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Hudson 1996
Citation Text:
Hudson, G. (1996) Dealing with Work: secondary students' work experience and the curriculum Journal of Vocational Education and Training Vol. 48:3.Editorial Comment:
Focus
The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) was introduced as a major programme in the United Kingdom that would relate secondary schools' curricula to the 'world of work'. Since its launch in 1984 TVEI has developed and taken on many forms but one of its continuing universal elements has been the requirement that secondary school students' should have some form of work experience. Although TVEI has been much evaluated and researched little attention has been paid to how students' work experience is perceived to be of educational value and used by their teachers. The research described in this paper is an examination of how students' work experience was managed and used in a sample of secondary schools.
Findings
The paper argues that what students learn from work experience is held to be of no value in terms of the formal curriculum. However, teachers in the school sample do consider work experience as adding value by the social development of students who are of average or below average academic ability.