Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of what education is for. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between educations concerned with concepts and training, or with skills. The challenge now is to define how the schools can give young people the foundations for life in a working world in which they are likely to have to change jobs and where work will fill a smaller proportion of their lives. The Vocational Quest maps the evolution of vocationalism in Britain in historical terms and examines how the particular forms that have come into being in the last few years compare with developments in other parts of the world, including Continental Europe, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It argues for new forms of communication and partnership between formal education and training and the wider community, in which values will be shared and no one partner will win at the expense of others.
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Malcolm Skilbeck, Helen Connell, Nicholas Lowe and Kirsten Tait are all with the OECD, Paris.
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In this chapter,we outline the diverse and numerous factors that lie behind the emergence of new - and the reinforcement of some old - forms of vocationalism: what is meant by a vocational orientation in the education of young people, and why it has emerged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vocationalising education, transferable core skills, new vocationalism, planned work experience, recognised vocational qualifications, vocational dimension, youth training scheme, compulsory years, occupational competence, vocational learning, schooling model, recognised qualifications, youth labour market, vocational elements, upper secondary education, measurable skills, vocational education, vocational preparation, vocational programmes, common core curriculum, vocational studies, core learnings, other industrialised countries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Education Act, Northern Ireland, Confederation of British Industry, Secretary of State, Clarendon Commission, Core Skills Project, City Technology Colleges, Department of Employment, Manpower Services Commission, Royal Society of Arts, Schools Inquiry, United Kingdom, Australian Education Council, National Commission, West Germany, Certification Board, Great Britain, Second World War, Taunton Commission, Board of Education, Royal Commission, Diploma of Vocational Education, Nation At Risk, National Curriculum Council New!
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In this chapter,we outline the diverse and numerous factors that lie behind the emergence of new - and the reinforcement of some old - forms of vocationalism: what is meant by a vocational orientation in the education of young people, and why it has emerged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vocationalising education, transferable core skills, new vocationalism, planned work experience, recognised vocational qualifications, vocational dimension, youth training scheme, compulsory years, occupational competence, vocational learning, schooling model, recognised qualifications, youth labour market, vocational elements, upper secondary education, measurable skills, vocational education, vocational preparation, vocational programmes, common core curriculum, vocational studies, core learnings, other industrialised countries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Education Act, Northern Ireland, Confederation of British Industry, Secretary of State, Clarendon Commission, Core Skills Project, City Technology Colleges, Department of Employment, Manpower Services Commission, Royal Society of Arts, Schools Inquiry, United Kingdom, Australian Education Council, National Commission, West Germany, Certification Board, Great Britain, Second World War, Taunton Commission, Board of Education, Royal Commission, Diploma of Vocational Education, Nation At Risk, National Curriculum Council New!
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- FUTUR IMPACT TECHN WORK PB (Stanford Series on Education and Public Policy) by Burke & Ru in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- New Technology by Sounter Information Services in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Portrait of an Age (Phoenix Press) by G.M. Young on page 139, and Back Matter
- SKILLS & VOCATIONALISM PB by Holt M in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The National Curriculum. Key Stages 1 and 2: Handbook for Primary Teachers in England by Department For Education &. Employment on page 35, and Back Matter
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- Teaching and Training in Post-Compulsory Education (Society for Research Into Higher Education) by Andy Armitage in Back Matter
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