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Behaviourism and Training: The Programmed Instruction Movement in Britain, 1950-1975
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Field, John – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
The paper examines the influence of behaviourism on vocational education and training in Britain in the period between the Second World War and the mid-1970s. By the 1970s, behaviourism provided deeply-rooted underlying curricular and pedagogic principles that were widely accepted by VET professionals in the UK. Insofar as behaviourist ideas were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocational Education, Behaviorism, Foreign Countries