Full Description
In Knowledge, Curriculum, and Preparation for Work, the editors offer a timely collection of chapters approaching debates on economic and social change and employment within different types of economies. Considering questions of knowledge and curriculum, these works interrogate ways of thinking about relationships between different forms of work and education. The focus is both on the curriculum - the ways in which different types of knowledge affect the quality and organization of curricula that are intended to prepare for work - and the factors influencing and constraining what education can do to prepare for work, as well as how these factors shape and limit the role of educational preparation for work.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Stephanie Allais and Yael Shalem
1 When Is Vocational Education Educationally Valuable? 13
Yael Shalem and Stephanie Allais
2 From Labour Market to Labour Process
Finding a Basis for Curriculum in TVET 30
Jeanne Gamble
3 Applied Theoretical Knowledge and Professional and Vocational Education
Informed Know-How in a Non-Intellectualist Framework 51
Christopher Winch
4 Recontextualisation and the Education-Work Relation 68
Jim Hordern
5 Current Trajectories of the South African Economy and Labour Market 89
Sam Ashman
6 The Idealisation of Apprenticeship 104
Volker Wedekind
7 What should Vocational Qualifications Look Like if the Links between Qualifications and Jobs Are So Weak? 127
Leesa Wheelahan and Gavin Moodie
8 The Radical Realism of Creative Policy Hybridity
How Skill Formation Systems Can Improve Low-Income Country Employment 147
Andrew Lawrence
9 The Unbearable 'Applied-Ness' of Engineering Knowledge 167
Reneé Smit
10 Theory and Practice in the 21st Century Engineering Workplace 182
Karin Wolff
11 Conversion or Diversion?
Curriculum and Non-Cognate Master's Degrees in Applied Disciplinary Fields 206
Lynn Hewlett
12 Understanding Transitions between Work and Formal Qualifications
The Case of RPL 228
Linda Cooper, Judy Harris and Alan Ralphs
Afterword: The Challenge of Bringing Different Worlds Together 249
Michael Young
Index 261
