When Expectations Clash: Vocational Education at the Intersection of Workplace and School

Autor/in	Tyson, Ruhi
Titel	When Expectations Clash: Vocational Education at the Intersection of Workplace and School
Quelle	In: Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 47 (2016) 1, S.51-63 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-4805
DOI	10.1007/s10780-015-9271-5
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Expectation; Work Experience Programs; Case Studies; Social Development; Blended Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Expectancy; Erwartung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Soziale Entwicklung
Abstract	Next to highly regarded varieties of apprenticeship-based vocational education there are, in many countries, forms of mainly school-based VET (vocational education and training) that suffer from a clash of expectations between schools and workplaces as sites of vocational education. School-based VET is viewed as of lesser value compared to work experience or workplace based training and one reason for such negative views on mainly school-based VET is the lack of authentic work-related experiences in schools. In what follows I will, based on a case study of a social development project, argue that there is a potential hybrid form of school-based VET that could deal with this issue of authenticity by working around the usual binary of school and workplace. This has resulted in some suggestions for how to reconsider vocational education curricula in schools, aiming at authentic learning environments through the systematic enactment of social and cultural developmental projects. The result is not only a way of dealing with the problems that face school-based VET but an argument for how to take advantage of schools being predominantly cultural institutions. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Springer. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: service-ny@springer.com; Web site: http://www.springerlink.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01