Identifying vocational education and training
View/ Open
Author(s)
Moodie, Gavin
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2002
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
This paper observes that vocational education and training's identity has been founded on four types of characteristics: epistemological, teleological, hierarchical and pragmatic. No single characteristic is found to be adequate to identify vocational education and training across jurisdictions and across historical periods. Both Rushbrook and Stevenson seek for vocational education and training what Rushbrook calls an 'abstracted institutional teleology'. Yet such a quest may degenerate into essentialism, and in any case is vulnerable to being made obsolete by the changes which vocational education and training is meant ...
View more >This paper observes that vocational education and training's identity has been founded on four types of characteristics: epistemological, teleological, hierarchical and pragmatic. No single characteristic is found to be adequate to identify vocational education and training across jurisdictions and across historical periods. Both Rushbrook and Stevenson seek for vocational education and training what Rushbrook calls an 'abstracted institutional teleology'. Yet such a quest may degenerate into essentialism, and in any case is vulnerable to being made obsolete by the changes which vocational education and training is meant to be stimulating and equipping us for. The paper concludes by arguing for a definition of vocational education and training which is a compound of the four general characteristics considered.
View less >
View more >This paper observes that vocational education and training's identity has been founded on four types of characteristics: epistemological, teleological, hierarchical and pragmatic. No single characteristic is found to be adequate to identify vocational education and training across jurisdictions and across historical periods. Both Rushbrook and Stevenson seek for vocational education and training what Rushbrook calls an 'abstracted institutional teleology'. Yet such a quest may degenerate into essentialism, and in any case is vulnerable to being made obsolete by the changes which vocational education and training is meant to be stimulating and equipping us for. The paper concludes by arguing for a definition of vocational education and training which is a compound of the four general characteristics considered.
View less >
Journal Title
Journal of Vocational Education and Training
Volume
54
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2002 Taylor & Francis. The author-version of this article will be available for download [12-18 months] after publication. Use hypertext link to the publisher version.
Subject
Education Systems
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Business and Management