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ERIC Number: EJ411257
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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Vocational Education as Symbolic Action: Connecting Schooling with the Workplace.
Kliebard, Herbert M.
American Educational Research Journal, v27 n1 p9-26 Spr 1990
The relationship between education policy and the workplace is explored in its historical context. Vocational education is examined as instrumental action and as symbolic action linked to the rise of professionalism and the modern industrial system. (SLD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Postsecondary Education, Trend Analysis, Vocational Education, Work Ethic
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Professionalism
Note: Paper is a revision of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, March 27-31, 1989).