie, Leesa Wheelahan
5 October 2018TVET in TaiwanThis case study of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Taiwan is part of a project initiated and supported by Education International to research how TVET can contribute to social justice, social inclusion, and sustainable development in different countries.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Global trends in TVET: a framework for social justice
Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie
16 November 2016Global trends in TVET: a framework for social justiceThis report commissioned by Education International provides a conceptual framework to understand how vocational education is positioned in many countries, and the different ways in which the relationship between vocational education and the structures of the labour market mediate the variable outcomes that vocational education graduates achieve.