New learning, New Youth? Policy, Literacy, and the Subjects of Reform in Risk Society

摘要: Vocational education in the United States, now called Career and Technical Education (CTE), offers an option for youth a climate increasingly focused upon particular versions of college-prep coursework as condition high school graduation. For those students with specific work interests or who struggle to connect conventional approaches academic study, having learn hands-on, career-focused environment often sustains connection school. It can represent viable route towards graduation, labor market entry, further (DeLuca, Plank & Estacion, 2006). Yet CTE has long been embedded secondary low-status track, accorded less value than track frequently assigned much selected by them, historically based on gender, class, ethnoracial biases.