Research

Professor mso at Roskilde University and

 Recent research projects

Key areas of research

Ÿ  Vocational education and training systems in a comparative perspective

Ÿ  Planning and policy of education and training

Ÿ  Youth studies, school to work transitions and labour market careers 

Ÿ  Social and gender inequalities in education and work

Ÿ  Connections between work and education

Ÿ  Adult education with a special interest in low skilled workers

Research activities

Ÿ  Partner in Norwegian research counsel project 2016-20 on VET and migration Moving Trades, Fafo, (including researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark).

Ÿ  Research leader of a Nordic, comparative research project “The Future of Vocational Education - Learning from the Nordic Countries” with a grant from NordForsk 2013 – 2017. www.Nord-VET.dk

Ÿ  Research leader of major research project on ‘failing boys’ in Danish higher secondary education 2012-16 supported by a grant from the Velux Foundation. www.drible.dk

Ÿ  Participant in a comparative Nordic research project on relations between vocational education and the labour market 2010-11 supported by Nordic Council of Ministers. 

Ÿ  Research project 2009-10 on school based vocational education in Denmark with Ida Juul, DPU funded by Danish Ministry of Education. 

Ÿ  Participant in major national research project Fastholdelse af elever i det danske erhvervs-uddannelsessystem (retention of student in the Danish VET) funded by the Strategic Research Council in collaboration of 6 Danish universities institutions 2009 – 2013. 

Ÿ  Partner in European research project Hybrid Qualifications on the connection between VET and Higher Education in Germany, England, Austria and Denmark in 2009 - 2011.

Ÿ  Participant in a comparative Nordic research project on retention in higher secondary education 2009 – 2010 supported by Nordic Council of Ministers. 

Ÿ  Participant in a comparative Nordic research project on school to work transitions in the Nordic countries 2007-2009. 

Ÿ  Coordinator of research project the Role of Vocations in the Danish VET system 2006-08.

Ÿ  Participant in research project Learning environments at the workplace funded by The Centre for Development of Human Resources and Quality Management (SCKK). 

Ÿ  Co-director of major research project Learning in Working Life 2001 – 2004 under Professor Knud Illeris in collaboration between four universities and research groups.

Academic and work experience

Ÿ  2014 – Professor mso Department of Psychology &Educational Studies, Roskilde University

Ÿ  2010 - 2011 Guest professor at Stockholm University, UTEP

Ÿ  2001 – 2014 Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology & Educational Studies, Roskilde University

Ÿ  1999 – 2001 Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology &Educational Studies

Ÿ  1994 – 1999 Scientific assistant and doctoral student in Ph.D. project on educational planning and work life at Department of Psychology &Educational Studies, Roskilde University

Ÿ  1992 – 1994 Secretary for the Nordic research project Future of the Nordic Labour Market Model

Ÿ  1994 – 1997 Educational consultant for the Danish Confederation of Food & Beverage Workers

Ÿ  1992 – 1994 Teacher of teacher training and educational consultant at Department of Labour Market Training of the Danish Ministry of Labour.

Ÿ  1986 – 1992 Teacher and project manager at the Youth Training Programme under the Labour Market Training Center (Arbejdsmarkedsuddannelserne, AMU). 

Ÿ  1984 – 1985 Assistant at Developmental School Project in Central America

Ÿ  1979 – 1986 Employments as technician and skilled mechanic at DISA, B&W Motors, a.o.

Educational credentials

Ÿ  1999 – 2010 Further training in project management, ICT, didactics, scientific method, a.o.

Ÿ  1999 Phd in Educational Studies at Roskilde University 

Ÿ  1995 Master of Adult education and Human Resource development at Roskilde University 

Ÿ  1992 Master of Social Sciences (cand.scient.soc.) at Roskilde University

Ÿ  1990 Bachelor of Social Sciences at Roskilde University

Ÿ  1989 ‘Pædagogikum’: Diploma in vocational pedagogy from Danish Institute of Vocational Teacher Training.

Ÿ  1979 – 86 Further training programmes in programming and Adult Education and pedagogy

Ÿ  1975 - 1979 Apprenticeship at GERIAS machinery manufacturer and journeyman’s certificate in engineering at Vocational College of Copenhagen

Network and boards

Ÿ  Member of 2015 of Management Board of Journal of Vocational Education and Training.

Ÿ  Member from 2013 of Editorial Board of Utbildning och Lärande and International Journal for research in Vocational Education and Training.

Ÿ  Member of board of Nordyrk, Nordic Vocational education and training research network from 2010-15 and co-organiser of the Nordyrk Conference in Roskilde in 2012 and 2016.

Ÿ  Co-initiater and member of the second ESREA network Work & Learning from 2011 and co-convenor of the second network conference at Osnabrück University, Germany, March 31—April 2, 2014. www.wll-conference-2014.de

Ÿ  Chief editor 2005 – 09 of the Danish Journal of Work Life, a refereed Danish research journal: http://www.nyt-om-arbejdsliv.dk/

Ÿ  Member 2006 – 2014 of Editorial Board of Human Resource Development Review and referee of several other journals

Ÿ  Member of National VET Research Network in Denmark (Forsker-Praktiker Netværket) from 2003 and member of the coordinating committee 2008-12.

Ÿ  Participant in VETNET under the EERA 2003-2016 http://www.vet-research.net/about

Ÿ  Member of international Research Network VET and Culture from 2004 and organizer of the network conference in Gilleleje, Denmark 2004 http://www.peda.net/veraja/uta/vetculture 

Selected publications

Books

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2018). Learning from vocational education in the Nordic countries. I C. H. Jørgensen, O. J. Olsen, & D. Persson Thunqvist (Eds.), Vocational education in the Nordic countries: learning from diversity. London: Routledge

*       Jørgensen, C. H., Bohlinger, S., Haake, U., & Toiviainen, H. (2015). Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty: Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2013). Linking the dual system with higher education in Denmark: - when strength becomes weakness. I T. Deissinger, J. Aff, A. Fuller, & C. Helms Jørgensen (red.), Hybrid Qualifications: : Structures and Problems in the Context of European vet policy. (s. 53 - 78). Bern : Peter Lang.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (red.) (2013). Drenge og maskuliniteter i ungdomsuddannelserne [Boys and Masculinities in Youth Education]. Frederiksberg: Roskilde University Press.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (red.) (2011). Frafald i erhvervsuddannelserne [Drop-out in Vocational Education]. Frederiksberg: Roskilde University Press.

*       Jørgensen, C. H., & Aarkrog, V. (Eds.) (2008). Divergence and Convergence in Education and Work. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. (Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education).

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2006). Utbildningsplanering: samspel mellan utbildning och arbete [education planning: connecting education and work] Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Selected articles

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2018). The modernisation of the apprenticeship system in Denmark 1945 - 2015. I S. Michelsen, & M-L. Stenström (red.), Vocational education in the Nordic countries: the historical evolution. London: Routledge.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2018). From apprenticeship to higher vocational education in Denmark: - building bridges while the gap is widening. Journal of Vocational Education and Training.
Vol. 69, Nr. 1, s. 64-80.

*       Jørgensen, C.H. (2017), Frafald fra erhvervsuddannelserne: - mellem social eksklusion og institutionel selektion . i Drenges og mænds inklusion på kønnede uddannelser. Frydenlund Academic.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2016). Reformen af erhvervsuddannelserne: En gang til, forfra og om igen . Dansk Paedagogisk Tidsskrift, 2016(4).

*       Jørgensen, C. H., Michelsen, S., Olofsson, J., & Thunqvist , D. P. (2016). Same, but different: – emergence of VET in three Nordic Countries. In Ester Berner & Phillipp Gonon (Eds.), History of Vocational Education and Training: Cases, Concepts and Challenges. (p. 305-326). Bern : Peter Lang.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2016). Shifting problems and shifting policies to reduce students’ drop-out: – the case of vocational education policy in Denmark. In S. Bohlinger , K. A. Dang , & G. Klatt (red.), Education Policy: Mapping the landscape and scope. (p. 325 - 353). Bern: Peter Lang.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2016). ”Jeg er født med det i blodet”: Drenges traditionelle uddannelsesvalg i en senmoderne tid. Dansk Paedagogisk Tidsskrift, 2016(1), 34-48.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2015). Challenges for work-based learning in vocational education and training in the Nordic Countries. I S. Bohlinger, U. Haake, C. H. Jørgensen, H. Toiviainen, & A. Wallo (eds.), Work-based Learning and professional development in times of globalisation. Bern : Peter Lang (p. 159-171).

*       Jørgensen, C. H., Nielsen, K., & Pedersen, L. T. (2015). Students’ Experiences of Ability-based Streaming in Vocational Education. Education + Training, 57(7).

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2015). Some boys' problems in education: – what is the role of VET? Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 67(1), 62-77.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2014). Udfordringer for den arbejdsbaserede læring i erhvervsuddannelserne. I H. Kock (red.), Lärande i arbetslivet – möjligheter och utmaningar: s. 177-197. Linköpings universitet: Linköpings universitet.

*       Jørgensen, C. H., & Nielsen , K. (2013). Frafald fra erhvervsuddannelserne: - mod en mere nuanceret forståelse . Utbildning och Lärande, 7(1), 14-31. [1].

*       Nielsen, K., & Jørgensen, C. H. (2013). Frafald, omvalg eller fravalgt?. Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift, 2013(3), 86 - 96.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2013). The role and meaning of vocations in the transition from education to work. International Journal of Training Research, 11(2), 167-184.

*       Jørgensen, C. H., Deissinger, T., Aff, J., & Fuller, A. (red.) (2013). Hybrid Qualifications: Structures and Problems in the Context of European vet policy. Bern, Peter Lang

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2012). Manglende ungdomsuddannelse: – årsager og løsninger. Samfundsøkonomen, 2012(2), 24-29.

*       Jørgensen, C. H. (2012). Har erhvervsuddannelserne en fremtid?: Styrker og svagheder, udfordringer og potentialer. Dansk Paedagogisk Tidsskrift, (1), 7-13.

*       Juul, I., & Jørgensen, C. H. (2011). Challenges for the Dual system and the occupational self-governance in Denmark. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 63(3), 289-303.