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Building a learning and training culture: The experience of five OECD countries

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Item:470
Title:Building a learning and training culture: The experience of five OECD countries
Authors:Peter Kearns, George Papadopoulos
Publication date: 11 June 2000
Publication type:Research report
Theme:VET in context > International aspects of VET > International comparisons
ISBN:0 87397 626 6

This study provides an analysis of policies and strategies adopted in five OECD countries to build a learning and training culture. The countries are Britain, United States, Sweden, Netherlands and Germany. The study found that whereas Sweden and the Netherlands have built a learning culture through evolutionary stages embedded in the wider social, economic cultural and political history of the country, Britain shows a revolutionary attempt to change the culture.

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