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Notes that the further education (FE) sector has changed more over the past decade than any other educational sector in Britain; FE colleges are being assigned a central role in the new post-compulsory system designed to...
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Calls for an expansion of the objectives of vocational education to include consideration of the nature, value, and purpose of work. Finds justification for this in the changing job market and John Dewey's original conce...
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The author argues that the behaviorist approach to learning inherent in competency-based education is inappropriate for teaching and learning at the higher education level, because it both prescribes and restricts conten...
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Argues that the application of competency-based education strategies have served to reduce the educator's role and marginalize teachers' commitment. Criticizes the British approach and describes alternative concepts. Rec...
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Evaluates efforts to incorporate ethical instruction into schooling through emphasis on citizenship and moral competence. Labels such efforts "moral vocationalism." Suggests that the movement has a weak knowledge base, r...
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The reconstruction of the postsecondary sector described in the 1991 White Paper "Education and Training for the 21st Century" leaves many questions unanswered and falls short of labor force demands. Retaining A levels a...