Training and Its Alternatives
Published on 1. June 1990
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-335-09332-8 (ISBN)
Description
Has vocational education and training failed in Britain? Does training meet the needs of either the individual and of society? How responsive are youth training schemes to their clients? These are just some of the questions addressed in "Training and its Alternatives". It identifies the factors that will affect training in the future: skill shortages, changing work practices and new labour market conditions. It anticipates the likely alternataive curricular, institutional and policy issues necessary to initiate reforms in secondary and further education. In doing so, the book challenges the prevailing view that market forces are the most effective means of determining educational policy. It draws on a variety of historical, sociological, economic and comparative perspectives, in showing where alternative possibilities lie.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-335-09332-8 (9780335093328)
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Content
Part 1 Origins, context and alternatives to youth training: an alternative road; the failure of training in Britain; the context of the youth training scheme; youth labour market processes, outcomes and policies; some alternatives in youth training - franchise and corporatist models. Part 2 Alternatives in secondary and further education: a case study approach - beyond the 1944-88 educational interregnum; student responses to the curriculum; gender reproduction and further education; making YTS responsive to its clients. Part 3 Beyond vocationalism: skills training and its alternatives; knowledge, practice and construction of skill; beyond vocationalism.