Development of pedagogical competencies of the vocational teachers in Italy and Lithuania: implications of competence-based VET curriculum reforms

What is it about?

The present study aims to reveal common and diverging trends in the development of pedagogical competences of VET teachers and trainers in Italy and Lithuania. A structured survey was administered to Italian and Lithuanian teachers. The collected data were analyzed and compared. Results show that there are many common challenges and problems of development of pedagogical competencies of the VET teachers in both countries; e.g.: the marginalization of the VET teacher’s work and working conditions, especially the dissatisfying wages and poor career opportunities and the absent or weak institutionalization of VET teacher’s qualifications and training. The emerged results can be useful for directors of VET-centres and VET-schools to manage training and pedagogical growth of teachers both in Italy and in Lithuania. Moreover, the outputs can be considered as a set of suggestions also by the policymakers both at national and European level.

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