Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited

The book 'Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited' edited by JonLauglo and Rupert Maclean revisits the debate of secondary education vocationalisation.It presents overviews and five case studies on the debate, dealing,?among other things, with the relative success of implementing vocational curricula,attendant implications and lessons. Problems of poor quality of vocationalteachers, financing, lack of equipment, lack of links to the world of work, andlack of articulation with further education and training dogged vocationalisationof secondary education. Reconceptualizing the curriculum in order to have aconvergence of general and vocational education is suggested. Vocationalisedcurriculum had positive benefits where there was economic growth