Liberalizing Vocational Study von Emery J. Hyslop-Margison

This book addresses a critically important question regarding human capital learning in our present neo-liberal schooling context: How can contemporary career education programs be integrated into public school curricula without impacting negatively on the liberal learning, intellectual autonomy, and democratic citizenship of students? Using Aristotelian and Deweyan approaches to career education, this new work argues for a new approach to vocational education that is both liberal and democratic in nature.

Emery J. Hyslop-Margison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University. Professor Hyslop-Margison holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory and Implementation from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. He received his M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, N.B., and holds an M.A. in Philosophy from Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.