Overview

This text takes up the debate about matching vocational education with the labour market, and shows progress in terms of theoretical models, tools (transformation and matching processes), and learning environments. The contributions address the concepts of qualifications and skilling, the role, strengths and weaknesses of practical training, models and processes of becoming skilled, and whether or not one should try to plan the content of vocational programmes in accordance with changing qualifications requirements and skill needs in the labour market is the essential question. The search for effective tools, techniques and transformation models to bridge the skills gap between vocational education and the labour market has produced scenarios, policies, matching models, skill models, and best practices and experiences. The similarity in solutions, showing up the need for core or key skills, the necessity of embedding learning skills in authentic and guided learning environments, shows a perspective of research and developmental work to be tested in schools and in workplaces, to find better curricula for a better skilling.

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Author:   W.J. Nijhof ,  Jittie Brandsma
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.160kg
ISBN:  

9780792356530

ISBN 10:   0792356535
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   28 February 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Bridging the Skills Gap: The Search for Powerful Skills, Tools and Techniques.- 1: Skill Formation.- 2 Scenarios of Work, Technology and Education for the Post-2000 Period.- 3 A Sociological Framework for Analysing Labour-Market Influences on Education.- 4 The Role of Labour Market Programmes in Skill Formation: The Case of Sweden.- 2: Matching Methods and Experiences.- 5 Linking School to Work: Methods for Developing Occupational and Training Profiles.- 6 Bringing the Professional Back in.- 7 Towards a Method for the Formulation of Key Qualifications and Core Problems.- 3: Learning, Skills and Curricula.- 8 Inserting Transferable Skills into the Vocational Curriculum.- 9 Integrated Learning of Complex Qualifications.- 10 Increasing Complexity in Vocational Education.- 11 The Acquisition of Broad Occupational Competence in Vocational Education.- 12 Introducing Integrating Management: The Need for New Performance Requirements.

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