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1. Vocational Education and the Arts Education: An Important Synergy.

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National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Berkeley, CA., Sterling, Carol, and Burke, Fred G.

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Courses in the arts should be part of the vocational curriculum. Not only is knowledge of the arts basic to what it means to be an educated person, but the way arts courses are taught also has a natural synergy with vocational education. Arts education naturally embraces methods that are characteristic of high-performance schools. For example, art departments often accept and evaluate students on the basis of portfolios and auditioned performances. In addition, coaching and assessing progress are done continuously in the midst of practice, performance, or critiques. Arts education can help prepare young people in vocational education to become tomorrow's employees and entrepreneurs. A postindustrial society increasingly requires that workers at all levels be creative thinkers, problem solvers, able to work well with others as well as independently, and arts education offers possibilities to complement and supplement training in these skills. The inclusion of arts in education can help to impart the knowledge, insights, and ways of learning that children need to become whole human beings and compete effectively in the world economy. (KC)

Published
1997

2. Career Education in The 1970's.

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Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. and Burke, Fred G.

Abstract

Statistics bear out the futility of the overemphasis of collegiate preparation at the elementary and secondary levels. To meet the challenge of relevance and utility, the role of formal vocational training has enjoyed increasing attention within the educational system in the past decade. Yet even with this, half of our nation's students are not being prepared for further education, for training, or for employment. A major revision in the educational delivery system is needed. In Rhode Island this is being approached at two levels, the preschool through Grade 12 level and the postsecondary and adult continuing education level. A task force has been created to study the postsecondary programs and services and to make recommendations for the development of an open university system. At the preschool through Grade 12 level, a program is being launched to develop the career education concept as the central theme of elementary and secondary education. The purpose of this State project is to test the theory that a career-oriented program is superior to the traditional orientation and to determine which components or techniques are most effective. Included in this accession are two additional papers, one outlining the development and evaluation components of the State career education project and the other further discussing this project under the title "Career Decision Making as the Focus of a K-12 Curriculum". (MF)

Published
1972

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