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Vocations and Learning

Studies in Vocational and Professional Education

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Open access

Overview

Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education provides an international forum for papers on the broad field of vocational learning, across a range of settings: vocational colleges, schools, universities, workplaces, domestic environments, voluntary bodies, and more. Coverage includes such topics as curriculum and pedagogy practices for vocational learning; the role and nature of knowledge in vocational learning; the relationship between context and learning in vocational settings; analyses of instructional practice and policy in vocational learning and education; studies of teaching and learning in vocational education; and the relationships between vocational learning and economic imperatives, and the practices and policies of national and trans-national agencies. This peer-reviewed journal aims to enhance the contribution of research and scholarship to vocational education policy and practice, and also to inspire new research in this diverse field.

Editors-in-Chief
  • Stephen Billett,
  • Christian Harteis
Associate Editors
  • Sarojni Choy,
  • Laurent Filliettaz,
  • Andreas Rausch
Impact factor
2.8 (2022)
5 year impact factor
2.5 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
54 days
Downloads
241,293 (2023)

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Journal updates

  • Vocations and Learning is now fully open access!

    We are excited to announce that Vocations and Learning has now become a fully open access (OA) journal as of January 2023. This means that we are no longer accepting non-OA articles for submission. All new content published in the journal will be published under an open access licence, and freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse. 

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1874-7868
Print ISSN
1874-785X
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