Towards Entrepreneurship in Vocational Education and Training
Towards Entrepreneurship in Vocational Education and Training

Summary/Abstract: The integration of entrepreneurship into vocational education and training is not merely a trendy idea, or just one more idea among many. At its core is the need for it to be incorporated “into the context of a fundamental quest to reorientate ... vocational education and training policy” ( C. Diensberg, 1999). The debate on this subject is only superficially a debate on means; its core is a debate on values, the quest for educational aims and their justifications. This was no doubt what Roman Herzog, the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, had in mind when he intervened in the education and training debate and announced: “We need a new culture of independence and responsibility!” (R. Herzog, 1997). Using the entrepreneurship approach it will be possible to make vocational education and training viable for globalization and market orientation in the age of information technology. In addition, this kind of reorientation can integrate vocational education and training into the general process of social change represented by individualization, which goes hand in hand in the employment market with a wide spectrum of new forms of work between employment and self-employment. To incorporate these into vocational education and training is a rewarding task for the employment market and an extremely important one for the vocational education and training system.

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