Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá
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Prof. Dr. Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá
Full Professor, Chair of Didactics and School Organization, University of Valencia
Bio and Research Interests
Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá has been Professor in Didactics and School Organization at University of Valencia (Spain) since 1998 and Full Professor and Chair since 2011.
Lecturer in the bachelor’s degrees of Primary Teachers and Social Education and in the masters of Secondary Education and VET, Pedagogy, and Social Economy.
He has researched and published on policies and practices at the crossroads among social education, adult education and vocational education and transitions between education and work; alternance, apprenticeship, policy reform and transfer of VET and dual VET, second chance education and on-the-job training, particularly for vulnerable population.
Coordinator since 1995 of the interdisciplinary research group Transitions, which was awarded the European Research Award in 2019 by the European Commission and which holds long-standing cooperation agreements with the Spanish Federation of Work Integration Enterprises and the Spanish Association of Second Chance Schools.
Coordinador of 4 national research projects, 2 regional research projects and the Spanish teams of 2 European research projects; supervised 15 dissertations and taken part in several Leonardo and Erasmus+ projects.
Member of the board of VETNET, the network of research on VET within the EERA; member of the VET&Culture network; member of the editorial team of a couple of international journals and reviewer in several education journals. Co-organizer of the Crossing Boundaries in VET in 2018 in Valencia and of the VET&Culture meetings in 2015 and 2024 in Valencia.
Visiting Fellow
1991, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2023, Johannes Gutenberg University – Mainz, Germany
2014, University of Augsburg, Germany
2018, University of Köln, Germany
1995, Institute of Education, University of London
1996, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
2023, University of Brasilia, Brazil
2024, Swiss Federal University of Vocational Education and Training, Switzerland
PhD
1994, Doctor in Philosophy and Sciences of Education with a dissertation on alternance in VET, University of Valencia
Recent publications
Marhuenda-Fluixá, F. (2026). Can a VET System Evolve Without Looking Abroad? On Policy Transfer and the Extent of Spain-Europe Relations. In: Barabasch, A., Bohlinger, S., Wolf, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Policy Transfer in Vocational Education and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99617-7_18
Inés Renta-Davids, A., Marhuenda-Fluixà, F., Bell-Sebastián, J., & Palomares-Montero, D. (2026). Reengaging Early School-Leavers Through Second-Chance Education: A Research Synthesis From a European Perspective. Review of Educational Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543251400769
Marhuenda-Fluixá, F. & Martínez-Morales, I. (2025). Dual VET the Spanish way. Dual without apprenticeships? In O. Valiente, S. Maitra, P. Gonon and M. Pilz (eds.). International Transfer of Dual Modes of VET, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003589303
Marhuenda-Fluixà, F., & Bonoli, L. (2025). Between Selection and Inclusion in Vocational Education and Training. Contrasting Switzerland and Spain. International Journal of Vocational Education Studies, 2(1), 43-66. https://doi.org/10.48439/ijves.v2i1.294
Bell Sebastián, J., Marhuenda Fluixá, F., & Carmona Rodríguez, C. (2025). Vocational education and training pathways of students with a migrant background in Europe: a systematic review. Educational Review, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2025.2514038
Marhuenda-Fluixá, F. (2024). Education Systems, Lockdown, and Restrictions: Education Reconsidered. In: Hepp, R.D. (eds) Shifts and reorientation within the social-crisis and catastrophe: towards the realization of pandemic epistemological processes. Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43041-2_5
Marhuenda-Fluixá, F. (2024). Informal Learning of Vulnerable People in Vocational Training. In: Pilz, M. (eds) Informal Learning in Vocational Education and Training. Internationale Berufsbildungsforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44341-2_5
Molpeceres, M., Martínez-Morales, I., Bernad, J. C., & Marhuenda-Fluixá, F. (2024). Non-profit organizations in training for employment: On the transformative potential of their critique of education. European Educational Research Journal, 23(5), 673-691. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041241257018 (Original work published 2024)
Contact Information
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