The Vocational Quest

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. The challenge now 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 critically assesses 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 the others.

ISBN 0415109159   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780415109154 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 562 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Foundations of the Market Economy Series Publication date 21 Jul 1994   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress LC1047.G7V   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 370.113   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		Foreword
		Series Editor's Preface
		Acknowledgements
		List of abbreviations
1		Emergence of the New Vocationalism		1
2		Educational Foundations for Working Life		24
3		The Core Learnings Challenge		41
4		The 'Schooling' and 'Working Life' Models		62
5		National Moves Towards a New Vocationalism in England and Wales		106
6		Historical Roots: Origins of Vocationalism in England and Wales		138
7		New Schemes for Training British Youth		163
8		Vocational Initiatives for Schools and Colleges: Enterprise and Partnership Culture		199
9		Education and Training for All Youth		228
		Bibliography		241
		Index		263

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