A topic of choice that demonstrates the synthesis of knowledge gained and your perspective on the social, cultural, historical, and political dimensions of public school education, giving particular emphasis to student population dynamics as they have impacted classroom environments over time.

1. Vocational Education:
Crafts and Culture

2. K. Peter Kuchinke
“Education for Work: A Review Essay of Historical, Cross-
Cultural, and Disciplinary Perspectives on Vocational
Education”
“Preparation for a „useful life‟” (Kuchinke, 2005)
“The path not taken by the United States
(Kuchinke, 2005)

3. Knowledge
 Gilbert Ryle
 Declarative Knowledge
 Practical Knowledge
 Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), found internationally
 US “College for all policy” (Kuchinke , 2005)

4. New Vocationalism
 Training for specific occupational careers found in
community colleges
 Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 (Kuchinke, 2005)
 Prosser and Snedden versus Dewey
 “…the United States stands alone with its policy of
college preparation for all and its neglect of
meaningful integration of work into education”
(Kuchinke, 2005)

5. More Acronyms
 Career and Technical Education (CTE)
 Vocational Education and Training (VET)
 VET is a way to prevent students from falling through
the cracks, not simply advancing them further
(Kuchinke, 2005).
 Retention versus career preparation

6. Cooperation
 Employers must contribute to demands of education
 Work is more inclusive and broader than the term,
employment.
 Expertise = moral agency
 Expertise is practical engagement
 Educational Theory

7. From Schooling America
 Pestalozzi and Montessori
 Sloyd (handiwork)