Didactics in vocational education and training – Diversity and intercepts in the Nordic educational landscape
Abstract
This article pictures complexity of didactical research in vocational education and training (VET) and how international comparative research can contribute to development of VET’s didactics. We have argued earlier that depending on differences in perspectives and even on language differences, we are facing a remarkable conceptual diversity of what didactics is about. We claim that there is a need to transcend the language discussion and to focus on content related aspects to advance knowledge and research in this area within the field of VET. We start by shortly presenting research on didactics aiming at highlighting transitions and diversity in various approaches. Particular emphasis is on the challenges in designing vocational didactics. We then present selected contributions from scholars in the VET field with the intention to illustrate and propose discussion about the diversity and intercepts that are visible today. A thorough comparative study of didactics in VET in the Nordic countries remains as a necessary project ahead.
