Vocationalism and Liberal Education: exploring the tensions
WILLIAMS K.
1994
Journal of Philosophy of Education
22
10.1111/j.1467-9752.1994.tb00315.x
Vocationalism is distinguished from vocational education and distinctions are drawn between the various senses in which vocationalism or the pursuit of vocational ‘relevance’ can be understood. The burden of the argument of the essay is that vocationalism, understood as teaching skills in virtue of their putative vocational usefulness or relevance, is misguided both on prudential and educational grounds. A basis for some reconciliation between liberal and vocational learning is found in the fact that learning for its own sake and learning for vocational purposes need not be conceived as mutually exclusive activities. Copyright © 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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