Educational systems' academic and occupational training may be categorized as compartmentalized (tracked), systematically connected (linked), or fully integrated (unified). Such a typology might be used to model strategic change at higher levels of the UK system of postsecondary training. Successive governments have employed numerous agendas…

This document presents the basics of the career academy, a method of integrating vocational with academic educational systems and of providing a contextually valid education. The first section outlines the problems that the academy systems attempt to address, the four major principles essential for the success of career academies, and the nine…

This paper summarizes strategies that have been successfully implemented at 3 of the 40 pilot sites working toward the goal of improving the academic competencies of students completing high school vocational programs. The strategies were culled from 30 interviews with academic teachers, vocational teachers, counselors, vocational directors,…

Discusses a team teaching approach integrating academic and vocational educational concepts. (SB)

At Bowling Green State University, the faculty-based cooperative education program in computer science has broadened faculty perception of co-op's personal and professional development potential. Survey responses from 69 of 118 alumni validate the contribution of the program to their work experience and individual development. (SK)

Includes "Living Proofs" (Husain), "The Classics in Context" (Cahill), and "When Science Gets Racy" (Lozada), articles that describe a new method for teaching applied mathematics, English literature, and science. (JOW)

Responses from 297 academic and 91 vocational educators in secondary and postsecondary schools showed that academic educators perceived more curriculum integration at their institutions than did vocational educators; postsecondary teachers perceived more integration than did secondary teachers. Administrative practices to support integration…

Requirements to integrate academic and vocational education in the 1990 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act are intended to achieve widespread changes and improvements in the field in a short time frame. This resource list supports the efforts of those educators working to enhance vocational education students' learning…

The study reported in this document was conducted to identify, describe, and assess the potential of innovative approaches to integrating vocational and academic education as one way of helping students to understand the utility of academic learning. Research activities included case studies of five integrated-curriculum programs in California,…

Traditionally, education has been compartmentalized into academic subjects removed from everyday life, and education has been built on blocks going from the concrete to the abstract. However, humans often do not learn in that linear mode, and if they are to be prepared for the work world of the 1990s and beyond, they need a different model.…

Explores the relationship between career education and vocational education (SB)

Charles Benson's 1992 (posthumous) essay presents a vision of a "new vocationalism" that integrates academic and occupational curricula, combines classroom instruction with work-based learning, and connects secondary with postsecondary education. It explains the rationale, summarizes existing evidence, analyzes obstacles, and discusses…

Five partnership academies (computers, finance, space, graphic arts, and visual arts/design) are spread among four Pasadena (California) high schools. Completers earn Certificates of Mastery, participate in paid internships with sponsoring industries, and receive up to one year of college credit toward an associate degree. (SK)

Theme articles discuss the need for agriculture teachers to heed research in science education; describe the landscape horticulture program at Anoka (MN) High School; propose a change of curriculum objectives to ones that teach students career readiness; and describe the East Environmental Science and Agri-Business Magnet High School in Kansas…