Schooling in the Workplace (eBook)

How Six of the World's Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life

Nancy Hoffman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
224 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-445-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Schooling in the Workplace investigates six international schools that promote vocational, college prep, and job-ready programs. For U.S. districts, this book represents an alternative, more successful solution for preparing kids for college.

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Which non-American education systems best prepare young people for fulfilling jobs and successful adult lives? And what can the United Stateswhere far too many young people currently enter adulthood without adequate preparation for the twenty-first-century job marketlearn, adopt, and adapt from these other systems?In Schooling in the Workplace, Nancy Hoffman addresses these questions head on, arguing that ';the smartest and quickest route to a wide variety of occupations for the majority of young people in the successful countriesnot a default for failing studentsis a vocational program that integrates work and learning.' As she notes, the programs that successfully integrate work and learning all share a fundamental commitment to helping young people find successful careers: ';The purpose is not ';college for all,' as in the United States today, but rather to provide the education and training young people need to prepare for a career or calling.'Schooling in the Workplace explores the vocational education programs in a wide range of countries, focusing in rich and useful detail on six in particular: Australia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland. Framing these discussions, however, is a persistent focus on American circumstances and challenges. Far more than a survey of six ';foreign' programs, this is a book prompted by and organized around the policy and practical challenges facing the United States.

Autor

Nancy Hoffman is a vice president and senior advisor at Jobs for the Future. Stanley S. Litow is Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at IBM and president of IBM’s International Foundation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Work and Learning Series
• Reihe/Serie: Work and Learning Series
• Vorwort: Stanley S. Litow
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Schlagworte: Business and education • community colleges, company-based learning • CTC staff development • National Center for Vocational Education Research • twenty-first century job market • vocational education
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-445-0 / 1612504450
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-445-2 / 9781612504452