East European Vocational Education in Upheaval

Abstract

This article deals with the development of vocational education in East Europe from the mid-eighties. It offers an insight into the problems, the phenomena and similarities of vocational education policy and practice, and brings to light some characteristic features of developments there. Statements are based on the results of long years of comparative studies and analyses. Only selected problems and knowledge can be presented; the specific features of the individual countries must for the most part be omitted owing to our concentration on the essentials of the process and the accompanying events.