Education, training and the new vocationalism: experience and policy

The chapters in this volume are derived from a conference on education and training, held in Oxford in 1986. The conference brought together academic researchers committed to ethnographic and interactionist methods for the study of educational institutions and processes. The contents are as follows: Ethnography, policy and the emergence of the new vocationalism / Geoffrey Walford, June Purvis and Andrew Pollard; Instrumentalism and education: 14-18 rhetoric and the 11-16 curriculum / Maurice Holt and William A. Reid; The rise and fall of vocational education / John Evans and Brian Davies; Whatever happened to the Newsom course? / Robert G. Burgess; 'It's not like normal lessons: you don't have to wag school any more' / David Hustler; The schools vocational programme: 'factories and industry': a deficit project for the transition of youth from school to the labour market / Chris Shilling; The new vocationalism: the response of a sixth-form college / Mairtin Mac an Ghaill; Girls and occupational choice: in search of meanings / Janet Holland; An ethnographic study of a YTS course / Anthony Rosie; Flexible workers for flexible firms? / Carol Buswell; Ethnography and public policy / Janet Finch. Show less