The premise of this paper is that vocational and nonvocational education can be reconstructed in a way that uses both in fashioning a new set of courses. This new curriculum should be able to bridge the differences perceived in the relations between academic and vocational cultures. The paper focuses most on educational history, from Aristotle and…

This paper argues the case for collaboration between vocational and academic education, between vocational and academic teachers, and between the professors who prepare the teachers. The premise is that today's society calls for an education that is "general" in the most comprehensive interpretation of the word; that is, in the sense of literacy…