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Tiêu đề
Liberal and vocational education: the Gordian encounter
Tác giả
Burns C.J.; Natale S.M.
Năm xuất bản
2020
Source title
Education and Training
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
10.1108/ET-03-2020-0064
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how liberal higher education can strengthen vocational higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses Shay's (2013) framework of curriculum differentiation to articulate how the strengths and shortcomings of liberal education differ from those of vocational education and to allow the differences highlighted to inform a resolution to each other's shortcomings. Findings: There is nothing new in the findings that liberal education differs from vocational education and that both have shortcomings. What the paper presents is a viewpoint that the differences are not confirmation that these two approaches to education are in opposition but rather that they complement each other. The strength of one is the weakness of the other. Originality/value: The perspective taken in this paper is developed using the language of semantic density (SD) and semantic gravity (SG). Using Shay's semantic field of recontextualized knowledge, this paper suggests that liberal and vocational education inhabit two sides of contexts and concepts continua. The paper further proposes that both are alike in a meaningful way because both have unsuccessfully managed the role of context in their curricula. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Từ khóa
Curriculum; Liberal arts; Liberal education; Professional education; Vocational education
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