Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited (Hardcover)

Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited Book Description

The book is a cutting-edge contribution to the debate which has occurred for some time on the pros and cons of secondary education becoming more closely and explicitly related to preparing young people for the world of work. The book provides concrete examples of the vocationalisation of secondary education, with particular reference to the situation in Africa.The book appears in the Springer book series on "Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects" and complements the "International Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training" and other publications in the "International Library of TVET" all of which are publications of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for TVET in Bonn, Germany.

About the Author :

Jon Lauglo has contributed to Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited as an author. Jon Lauglo, born 1943 in Norway, is Senior Education Specialist in the Africa Region of the World Bank, Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Senior Researcher at NOVA-Norwegian Social Research Oslo. Previously he taught Comparative and International Education at the University of London Institute of Education and served as Scientific Director of a Program that financed applied research on education, at the Norwegian Research Council. He received his university education in the USA at Reed College and the University of Chicago.

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