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This foundational text makes use of advances in cognition & social theory to demonstrate how & why schools & teachers must reorient traditional approaches to vocational education. The book serves as a main text or as supplementary reading in teacher training courses & will be a valuable sourcebook ...

This foundational text makes use of advances in cognition & social theory to demonstrate how & why schools & teachers must reorient traditional approaches to vocational education. The book serves as a main text or as supplementary reading in teacher training courses & will be a valuable sourcebook for administrators & education scholars. Contents: Foreword, Fred Schied. THE NATURE OF WORK. A Sense of Purpose. Modernism & the Evolution of the Technocratic Mind. Power & the Development of the Modernist Economy. Good Work, Bad Work, & the Debate over Ethical Labor. THE HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. The Origins of Vocational Education. The Progressive Debate, the Victory of Vocationalism, & the Institutionalization of Schooling for Work. Failures & Reforms: The Recent History of Vocational Education. COPING WITH & DIRECTING CHANGE. Post-Fordism & Technopower: The Changing Economic & Political Arena. Democratic Post-Fordist Workplaces & Debating the Changing Purposes of Vocational Education. Confronting & Rethinking Educational Theory: Critical Vocational Pedagogy & Workers as Researchers. RACE, CLASS, & GENDER. Plausible Deniability: The Skeleton in Vocational Education's Closet. A Touch of Class. Accounting for Gender. Howlin' Wolf at the Door: Race, Racism, & Vocational Education. THE ROLE OF LABOR & UNIONS IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Democratic Unionism in the Global Economy & Corporate-Directed Vocational Education. The New Unionism & the Struggle for a Democratic Social Movement. A VISION OF GOVERNMENT, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, & THE FUTURE. Worker Civics: The Decline of the Nation-State & the Rise of Corporate Government. A Reconceptualized Government for the Twenty-First Century.

Conventional apprenticeships and older methods of professional training are not providing enough skilled workers - governments, companies and colleges are now using open and distance learning to fill these gaps. Published in association with the Commonwealth of Learning, this unique review provides ...

Conventional apprenticeships and older methods of professional training are not providing enough skilled workers - governments, companies and colleges are now using open and distance learning to fill these gaps. Published in association with the Commonwealth of Learning, this unique review provides detailed analysis of worldwide experiences of vocational training and distance education. It looks at recent policy and practice at different levels - from trans-national programmes and national policies to institutional and programme models. Offering guidance on how distance education and new technologies are being used to support vocational education and training, this book will help senior institutional managers and policy makers to understand and appreciate: * the role distance education can play in increasing skills levels in young people and the existing workforce * the challenges in using educational technologies, and distance education to deliver vocational education and training * how to devise effective policies to meet these challenges.