Change And Intervention: Vocational Education And Training

ISBN-13: 9781850006947 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 244 str.

Peter Raggatt Lorna Unwin Both of the Op

Opis

The editors charged contributors to examine individual aspects of policy and practice considering, inter alia, three sub-themes. The first is the competence-based approach and its implementation; the second is an exploration of who are the winners and losers as government has placed national economic development at the heart of its policies and programmers for education and training. A third theme is the process of change and intervention itself. While apparent in all the chapters, it is most easily traced in the case studies where policies initiated at national level by government and other bodies are modified by factors in the local context and are implemented in ways which are acceptable to individual organizations. The New Training Initiative made competence-based qualifications a key component of its agenda for improving Britain's VET performance. This has now emerged as the pervasive influence on both VET policy and practice and, features with different degrees of optimism and unease in several chapters.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Developing Standards, Graham Debling; Chapter 2 Competence and Higher Education, John Burke; Chapter 3 Serving the Needs of Industry?, Richard Guy; Chapter 4 Quality Assurance and NVQs, Peter Raggatt; Chapter 5 Meeting the Needs of a ‘Global Society’, Lorna Unwin; Chapter 6 Cooperation, Coordination and Quality in Employer and Education Partnerships, Ian McNay; Chapter 7 Winners and Losers, Richard Edwards; Chapter 8 Out of the Adult Hut, John Field; Chapter 9 Conditions for Learner Autonomy at a Distance, Lewis Elton; Chapter 10 Changes in Funding, Keith Cook, Geoff Crook; Chapter 11 NVQs and the Man-Made Fibres Industry, Lorna Unwin; Chapter 12 Improvements in Workforce Qualifications, Hilary Steedman;

O autorze

Peter Raggatt