How Can the VET Sector Drive the Adoption of Sustainable Practices in Industry?
Overview & Synopsis
Vocational education and training (VET) is often considered the enigma of education. For those that work in or research sustainable education within the schools and higher education sections, VET appears somewhat like the mysterious second cousin: often difficult to access and difficult to understand. VET differs quite markedly from the other education sectors. Its industry, skill and competency foci have been established through a distinct range of national and international drivers. Both the limited understanding of how VET operates and its institutional characteristics has bound the integration of sustainable education practices within the sector. This paper provides a brief overview of the VET sector within Australia and provides some insight into how sustainable education practices are being developed in VET. The recognition of elements of common ground between VET and sustainable education are proposed as an entree into the sector that can influence the adoption of sustainable practices by industry. (Contains 22 endnotes.)
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Document Information
| Document Title | How Can the VET Sector Drive the Adoption of Sustainable Practices in Industry? |
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| Author / Organization | Kent, Jenny |
| Subject & Discipline | Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education |
| Categories | Education & Pedagogy |
| Publication Year | 2004 |
| License / Rights | Public Domain / Open Access Educational Resource |
| Resource Verification | Listed PDF (Verification Pending) |
| Original Host Website |
ERIC (Education Resources)
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| File Format | application/pdf (Portable Document Format) |
| Language | EN |
| Catalog ID | DOC-104675 |
| Original Source Link | Visit Source Page on eric.ed.gov » |