Innovations in career and technical education
Subtitle: strategic approaches towards workforce competencies around the globe
By: edited by Victor C.X. Wang and Kathleen P. King.
Contributors: Wang, Victor C.X.; King, Kathleen P., 1958-
Series: Adult education special topics
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlotte, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781593118396; 9781593118402
Subjects: Occupational training; Vocational education; Technical education; Adult learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of vocational education up to 1850 and a rationale for work / Victor C.X. Wang; title: Principles and philosophy of career and technical education and federal funding for vocational education up to the present / Victor C.X. Wang and Kathleen P. King; title: Historical perspectives of the different components of vocational education / Victor C.X. Wang, Kathleen P. King, and Fredrick Muyia Nafukho; title: Current instructional programs in career and technical education / Kathleen P. King and Victor C.X. Wang; title: Comparing the Russian, the Sloyd, and the arts and crafts movement training systems / Victor C.X. Wang and Carol Koerner Redhead; title: Perspectives of a healthy work ethic in a 21st-century international community / Gregory C. Petty and Ernest W. Brewer; title: Framing strategic partnerships guided by adult learning: bridging the education gap with CTE / Kathleen P. King; title: Training in China / Victor C.X. Wang; title: Reforms in education and training curriculum as a strategic approach to workforce development competencies in Kenya / Fredrick Muyia Nafukho; title: Workforce competencies: a comparison of U.S. and Jamaican experiences / Henry O. Lawrence; title: Teaching philosophies of Chinese career and technical instructors and U.S. career and technical instructors / Victor C.X. Wang; title: Australia's vocational education and training / Kisilu Kitainge.