Work Experience in Secondary Schools

Work Experience in Secondary Schools

Author: John Eggleston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0429839952

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Work experience schemes were becoming an ever more central part of the curriculum in secondary schools in the early 1980s; indeed, ‘work’ had become a new subject in many. Fundamental changes in the nature of work and in its distribution and availability for school leavers made it particularly important that young people had experience of the kinds of work that may have awaited them in the outside world. A wide range of schemes were developed to meet this need, including work study, simulation, link courses and pairing. Yet schools and their teachers found it difficult to obtain information about these schemes and their results. This book, originally published in 1982, solved the problem by bringing together accounts from Britain, Australia, Ireland and the USSR, with an extended editorial introduction which examines both the reasons for providing work experience in schools and the underlying social economic issues.


Bulletin

Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13:

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Rethinking Work Experience

Rethinking Work Experience

Author: Andrew Miller

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781850008958

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An overview of organizational and curricular development in work experience in the UK in recent years, which draws on the involvement of the authors at national level in consultancy with the DES, NCC, DTI, DoE and many LEAs concerning the role of work experience in the school curriculum.


Activities for Teaching Citizenship in Secondary Schools

Activities for Teaching Citizenship in Secondary Schools

Author: Baker, Patricia

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1135378495

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A resource for teachers wishing to develop citizenship in their teaching activities. It provides activities for use in teaching, and includes lesson plans, photocopiable work sheets and guides to further resources.


Understanding Employer Engagement in Education

Understanding Employer Engagement in Education

Author: Anthony Mann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317701046

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This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (eg, work experience, internships, careers education, workplace visits, mentoring, enterprise education etc) influences the experiences and outcomes of the broad range of young people across mainstream academic learning programmes. The essays explore the different ways in which education can support or constrain social mobility and, in particular, how employer engagement in education can have significant impact upon social mobility – both positive and negative. Leading international contributors examine issues surrounding employer engagement and social mobility: conceptualisations of employer engagement; trends in social mobility; employer engagement and social class; access and management of work experience; social capital and aspiration; access to employment. The book makes employer engagement an innovative focus in relation to the well established fields of social mobility and school to work transition. By examining what difference employer engagement makes, the essays raise questions about conventional models and show how research drawing on different fields and disciplines can be brought together to provide a more coherent and convincing account. Building on new theorisations and combining existing and new data, the collection offers a systematic exploration of the influence of socio-economic status on school-to-work transitions, and addresses how educational policy can shape more efficient labour market outcomes. In doing so, it draws on, and speaks to, existing literature which has considered such questions from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity and social disadvantage.