Vocational Education and Training in the European Union. New keys to its interpretation

Abstract

This article analyzes the Vocational Training (VT) system of three specific countries, representing each of the so - called classic models, as well as a brief foray into the Spanish model. It also assesses the current momentum of the convergence process. In order to do so, it relies on a different approach to those used today, through the incorporation of different elements that normally are not usually considered in the face of this type of descriptive approach. That is why, along with the instruction, we introduce your historical journey, along with aspects related to the labor market and the national administrative structure. The beginnings of this transfer of knowledge have been placed in the Late Middle Ages, along with professional corporations. In the Modern Age originated the first primary school that adopted a more generic, if exclusive formation. From the II Industrial Revolution a new system of professional education made the labor force more efficient, creating the «classic» systems of FP (liberal, bureaucratic and dual). Finally, between the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of the xxi, there has emerged a movement of unification in the field of vocational training within the European Union. Other aspects necessary for our approach to elements that are considered alien, such as the labor relations of the respective labor markets, as well as ways of exercising political administration.