Work Based Learning
1st Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-0-8133-6454-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy. The authors contend that work-based learning, if it is done well, can play an important role in strengthening the educational preparation of many young people. Although students can learn job-specific skills in internships or apprenticeships, these types of experiences can have broader academic and developmental benefits as well. Thus work-based learning can be a productive part of a secondary school education designed explicitly to prepare students for college.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-6454-4 (9780813364544)
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Thomas Bailey is the Director of both the Institute on Education and the Economy and the Community College Research Center, and Professor of Economics and Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies, all at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a PhD in labor economics from MIT. He is an expert on the economics of education, educational policy and the educational and training implications of changes in the workplace. Katherine Hughes is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Institute on Education and the Economy, Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Hughes received her Ph.D. from Columbia University's Sociology Department in 1995, and since joining the Institute, she has directed and conducted field research for projects that address the interaction between education and the economy. David Thornton Moore is Associate Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He has been studying work-based learning for over 20 years and has published on the topic in the Harvard Educational Review, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and most recently in the National Society for Experiential Education Quarterly.