Vocational Education and Training Institutions' Collaboration with the World of Work from the Perspective of Actor Networks and Ecosystems of Learning
Virolainen, M., & Heikkinen, H. L. T. (2018). Vocational Education and Training Institutions' Collaboration with the World of Work from the Perspective of Actor Networks and Ecosystems of Learning. In L. M. Herrera, M. Teräs, & P. Gougoulakis (Eds.), Vocational Education and Training : The World of Work and Teacher Education (pp. 67-97). Stockholm: Premiss.
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Vocational and professional education institutions, as well as higher education
institutions, are more and more expected to collaborate with the world of work and each
other. At the same time, the boundaries of organisations have become somewhat blurred.
Employers may be subcontractors for a larger firm or subdivisions of an enterprise
(organisation) may serve their headquarters through digital connections on the other side
of the globe. As a result, the forms and cultures of organisations that educational
institutions are expected to collaborate with have become rather complex and difficult to
figure out. In order to better understand the complexities of the collaborative practices that
educational institutions are dealing with, this study explores, in particular, two approaches
that theorise transformed organisations: actor–network theory (ANT) and discussions on
ecosystems of learning (EL). The authors investigated what characteristics of the
‘collaborative contract’ in educational institutions’ collaborations with the world of work
these two approaches are able to address. The analysis is based on a selected literature
overview of research incorporating the ANT or EL concepts. Empiric examples are drawn
from a study on two developmental collaborative networks of Finnish universities of
applied sciences, eAMK and Toteemi.
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