What do we learn from 40 years of history?: issues in VET teacher education from Kangan to today
Francesca Beddie asserts that 'history ... currently plays little part in governmental processes and does not meet its potential as a contributor to wider policy debate'. Adopting a book-ends approach in analysing two critical periods of time four decades apart - 1974-81 and 2011-16 - this paper examines key issues in Australian VET teacher education in the 1970s and compares them with the present. It aims to address the question: What has been learnt over that time? Through comparative historical research, a method of social science that examines historical events in order to seek explanation ... Show more
Authors: Harris, Roger
Published: Abingdon, England, Taylor and Francis, 2017
Resource type: Article
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