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This comprehensive textbook looks at current issues in learning and teaching across the three key areas of policy, learning and practice. It will help you to think critically on your Education course, and to make connections between the processes of learning and the practicalities of teaching. Contemporary Issues in Learning and Teaching addresses key issues in primary, secondary and special education. The contributors reflect on current thinking and policy surrounding learning and teaching, and what it means to be a teacher today. Looking at the practice of teaching in a wider context allows you to explore some of the issues you will face, and the evolving expectations of your role in a policy-led environment. The book focuses on core areas of debate including education across different contexts and settings, teaching in an inclusive environment, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for practitioners.This essential text can be used across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including BEd/BA degrees, initial teacher-training courses, and Masters in Education programs.
Education and Work
Education and Work
Key Ideas Explored in This Chapter are
- Work-related education policy
- Education and society
- Moral citizens
- Economic sustainability
- Globalisation and knowledge economy
- Teachers’ awareness of work-related requirements
This chapter looks at one particular area of policy development, that of work-related education, and considers the social, cultural and economic imperatives that have driven developments in this area. Formal education has a wide range of purposes and in school education there are two major purposes that relate particularly to education's connection with the world of work. The first purpose is the preparation of young people for their current and future social and economic roles in society and making informed choices about how they will engage with careers, career development and their prospects of making themselves economically self-sufficient in their ...
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