Environmental protection: innovations in vocational training and the use of information technology for the purpose of theme-oriented knowledge management

This paper was presented at the UNESCO-sponsored Second International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education. It draws attention to the inclusion of knowledge and skills relating to environmental protection within initial and continuing vocational training. It focuses firstly on the work of the Federal Institute for Vocational Training in Berlin in developing an interdisciplinary concept for environmental education to support teachers in the integration of sound environmental practices into initial vocational training. The paper then focuses on a project addressing the issue of the delivery of continuing vocational training in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) using the World Wide Web as a delivery platform. Two main problems are addressed: the authenticity of the knowledge available and the easy location of the right knowledge for the specific training need at hand.

The final report of the Congress is indexed at TD/INT 59.239; the volume of collected proceedings is indexed at TD/TNC 68.446; individual papers are indexed from TD/INT 58.150 to TD/INT 58.180 and at TD/UNEVOC 58.02, 58.03 and TD/UNEVOC 58.06; the main working document entitled ‘Lifelong learning and training: a bridge to the future’ is indexed at TD/TNC 68.445 and the volume of reference documents is indexed at TD/TNC 68.447. Show less