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Workplace Learning, VET and Vocational Pedagogy: The Transformation of Practice
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Avis, James – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
The paper addresses workplace learning; vocational pedagogy, education and knowledge; and the transformation of practice. It draws upon discussions of vocationalism, vocational pedagogies as well as the constitution of vocational knowledge(s), debates which are set within particular historical and socioeconomic as well as national contexts. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Educational Change
Class, Economism, Individualisation and Post Compulsory Education and Training
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Avis, James – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
The paper considers the broader policy context in which English Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) is placed, examining the model of class implicit within policy documents and particular currents within new Labour thinking. It notes that class relations and patterns of inequality have deepened. Class as a structural feature of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Problems, Postsecondary Education, Social Class
Post-Compulsory Education and Training: Transformism and the Struggle for Change
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Avis, James – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
The paper addresses a number of issues concerning policy and curriculum in post-compulsory education and training (PCET). Firstly, it seeks to locate PCET within its socio-economic context as it is this that frames curricula within the learning and skills sector and serves to legitimate its particular form. Secondly, the paper addresses the manner…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Educational Change, Socioeconomic Influences