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The Vocational Quest - New Directions in Education and Training (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R4,452
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The Vocational Quest - New Directions in Education and Training (Hardcover, New): Helen Connell, Nicholas Lowe, Malcolm...

The Vocational Quest - New Directions in Education and Training (Hardcover, New)

Helen Connell, Nicholas Lowe, Malcolm Skilbeck, Kirsten Tait

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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 the purpose of education. 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 education concerned with concepts, and training concerned with skills. Now the challenge is to define how 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 than ever before. Meeting this challenge will require profound changes in the educational and training systems in the direction of a core of fundamental studies for all young people, and a more broadly based approach to training. "The Vocational Quest" offers a critical assessment of 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 E

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 1994
First published: 1994
Authors: Helen Connell • Nicholas Lowe • Malcolm Skilbeck • Kirsten Tait
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-10915-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Careers guidance > Industrial or vocational training
LSN: 0-415-10915-9
Barcode: 9780415109154

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