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Reformed and reduced: Vocational education and structural oppression
Power and Education Pub Date : 2020-10-22 , DOI: 10.1177/1757743820967027
Teressa Schmidt 1
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Internationally, vocational education and training (VET) is intended to fulfil important economic and social objectives. There is, however, a concerning discourse relating to funding, esteem, reputation and quality, and questions have been raised about whether social mobility aspirations of the sector’s students are achieved or achievable. This paper argues that rather than resulting from deficiency or fault of VET, these issues are, instead, manifestations of the sector’s structural oppression. Further, unless this oppression is recognised and addressed as an underlying cause, VET’s troubles will remain. While acknowledging the claim may be contentious, the paper applies Freirean philosophy and contemporary critical social theory to examine the case of Australian VET, identifying the oppressive structures and policies which have progressively rendered the sector powerless and lacking the autonomy needed to enact positive and necessary change. It expounds upon Australian VET’s vulnerability to neoliberal educational reform along with the impact of competency based education and training (CBE/T), its reductionist curriculum, and the de-professionalisation of VET, its teachers and the vocations it serves, before proposing that any further reforms must be led from within the sector itself. While the paper focuses on Australian VET, its examination will likely hold meaning elsewhere.



中文翻译:

改革和减少:职业教育和结构性压迫

在国际上,职业教育和培训(VET)旨在实现重要的经济和社会目标。然而,关于资金,自尊,声誉和质量的讨论颇为令人关注,并且有人质疑该部门学生的社会流动性愿望是否实现或可以实现。本文认为,这些问题不是由职业教育与培训的不足或过失引起的,而是行业部门结构性压迫的表现。此外,除非这种压迫被公认并解决为根本原因,否则,VET的麻烦将依然存在。尽管承认这一说法可能存在争议,但本文还是运用了Freirean哲学和当代批判性社会理论来考察澳大利亚职业教育与培训的情况,确定导致该部门无能为力并且缺乏实施积极而必要的变革所需的自主权的压迫性结构和政策。它提出了澳大利亚职业教育与培训对新自由主义教育改革的脆弱性,以及基于能力的教育和培训(CBE / T),其还原主义课程以及职业教育与培训及其教师和所服务职业的去专业化的影响,然后提出了任何建议。必须从部门内部进行进一步的改革。尽管本文重点关注澳大利亚职业教育与培训,但其审查可能会在其他地方具有意义。它提出了澳大利亚职业教育与培训对新自由主义教育改革的脆弱性,以及基于能力的教育和培训(CBE / T),其还原主义课程以及职业教育与培训及其教师和所服务职业的去专业化的影响,然后提出了任何建议。必须从部门内部进行进一步的改革。尽管本文重点关注澳大利亚职业教育与培训,但其审查可能会在其他地方具有意义。它提出了澳大利亚职业教育与培训对新自由主义教育改革的脆弱性,以及基于能力的教育和培训(CBE / T),其还原主义课程以及职业教育与培训及其教师和所服务职业的去专业化的影响,然后提出了任何建议。必须从部门内部进行进一步的改革。尽管本文重点关注澳大利亚职业教育与培训,但其考试可能在其他地方具有意义。

更新日期:2020-10-22
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