Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada: Principles and Practices of Alternation Education and Training

by Hans G. Schuetze, Robert Sweet

Overview

The concept of "alternation" refers to the combination of classroom- based cognitive learning and workplace-based experiential learning and can be found in a variety of settings, including apprenticeship programs, career preparation and co-operative education, and work- experience schemes for high school students. After presenting three papers that comparatively examine different alternation models in use in Germany, Quebec, and other areas of Canada, Schuetze (higher education, U. of British Columbia, Canada) and Sweet (education, Lakehead U., Canada) provide a series of case studies that look at Canadian alternation programs at high school, college, university, and workplace levels. Distributed in the US by Cornell U. Press Services. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773524545
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	04/26/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

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Table of Contents

	Tables and Figures	vii
	Contributors	ix
	Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada: An Introduction to Alternation Education Concepts and Issues	3
Part 1	A Comparison of Alternation Models and Jurisdictions
1	The Restructuring of Work and the Modernization of Vocational Training in Germany	25
2	Toward a Regional Approach to Alternation Education and Training: The Case of Quebec	44
3	Alternation Education and Training in Canada	66
Part 2	Alternation in Canada: School, College, University, and Workplace
	School
4	Vocational Education in Ontario Secondary Schools: Past, Present--and Future?	95
5	More than Sorcery Required: The Challenge of Matching Education and Skills for Life and Work	113
6	School-Workplace Collaboration, An Uneasy Partnership: Experiences from Two Alternation Programs in Quebec	135
	College
7	Canada's Community Colleges and Alternation	156
	University
8	Alternating Education and Training: Students' Conceptions of Learning in Co-op	175
9	Alternation Career Paths for Teachers: Reconceptualizing Alliances	197
10	Bridging the Gap between Liberal and Applied Education	217
	Workplace
11	Apprenticeship in Canada: A Training System under Siege?	243
12	Women and Apprenticeships: The Role of Personal Agency in Transition Success	260
13	New Policy and Research Directions	276
	Index	287