Pre-vocational Education in Germany and China

A Comparison of Curricula and Its Implications
2013
ISBN: 978-3-531-19439-4
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2604 g

The school-to-work transition has been an important topic in the fields of education and sociology research in the past few years. Pre-vocational education, which takes place during lower-secondary school and aims to facilitate the school-to-work transition, is of critical significance in introducing the participants to the world of work and/or in preparing them for entry into further vocational education programs.

With a strong comparative nature, Jun Li presents this systematic investigation of the pre-vocational education in Germany and China and analyzes their curricula of pre-vocational education. By combining the methods of content analysis and teacher interview, the author offers an in-depth perspective into the realms of pre-vocational education and reveals the divergences between the prescribed curriculum and the enacted curriculum. The findings also relate closely to an intensively discussed issue in the sociology of education in the past few years, namely the issueof knowledge and its status, function and forms in the school education today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Jun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wirtschaftspädagogik, Berufspädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Institutional and Historical Context.- Curriculum Analysis: Theory, Criteria and Findings.- Teacher Interview.- Analysis of the Overall Results and Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Jun Li is a teacher and researcher at the Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.