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  title info:
    title: Vocational education and training for a global economy
    sub title: lessons from four countries
  name:
    name part: Tucker, Marc S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy investigates the greatly varying ways in which four countries, Singapore, Switzerland, China and the United States, prepare young people for the twenty-first century workplace. The book looks first at the highly successful vocational education and training (VET) systems in Singapore and Switzerland, describing them in revealing detail and accounting for the assumptions and social arrangements that account for their unique features. It then turns to the two largest, and arguably the most dynamic, nations in the world, China and the United States, and examines the differing conditions, goals and arrangements that have affected their respective programs for preparing their citizens for present and future work. At a time when a highly competitive global economy is prompting profound changes in the workplace and in the skills required for professional success, all countries feel a heightened sense of urgency in finding ways to guide and prepare young people for work. As this book makes clear, however, the resulting preparatory systems within these four countries differ dramatically, and for a wide range of economic, cultural and political reasons. A detailed and incisive look at VET systems in the United States and abroad, Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy will be indispensable reading for all who are concerned with preparing youth for today's competitive and demanding modern workplace.
  table of contents: Introduction: The vocational education and training system you need depends on the kind of economy you want / Marc S. Tucker -- The phoenix: vocational education and training in Singapore / Marc S. Tucker -- Gold standard: the Swiss vocational education and training system / Nancy Hoffman and Robert B. Schwartz -- Made in China: challenge and innovation in China's vocational education and training system / Vivien Stewart -- The evolution of career and technical education in the United States / Robert B. Schwartz and Nancy Hoffman -- The future of VET in a global, AI-powered economy / Marc S. Tucker.
  note: edited by Marc S. Tucker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
    geographic: Singapore
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
    geographic: Switzerland
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
    geographic: United States
  classification: LC1043 .V616 2019
  classification: 370.113095957
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Work and learning series
  identifier: 9781682533895
  identifier: 1682533891
  identifier: 9781682533901
  identifier: 1682533905
  identifier: 2019019328
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190419
    record change date: 20200117104311.0
    record identifier: in00004154893