Some Practical Limits of Curriculum Vocationalization as a Remedy to School Leavers' Unemployment: Focus on Malawi.

Msiska, F. G. W.

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ERIC Number: EJ493460

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Publication Date: 1994

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Some Practical Limits of Curriculum Vocationalization as a Remedy to School Leavers' Unemployment: Focus on Malawi.

Msiska, F. G. W.

International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, v40 n2 p135-58 1994

Discusses the efforts of Malawi to "vocationalize" general academic education to help alleviate the unemployment problems of secondary school leavers. Given the costs of vocational education and the number of unmet basic human needs in the country, concludes that vocational training should be left to specialist institutions outside general education. (33 references) (MAB)

Descriptors: Curriculum Problems, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, General Education, Secondary Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Vocational Education, Withdrawal (Education)

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Malawi

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