ERIC Number: ED417268
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 161
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ISBN: ISBN-0-909184-98-4
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Vocational Education Today: Topical Issues.
Kenway, Jane, Ed.; Tregenza, Karen, Ed.; Watkins, Peter, Ed.
This book contains 13 papers examining topical issues in vocational education and training (VET) in Victoria, Australia. The following papers are included: "Vocational Education and Schooling: The Changing Scene" (Jane Kenway, Sue Willis, Peter Watkins, Karen Tregenza); "The Enterprise Approach" (James Mulraney); "VET Programs at James Harrison College" (John Bromilow); "'Great Organisations Dream Great Dreams" (David Gallagher); "An Investigation into the Impact of Mentoring Unemployment" (Barbara Hammond); "Issues Confronting Vocational Education in Victorian Schools in the Late 1990s" (Karen Tregenza, Jane Kenway, Peter Watkins); "Participant Pathways and Outcomes in Vocational Education and Training: 1992-95" (Peter Dwyer, Aramiha Harwood, Geoff Poynter, Johanna Wyn); "Paths to Pathways: Educational Pathways for Educationally Disadvantaged Young People" (Jennifer Angwin, Louise Laskey); "Enhancing Girls' Post School Options through Career and Vocational Education" (Jane Kenway, Sue Willis); "Vocational Education Programs: Managing Risk in a Risk Society" (Peter Watkins); "Reframing the Discourse of Skill" (Nancy S. Jackson); "Learning about Poverty, Disadvantage and Justice" (Basil N. Varghese); and "Spectacle in the Dark: Youth as Transgression, Display, and Repression" (Leslie G. Roman). Individual papers contain references. (MN)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities, Educational Practices, Educational Trends, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Justice, Mentors, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Poverty, Program Design, Risk Management, Role of Education, Secondary Education, Trend Analysis, Unemployment, Vocational Education, Womens Education, Youth Programs
Deakin Centre for Education and Change, Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 3217 ($22 Australian).
Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Deakin Univ., Geelong (Australia). Centre for Education and Change.
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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