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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Vocational Education
    sub title: Purposes, Traditions and Prospects
  name:
    name part: Billett, Stephen.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 266 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single text that elaborates the scope and diversity of the sector, its key objectives (i.e. vocations and occupations), its formation and development as an education sector, and the scope of its purposes and considerations in the curriculum. The volume achieves these objectives by discussing and defining the concept of vocational education as being that form of education that seeks to advise individuals about, prepare them for, and further develop their capacities to perform the kinds of occupations that societies require and individuals need to participate in—and through which they often come to define themselves. In particular, it discusses the distinctions between occupations as a largely social fact and vocations as being a socially shaped outcome assented to by individuals. As people identify closely with the kinds of occupations they engage in, the standing of, and the effectiveness of vocational education is central to individuals’ well-being, competence and progress. Ultimately, this book argues that the provision of vocational education needs to realise important personal and social goals.
  table of contents: Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Vocational Education: A field and sector of education -- Chapter Two: Positioning vocational education -- Chapter Three: Vocations -- Chapter Four: Occupations -- Chapter Five: Development of vocational education systems and fields -- Chapter Six: Purposes of Vocational Education -- Chapter Seven: Curriculum and Vocational Education -- Chapter Eight: The provision of vocational education -- Chapter Nine: Vocational education in prospect.
  note: by Stephen Billett.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Professional & Vocational Education
  classification: LC1051-1072
  classification: LC1041-1048
  classification: 370.113
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789400719545
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1954-5
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    record creation date: 110630
    record change date: 20141122021507.0
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