Vocational and General Education: New Relationship or Shotgun Marriage?

Autor/in	Jacobs, James
Institution	League for Innovation in the Community Coll.
Titel	Vocational and General Education: New Relationship or Shotgun Marriage?
Quelle	6 (1993) 9, (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Community Colleges; Curriculum Development; General Education; Integrated Curriculum; Job Skills; Job Training; Labor Force Development; Liberal Arts; School Business Relationship; Technical Education; Technology Education; Thinking Skills; Two Year Colleges; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Arbeitskräftebestand; Technikunterricht; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Denkfähigkeit; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	Trends in the workplace and legislative mandates have forced community colleges to consider how to integrate general education with vocational training successfully. The technological base of American industry has changed dramatically in the direction of greater complexity and interdependence, requiring workers to possess not only higher levels of basic skills but also new skills in critical thinking, problem solving, initiative, and collaboration. The following principles can guide the integration of general education and vocational training: (1) the critical thinking skills that come from the general education curriculum are central to the successful implementation of new technologies and the understanding of how technologies fit into production strategies; (2) instruction in basic skills is necessary if workers are to compute, deduce, and communicate answers to on-the-job problems; (3) the ability to learn, grow, change, and transfer skills is increasingly required in the workplace; (4) workers must be able to integrate basic skills with the shifts in workplace and market demands; (5) community college vocational faculty need to relearn and update their own knowledge and skills; and (6) workers need to expand their skills to include information gathering, analytical and critical thinking, and decision making. The result of integrating general and vocational education will be workers with higher skills, paid higher wages, and able to compete in the global economy. Community colleges are challenged to redesign their vocational programs, drawing upon their expertise in general education, to respond to the changing workplace needs. (ECC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01