Different drums, one beat?: economic and social goals in education and training

In 1997, the Monash-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) and the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) jointly sponsored a conference held on 20-21 March 1997 in Mt Evelyn, Victoria, with the theme of the relationship between the economic and social goals of education and training. Not all the papers delivered at this conference are included in this book and those that are have been edited, amended and/or updated.

This book brings together papers exploring the changing relationship between the social and economic goals of education and training. It is suggested that there is conflict between two dominant perspectives. The first perspective contends that the primary role of education should be to contribute to the achievement of national economic success by developing the human capital required by industries and enterprises, the other that the main goal of education should be to assist individuals to realise their full potential thereby contributing to social and cultural development. The majority of papers focus on the vocational education and training (VET) sector where, because it stands at the direct interface between education and the labour market, the tensions are most apparent.

Papers included in this volume are: The growing imbalance between the economic and social goals of education in the United States / Russel Rumberger; Education and training in Australia: reforms and results / Gerald Burke; Research on higher and vocational education: different drums, different beats, not within earshot of each other / Simon Marginson; The impact of VET research on policy, practice and performance / C. Selby Smith; Successful reform: reframing the national VET policy agenda / Damon Anderson; Beyond the linear models: pathways and outcomes of 1991 Victorian exit students / Peter J. Dwyer and Johanna Wyn; Dollars and sense: economic and social tensions in indigenous education / R.G. Schwab; Participating in VET in Australia: different drives; same needs? / Barry Golding and Veronica Volkoff; TAFE: a practical necessity for university graduates. / Mark C. Werner; Users, goals and user choice in vocational education and training / Martha Kinsman; The potential destruction of the vocational education and training system / Andrew Gonczi; You can take the $ out of the $ocial, but it doesn't make much 'cents': the learning 'community' as the means of reconciliation / Ian H. Falk; Technocrat or visionary? Reflections on the Kangan legacy / Peter Rushbrook and Ross Mackinnon; VET and higher education relations: a response to Marginson / Dianne Holdforth; Policy symbolism and economic realities: ACE, equity and the market / John McIntyre; The Frontline Management Initiative / Kerry Ellerington; The good, the bad and the unknown: equity and user choice in VET / Fran Ferrier; The Australian Vocational Training System pilots: implications for demand-driven approaches to skill formation / Julian Teicher; Employer perceptions of Industry Training Advisory Boards: survey evidence / Mark Wooden; Training: who pays, who benefits?: the case of small retail firms / Ralph Catts; Entry level training and New Apprenticeships: delivery and funding options / Jeff Malley; Different drums, different drummers: but whose beat is authorised? / Terri Seddon; Economic and social goals in education and training: is reconciliation possible?: necessary? / Russell Rumberger.

The individual papers contained in this volume are indexed from TD/TNC 55.86 to TD/TNC 55.108. Show less