The Value of VET in promoting human rights, advancing human development and reducing inequality: The case of Palestine

This paper is based on my PhD Research on “The Value of VET in promoting human rights, advancing human development and reducing inequality: The case of Palestine”, and will present its initial findings. The research... [ view full abstract ]

This paper is based on my PhD Research on “The Value of VET in promoting human rights, advancing human development and reducing inequality: The case of Palestine”, and will present its initial findings. The research strives to answer the question: “How can VET reduce gender, youth, refugees’ inequality and contribute to human development?”. This is done by looking at the case of Palestine through a human rights and a human development lens that looks into these inequalities intersectional to each other and to context-related vulnerability. It is also done through analysing within the political economy framework.
The context of the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) adds additional layers of marginalization and inequalities and different context-related vulnerable groups. This reality highlights the importance of applying a different transformative approach in analysing of the value of VET and its contribution to human development.
The research uses human rights based approach to the analysis of the value of VET among the different right holders; vulnerable and marginalised women, youth, refugees, while the new skills formation approach to the political economy is used to analyse the overall structure and social responsibility to skills formation.
The research is expected to contribute to transformative approach, and policy development in Palestine, other South countries, and world-wide. The methodology uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to address the research question that relates to feminist/gender approach to analysing power relations, within a rights based approach that is context-relevant.