Research Catalog

Title

Education, training, and the future of work. II, Developments in vocational education and training / edited by Mike Flude and Sandy Sieminski.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Flude, Michael.
• Sieminski, Sandy.

Description

xv, 268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This volume focuses on the recent changes in education and training policy, mainly in the UK. The considerable developments of the past years and the ways in which they have affected both education and training are examined. The contributors analyse the methods by which we educate our workforce, and look closely at the kind of training now offered to those in work." "Reader II for the Open University module E837."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Vocational education > Great Britain
• Occupational training > Great Britain
• Education and state > Great Britain
• Education and state
• Occupational training
• Vocational education
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Geoff Esland, Mike Flude and Sandy Sieminski -- 1. The roles of the state and the social partners in vocational education and training systems / Andy Green -- 2. Education training and economic performance in comparative perspective / David Finegold -- 3. Vocationalism and educational change / Rob Moore and Mike Hickox -- 4. Industrial training or new vocationalism? Structures and discourses / Stephen Ball -- 5. Contextualising public policy in vocational education and training: the origins of competence-based vocational qualifications policy in the UK / Steve Williams and Peter Raggatt -- 6. The competence and outcomes movement: the landscape of research / Inge Bates -- 7. Reality testing in the workplace: are NVQs 'employment-led'? / John Field -- 8. A critique of NVQs and GNVQs / Alan Smithers -- 9. Ideology and curriculum policy: GNVQ and mass post-compulsory education in England and Wales / Denis Gleeson and Phil Hodkinson -- 10. The implementation of GNVQs in further education: a case study / Margaret Bird, Geoff Esland and Jane Greenberg / [et al.] -- 11. The politics of training in Britain: contradictions in the TEC initiative / Jamie Peck -- 12. Markets, outcomes and the quality of vocational education and training: some lessons from a Youth Credits pilot scheme / Phil Hodkinson and Heather Hodkinson -- 13. Policy and accountability / Lee Harvey and Peter Knight.

ISBN

• 0415202108
• 9780415202107
• 0415202116
• 9780415202114
• 9781136289712
• 1136289712

LCCN

98027622

OCLC

• ocm39334653
• 39334653
• SCSB-1259250

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library