Education, Skills and Educational Transitions

  • The Education, Skills and Educational Transitions programme of ROA aims to use a multidisciplinary lens to study how education can effectively contribute to the development of skills in education, and to the transitions within education and from education to the labour market.

    Within this research theme, three main topics can be identified:1) School careers, 2) Educational innovation and development, and 3) Transitions within education and towards the labour market. Each research project belonging to the Education, Skills and Educational Transitions programme of ROA is part of one (and sometimes more) of these topics. Furthermore, there are two overarching themes that are interacting with these topics and with each other, meaning that one or both of these overarching themes is represented in almost all projects that belong to this research programme. The first overarching theme is (in)equality in education and the second is the development of skills. There is a broad range of skills that belong to the development of skills. Think for example of (but not limited to) cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills (such as well-being and motivation), digital/AI skills, citizenship skills and life skills (‘bildung’).

     

    Important questions are:
    • How should we organise education to effectively contribute to the development of a broad range of skills?
      What are effective ways to develop a broad range of skills in education?
    • How can education effectively contribute to qualification acquisition (to participate in society as well as be prepared for the labour market)?
    • How can transitions in education and from education to the labour market be organised in an effective way?
    • What is the relation between the development of skills in education, transitions within education and to post-secondary education and the labour market, and (in)equality in education

    We look at the transitions and skill development of (individuals in) education at different levels: the macro level (national education systems), the meso level (schools / classes), and the micro level (students), as well as the relationships between these levels. In doing so, we consider the complete educational chain as well as all levels separately, from primary education to (higher) vocational and university education.  Given the broader social context in which education is rooted, studying education, at any of these levels, in relation to themes as social (in)equality, globalisation, climate change and AI also becomes increasingly important.

     

    Research themes belonging to the Education, Skills and Educational Transitions Programme:
    • Educational performance and school careers
    • Development of skills in education
    • School performance and school quality
    • Transitions in education
    • Transition from education to the labour market
    • Educational innovations and development
    • Educational technology/AI
    • (In)equality of education