The Fate of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative in a Pilot School: a longitudinal case study

Abstract

This paper arises out of wider Economic and Social Research Council funded research on the legacy of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative(TVEI) in a national sample of original pilot schools. It describes and analyses the development of TVEI in one school over the period 1983-91 and draws on field-work at the school in 1986 and 1991. The development and demise of a radical cross-curricular course are explained. It is argued that the particular fate of the innovation was the result of the interplay between a range of system level, local 'market' and in-school factors.

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“…Cross-curriculum involving higher order thinking. These are the kinds of activities that many educators have long considered provide stimulating learning environments (Dewey, 1916;Williams & Yeomans, 1993;Adey & Shayer, 1994;Williams, 1999).…”

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