Vocational Education Purposes, Traditions and Prospects

This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single tex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Billett, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: Vocational Education: A field and sector of education
  • Chapter Two: Positioning vocational education
  • Chapter Three: Vocations
  • Chapter Four: Occupations
  • Chapter Five: Development of vocational education systems and fields
  • Chapter Six: Purposes of Vocational Education
  • Chapter Seven: Curriculum and Vocational Education
  • Chapter Eight: The provision of vocational education
  • Chapter Nine: Vocational education in prospect