Overview
- Informs cross-cultural research on VET First volume to bring together facts and figures on VET in the United States
- Provides a comprehensive overview and detailed insights into technical education in the United States
- Helps readers to understand the US vocation system
Part of the book series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (TVET, volume 15)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- American Community College
- US vocational system
- VET
- apprenticeship US
- apprenticeship un the USA
- career guidance and technical education
- community college
- further education
- multitier VET
- technical vocational education and training
- vocational education United States
- vocational education and training
- vocationalism
About this book
This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research. The international reader will find an up-to-date synthesis as well as a critical analysis of the relevant history, philosophy, governance, legislation and organizational structures. The coverage is structured according to the benchmarks applied to, as well as the theoretical discussions around, VET. The topics covered all have a strong contemporary relevance and include education versus qualification, the American community college, the issue of localization versus globalization in governance, vocationalism in higher education, career guidance and career counselling, and apprenticeships in the U.S.
This book supports the assertion of the relevance of career and technical education —both for the individual and the labour market. Scholars, policy makers and practitioners interested in issues of vocational education and training, technical education, and career education will find this collection of critical and reflective discussions very useful in any analysis of the features of VET approaches taken in America.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Work and Education in America
Book Subtitle: The Art of Integration
Editors: Antje Barabasch, Felix Rauner
Series Title: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2272-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2271-2Published: 20 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3749-5Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2272-9Published: 24 September 2011
Series ISSN: 1871-3041
Series E-ISSN: 2213-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 272
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education