Vocational education teachers: perspectives on the standing of their educational sector and how it might be improved

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Billett, Stephen
Choy, Sarojni
Le, Anh Hai
Hodge, Steven
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2022
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Young people’s decision-making about postschool pathways are influenced and shaped by parents, teachers, and other familiars. Yet, these familiars are often uninformed about vocational education as it has not been part of their personal experience. Instead, they may reflect and further embed the relatively low standing of that option. The lack of access to informed advice potentially leads to privileging university entrance, and post-school pathways not aligned with young people’s capacities and interests. This raises questions about whether advice, from those familiar with this educational sector and occupations it serves (e.g. vocational educators), would offer different and more helpful advice than familiars. Reported here are perspectives of and advice provided by over 300 vocational educators about educational/training course that may suit young people’s needs, preferences, and ways of engaging and informing them about post-school pathways, and how to enhance vocational education’s standing as a potentially viable post-school pathway.

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International Journal of Training Research

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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the International Journal of Training Research, 2022, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14480220.2022.2081240

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Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy

Continuing and community education

Economics

Education

Human society

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Billett, S; Choy, S; Le, AH; Hodge, S, Vocational education teachers: perspectives on the standing of their educational sector and how it might be improved, International Journal of Training Research, 2022

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