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   Advancing Life Projects: South African Students Expla in Why They Come to FET Coll eges  
   
نویسنده Powell Lesley ,McGrath Simon
منبع journal of international and comparative education - 2014 - دوره : 3 - شماره : 2 - صفحه:213 -226
چکیده    Vocational education and training (vet) policy in south africa is based on a narrow set of assumptions regarding the identity of learners and the reasons that they are in public further education and training (fet) colleges. these assumptions reflect an international orthodoxy about the centrality of employability that is located within what giddens (1994) has described as “productivism”, a view that reduces life to the economic sphere. through exploring the stories of a group of south african public fet college learners’ regarding their reasons for choosing fet colleges, this paper shows that vet is valued by these students for a range of reasons. these include preparation for the world of work, but also a desire to improve their ability to contribute to their communities and families; raise their self-esteem; and expand their future life possibilities. thus, the paper advances the largely hitherto theoretical critique of productivist vet accounts by offering empirical evidence of counter-narratives
کلیدواژه Vocational Education and Training ,South Africa ,Further Education and Training colleges ,employability
آدرس University of Nottingham, UK, University of Nottingham, UK
 
     
   
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