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Direct linkStevenson, John – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
This article explores the concept of the "vocational" in contemporary educational discourses, and argues for the centrality of vocational aspects of learning in making meaning. The existing tensions are seen to lie between discourses that place the vocational at the bottom of a hierarchy of knowledge and value, and discourses concerning…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Meta Analysis, Vocational Education, Background
