Recognizing Achievement. [and] GNVQs and Working-Class Women: Education or Indoctrination? [and] Accrediting Unpaid Work.

Russell, Ursula; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ498624

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1995

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Recognizing Achievement. [and] GNVQs and Working-Class Women: Education or Indoctrination? [and] Accrediting Unpaid Work.

Russell, Ursula; And Others

Adults Learning (England), v6 n5 p146-51 Jan 1995

Russell states that Britain's General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs) enable women to have paid, volunteer, and community achievements recognized and accredited. Kilminster argues that GNVQ health and social care courses are too strongly driven by ideology. Tiernan shows how women's community groups use NVQs with volunteers. (SK)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Credits, Employment Qualifications, Females, Foreign Countries, Ideology, Recognition (Achievement), Student Certification, Volunteers, Working Class

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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