Gavin Moodie is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He has published over 50 journal articles, encyclopaedia entries and book chapters on post compulsory education, including his first book From vocational to higher education: an international perspective, which was published by Open University Press in 2008.
Written by Gavin Moodie
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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 2019This 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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 July 2019 “Productive capabilities develop TVET’s contribution to social justice”, by Gavin Moodie.
Gavin Moodie
Education International’s new report on "Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a Framework for Social Justice" charts a new way for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to advance social justice.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Case study of further education in England
Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie, Eric Lavigne
5 October 2018This 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 2018TAFE, 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 2018This 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 2016This 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.
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Worlds of Education 14 November 2016 TVET change, challenge and opportunityTVET change, challenge and opportunity
Gavin Moodie