Education and the world of work: a study prepared for the International Bureau of Education

The 38th session of the International Conference on Education took the subject of young people’s training for productive work as its special theme. This publication documents the discussion of the concepts of work and of training for work through different epochs and across various cultural, political and economic contexts. The chapters are as follows: Part one, ‘Work and society’, contains: Socio-economic dimensions; A work crisis?; The prospects; Part two, ‘Work and training policies’, contains: Trades and apprenticeship in Europe up to the age of manufacturing; Wage earners and education: from manufacturing to industrialization; The last thirty years: policies of educational planning and lifelong education; Part three, ‘Work and skills’, contains: Theories and practices; Towards a technological culture; Work and education: an economic and logical approach; Education and work: from dualism to the system; Part four, ‘Initial education and productive work’, contains: Alternation: a new idea from the past?; From childhood to adolescence; From adolescence to active working life; Entrance into adult life; The world of production: initial studies and alternation; Part five, ‘Work and further training’, contains: Work and the enterprise; Discussions about lifelong education; Further education and workers: needs and effects; The enterprise and further education; Forms of further training and initial education; Some prospects concerning development countries. Show less