Work and Education in America

Vocational education and training (VET) has never taken hold in the United States as it has in Europe. Up to today schools in the U.S. are coined as institutions for humanistic education without preparing young adults to function in specific occupations. Therefore, relatively little provision of qualification for skilled work is provided in cooperation with the industry. "Work and Education in the United States" provides an overview of vocational education in the United States for an international audience. The volume consists of twelve chapters reflecting primary pathways to learning and referring to multiple views on integration in the sectors of education and work to the extent to which they are interwoven. It showcases that vocational or career and technical education cannot successfully be pursued without their interconnectedness to academic learning, to different approaches towards workplace teaching and learning, and without including various people and their diverse ways of approaching work and education. The coverage of topics relates to benchmarks and theoretical discussions around VET, such as patricipation rates, career counselling, the multi-tiered VET system, the role and function of community colleges in American VET as well as issues of governance, quality management and evaluation.