Skills for Green and Just Transitions. Reflecting on the role of Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development

Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. The conceptual level.
2.1. The debates on green economy and green skills.
2.2. The need to go beyond the VET orthodoxy .
2.3. The way forward: Suggestions for alternative approaches to sustainability, skills and VET.
2.3.1. Reflecting on approaches to education and ideas about learning.
2.3.2. Greening institutions.
2.3.3. Reorienting the VET system.
3. The policy level.
3.1. Donor approaches.
3.2. Green Skills – everywhere but no-where: understanding how skills systems respond to the green economy: The example of South Africa.
4. Conclusions.