Full Description
With a broadened purpose in academic preparation and greater commitment to promoting a wide range of career choices, "new vocationalism" in community colleges plays an increasingly prominent role in the new economy. This volume provides valued perspectives from practitioners on these emerging vocation education programs, both in terms of theory and practice, and highlights intriguing changes in the field. Chapters analyze the role of community college leaders in developing programs, successful partnerships and collaboration with communities, work-based learning, changes in perception of terminal education and transfer education, changing instructional practices for changing student populations and the integration of vocational education into the broader agenda of American higher education. This is the 115th journal in the Jossey-Bass series "New Directions for Community Colleges".
Contents
EDITOR'S NOTES (Debra D. Bragg). 1. Opportunities and Challenges for the New Vocationalism (Debra D. Bragg). 2. The Role of Leadership in Successful Vocational Initiatives (Michael D. Summers). 3. From Isolation to Integration: Postsecondary Vocational Education and Emerging Systems of Workforce Development (W. Norton Grubb). 4. Community Colleges and Their Communities: Collaboration for Workforce Development (Margaret Terry Orr). 5. Two--Year Colleges and Tech Prep Partnerships: A Texas Perspective(Carrie H. Brown). 6. Blurring the Lines: Transforming Terminal Education to Transfer Education (Barbara K. Townsend). 7. Work--Based Learning: Finding a New Niche (George H. Johnston). 8. Learner--Centered Instructional Practices Supporting the New Vocationalism (Donna E. Dare). 9. Community Colleges and the Workforce Investment Act: Promises and Problems of the New Vocationalism (James Jacobs). 10. Sources and Information: Postsecondary Vocational Education (Jung--sup Yoo). INDEX.
