Technical education and the state since 1850 : historical and contemporary perspectives
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Technical education and the state since 1850 : historical and contemporary perspectives
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book grew out of a conference on Education and the Labour Market held at Lancaster University in April 1987. This collection of essays is composed of some of the papers given at the conference and others added later covering the historical aspects of the subject. The contributors suggest that by looking at the history of technical education in this country it may be possible to suggest the role it has played in economic and social development and its limitations. They examine aspects of the development of technical education as it occurred at different times and in various institutional and non-institutional forms since the 1850s. The book examines three broad assumptions about British technical education: that it has been deficient; that its inadequacy is one of the keys to Britain's relative economic decline; and that its redirection is an appropriate task for the state to undertake. A common theme running through the book is that official resistance to giving technical education the same status and resources as liberal education has been damaging to its development and to the status of the professional technologist.
The book is intended to be of interest to educationalists, social and educational historians, political scientists, sociologists and political analysts.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - technical education, the state and the labour market, Penny Summerfield and Eric Evans
- the transmission of collective knowledge - apprenticeship in engineering and shipbuilding, 1850-1914, Keith McClelland
- technical education and the transformation of Coventry's industrial economy, 1900-1939, David Thoms
- the subordination of technical education in secondary schooling, 1870-1914, Meriel Vlaeminke
- technical and vocational education for girls - a study of the central schools of London, 1918-1939, Sarah King
- technical education and secondary schooling, 1905-1945, Bill Bailey
- technology, institutions and status - technological education, debate and policy, 1944-1955, Martin Davis
- higher education and employment - pressures and responses since 1960, Oliver Fulton
- control and influence - recent government policy on technical and vocational education in British education, Murray Saunders
- learning lessons from abroad, Ian Bliss and Jim Garbett.
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