Social Investment or Social Discipline?: Reinforcement of Vocational Education and Training in the Danish Welfare State since the 1990s

This presentation is going to describe about vocational education and training in Denmark from perspective social policy and welfare state studies. The presentation is in four parts. Firstly, I’m going to discuss historical background of reinforcement of vocational education and training in social policy field of the modern welfare states. In the next section, I want to describe survey of activation policy, which includes previous studies and one good practice. In part three, I’m going to look at case of the Danish activation. Finally, the presentation will give some suggestions for how we can interpret reinforcement of vocational education and training in the context of social policy.