An Application of Basil Bernstein to Vocational Education and Training Policy in Australia
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Elements of the work of Basil Bernstein’s (Bernstein, 1996, 2000) are used in this paper to analyse the national structure and policy of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. The analysis is part of work towards a Doctor of Education degree at Monash University which aims to investigate the impact of online technology on the teaching practice of teachers employed in Technical and Further Education (TAFE). The constructs of classification and framing are found to be useful in identifying consistencies and inconsistencies in the ways that the prevailing pedagogic device manifests itself in national structures and policy. The analysis reveals that policy intends to influence the distributive and evaluation rules of VET, that the official pedagogic discourse of VET is dominated by industry, and training for work. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the work reported here is intended to underpin the Doctoral studies.
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