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School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 4/e
Stephen E. Tozer, The University of Illinois, Chicago
Paul C. Violas
Guy Senese, Northern Arizona University
Social Diversity and Differentiated Schooling Today: Vocational and Liberal Ideals

SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENTIATED SCHOOLING TODAY: VOCATIONAL AND LIBERAL IDEALS


Introduction: The Purposes of Schooling

Vocational Education in Historical Perspective

  • Prior to Perkins: Vocational Education in the 1970s and 1980s
  • The Decline of Enrollment in Vocational Programs
  • Community Colleges and Vocational Education
  • The Perkins Act Amendments of 1990

The Future of the Workplace

  • Future Jobs
  • Educating for the Workplace
  • Income and Benefits
  • Work and the Quality of Life

Vocational Education as a Teaching Method

  • The Meaning of a Liberal Education
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Liberal Education in America

Concluding Remarks

Primary Source Reading: Getting Off Track: The Challenge and Potential of the Mixed Ability Classroom

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