The Vocational Quest: New Directions in Education and Training

by Connell,Helen

• ISBN13: 9780415109154
• ISBN10: 0415109159
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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-honored boundaries between educations concerned with concepts and training and those concerned 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 Questmaps 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 expenseof others.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Series Editor's Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Emergence of the New Vocationalism	p. 1
Educational Foundations for Working Life	p. 24
The Core Learnings Challenge	p. 41
The 'schooling' and 'Working Life' Models	p. 62
National Moves towards a New Vocationalism in England and Wales	p. 106
Historical Roots	p. 138
New Schemes for Training British Youth	p. 163
Vocational Initiatives for Schools and Colleges	p. 199
Education and Training for All Youth	p. 228
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 263
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