Challenging the vocational education and training for development orthodoxy

The orthodox account of vocational education and training [VET] for development is firmly based in Neoliberal assumptions about the primacy of the economic. Yet, there are a range of alternative accounts of development, receiving increasing attention, that stress the importance of a wider vision of humanity and human development. At the same time, there are longstanding, though more marginal, traditions of seeing vocational education as having a moral purpose, linked to learning to becoming more human. This paper seeks to connect these two traditions to offer a new way of thinking about VET fo... Show more

Authors: McGrath, Simon

Published: Unpublished, 2012

Resource type: Conference paper

Physical description: 21 p.

Access item: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1654/

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