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Vocational education sits uncomfortably between viewpoints between which there are deep philosophical schisms. On one side have been liberal educators (e.g. Leavis, 1943), on the other instrumental trainers to whom training is the set of “formal procedures which a company utilizes to facilitate learning so that the resultant behaviour contributes to the attainment of the company’s goals and objectives” (McGehee & Thayer, 1961). Within this debate, training is of groups or, less often, individuals, for the employer; education is of the individual for the individual.
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Brown, S. (1993). Design of Vocational Education Systems: A Systems Science Contribution to the “Competences” Debates. In: Stowell, F.A., West, D., Howell, J.G. (eds) Systems Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2862-3_39
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