Rethinking education-work relationships

Leonardo SPES-NET. Final report, section 3, introductory paper January 2000

Fernando Marhuenda Fluixà
Departament de Didàctica i Organització Escolar
Universitat de València (Spain)

 

 

It is characteristic of nowadays that, the broader the intellectual scope of mankind is, the more its practical powers are developed, when most needed is for our species the syntehsis between science and production, knowing and acting, hand and head, ... the more separate they are from the point of view of individual experience.

Fernández Enguita, 1990, 189.

Abstract.

In this paper I try to offer different perspectives upon which to approach the conflicting notions regarding the relationships between work and education. I start by showing some of the topics as well as the difficulties surrounding such an issue, and contextualizing them in the context of the SPES-NET discussions. From here, I introduce the papers in this section of the final report as well as refer to certain parts of the previous section. Following this I try to establish some points upon which to define the notions of work and education, contextualizing them in the VET debates. These are then revisited once more in order to offer some questions to which researchers in VET should pay more attention than they have up to now. The paper concludes with some ideas to establish a new agenda on this issues.

 

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