Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Vocational Education
(Functionalist/New Right)
- Work related study in
school/college/apprenticeship. The learners aquire
job specific knowledge and skills mainly on the job
or in worklike situations
- New vocationalism
- he main function of education
is to provide the economy with
a skilled work force
- Examples of Vocational Education
- Youth Training Scheme
- Apprenticeships
- NVQ/GNVQ
- Criticisms
- Marxists argue that NV
serves the needs of
capitalism and reproduces
inequalities
- Finn
- YTS provided cheap labour for employers and kept
unemployment statistics down and kept youths off
the streets
- Buswell
- Found YTS channelled girls into low paid
"women's work" such as retail