How Can the VET Sector Drive the Adoption of Sustainable Practices in Industry?

Autor/in	Kent, Jenny
Titel	How Can the VET Sector Drive the Adoption of Sustainable Practices in Industry?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 20 (2004) 1, S.89-99 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Technical Education; Career Education; Institutional Characteristics; Sustainable Development; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Industry; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Technikunterricht; Arbeitslehre; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Industrie; Australien
Abstract	Vocational education and training (VET) is often considered the enigma of education. For those that work in or research sustainable education within the schools and higher education sections, VET appears somewhat like the mysterious second cousin: often difficult to access and difficult to understand. VET differs quite markedly from the other education sectors. Its industry, skill and competency foci have been established through a distinct range of national and international drivers. Both the limited understanding of how VET operates and its institutional characteristics has bound the integration of sustainable education practices within the sector. This paper provides a brief overview of the VET sector within Australia and provides some insight into how sustainable education practices are being developed in VET. The recognition of elements of common ground between VET and sustainable education are proposed as an entree into the sector that can influence the adoption of sustainable practices by industry. (Contains 22 endnotes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australian Association for Environmental Education, Inc. P.O. Box 560, Bellingen, NSW 2454, Australia. Tel: +61-2-6655-1865; Fax: +61-2-6655-1596; e-mail: admin@aaee.org.au; Web site: http://www.aaee.org.au/publications/ajee.htm
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10