Theodore Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3426-3744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Validating Teacher Performativity through Lifelong School-University Collaboration
The main point of this article is that more credence should be given in teacher education to performative dimensions of teaching. I agree with David Carr (1999) that the requisite capabilities are probably best learned in actual schools. I employ Turnbull’s (2000) conception of performativity, which speaks of tacit cultural learning. Following Wilfred Carr (1987) I go back to Aristotle, and to debate between Gadamer and Habermas, before arriving …
Towards a model for research on the effects of school organizational health factors on primary school performance in Trinidad & Tobago
Exploring the global/local boundary in education in developing countries
This article focuses on education in developing countries in the context of globalization and with specific reference to the Caribbean. It examines the concept of globalization and related concepts and positions developing countries within this context. It explores the possibility of the creation of a third space where the local and the global can co-mingle and new understandings can emerge. The article argues that although the global/local inter…
Creating research culture in Caribbean universities
Towards reclaiming the high ground in the discourse on vocationalism in developing countries
Social Inequality in Education
Countries everywhere are turning to education in the quest for competitive edge in the global economy. How to attain the high skills needed in new reformed workplaces is a preoccupation that can be observed across developed countries. In this widening discourse of high skills and competitiveness, the U.S. skills production model is being seen as undesirable because it is perceived to be premised upon educational inequality and skills polarization…
The problem of cultural fit—what can we learn from borrowing the German Dual System
Culture impedes educational transactions between developed countries, and is often an area of tension when developing countries try to borrow models, or have models imposed upon them. This article uses the German Dual System as a case for examining issues surrounding the adaptation of borrowed models. Since attempts at borrowing models can fail for cultural as well as non‐cultural reasons, a contention here is that culture needs to be unpacked an…
Tracking, Expectations, and the Transformation of Vocational Education
Vocational education has a long history of association with differentiated curricula in the American high school. But within the last two decades there has been a movement for curriculum change—a new vocationalism—that has sought to draw the subject closer to the dominant academic mainstream. This study of high school principals ($$n=665$$) explored whether the new shift in curriculum thinking is being accompanied by changes in how students are a…
At the Interface of School and Work
Journal Article At the Interface of School and Work Get access Theodore Lewis Theodore Lewis Correspondence: Theodore Lewis, Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 39, Issue 3, August 2005, Pages 421–441, https://doi.org/10.111…
La cité d'Ougarit sur le tell de Ras Shamra. Marguerite Yon
Official Knowledge and Vocationalism
Vocational Education as General Education
It is argued that vocational education belongs in the common core of school knowledge. Distinction is made between vocational education for jobs and vocational education about work. It is the latter aspect of the subject that allows the general education claim to be made. The former aspect, it is argued, belongs beyond the secondary school. The resilience of the liberal/vocational divide is reflected upon. So is the "new vocationalism," which see…
The Transition from School to Work
This article takes the passage of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 as the starting point for a conversation about the readiness of the United States for a structured school-to-work transition system. It examines evidence and issues pertaining to the youth labor market and the need to ensure that an economic imperative does not supersede democratic principles of schooling in visioning the beyond-school experiences of students
America's Choice
With investment in human capital an urgent economic imperative in America's quest for competitiveness, policymakers and analysts have focused on the bottom half of the labor force. In doing so their vision of literacy has been constricted by workplace needs. The literacy discourse is framed in terms of what workplaces, not adults, need. The curriculum follows efficiency criteria, not straying from the workplace context. I argue that this view of …
America’s Choice
With investment in human capital an urgent economic imperative in America’s quest for competitiveness, policymakers and analysts have focused on the bottom half of the labor force. In doing so their vision of literacy has been constricted by workplace needs. The literacy discourse is framed in terms of what workplaces, not adults, need. The curriculum follows efficiency criteria, not straying from the workplace context. I argue that this view of …
Towards a Liberal Vocational Education
Journal Article Towards a Liberal Vocational Education Get access Theodore Lewis Theodore Lewis Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108 USA Correspondence: Theodore Lewis Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108 USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Rise and Decline of Job-Specific Vocationalism
(1995). Rise and Decline of Job-Specific Vocationalism: Response to Judith Little and Susan Threatt. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 293-306
Valid Knowledge and the Problem of Practical Arts Curricula
This article argues that the meager existence of practical arts subjects in the curriculum comes about as a result of the persistence of the Platonic ideal of what constitutes valid knowledge. To illustrate this basic argument, the article first reflects upon Plato's conception of valid knowledge, as set forth in the The Republic, then it examines the ebb and flow of discourse on the nature and worth of knowledge. In particular, the article exami…
Difficulties Attending the New Vocationalism in the USA
Vocational Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the United States
Difficulties Attending the New Vocationalism in the USA
The Transition from School to Work
This article takes the passage of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 as the starting point for a conversation about the readiness of the United States for a structured school-to-work transition system. It examines evidence and issues pertaining to the youth labor market and the need to ensure that an economic imperative does not supersede democratic principles of schooling in visioning the beyond-school experiences of students
Vocational Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the United States
Exploring the global/local boundary in education in developing countries
This article focuses on education in developing countries in the context of globalization and with specific reference to the Caribbean. It examines the concept of globalization and related concepts and positions developing countries within this context. It explores the possibility of the creation of a third space where the local and the global can co-mingle and new understandings can emerge. The article argues that although the global/local inter…
The problem of cultural fit—what can we learn from borrowing the German Dual System
Culture impedes educational transactions between developed countries, and is often an area of tension when developing countries try to borrow models, or have models imposed upon them. This article uses the German Dual System as a case for examining issues surrounding the adaptation of borrowed models. Since attempts at borrowing models can fail for cultural as well as non‐cultural reasons, a contention here is that culture needs to be unpacked an…
Towards a Liberal Vocational Education
Journal Article Towards a Liberal Vocational Education Get access Theodore Lewis Theodore Lewis Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108 USA Correspondence: Theodore Lewis Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108 USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Tracking, Expectations, and the Transformation of Vocational Education
Vocational education has a long history of association with differentiated curricula in the American high school. But within the last two decades there has been a movement for curriculum change—a new vocationalism—that has sought to draw the subject closer to the dominant academic mainstream. This study of high school principals ($$n=665$$) explored whether the new shift in curriculum thinking is being accompanied by changes in how students are a…
Vocational Education as General Education
It is argued that vocational education belongs in the common core of school knowledge. Distinction is made between vocational education for jobs and vocational education about work. It is the latter aspect of the subject that allows the general education claim to be made. The former aspect, it is argued, belongs beyond the secondary school. The resilience of the liberal/vocational divide is reflected upon. So is the "new vocationalism," which see…
Valid Knowledge and the Problem of Practical Arts Curricula
This article argues that the meager existence of practical arts subjects in the curriculum comes about as a result of the persistence of the Platonic ideal of what constitutes valid knowledge. To illustrate this basic argument, the article first reflects upon Plato's conception of valid knowledge, as set forth in the The Republic, then it examines the ebb and flow of discourse on the nature and worth of knowledge. In particular, the article exami…
Validating Teacher Performativity through Lifelong School-University Collaboration
The main point of this article is that more credence should be given in teacher education to performative dimensions of teaching. I agree with David Carr (1999) that the requisite capabilities are probably best learned in actual schools. I employ Turnbull’s (2000) conception of performativity, which speaks of tacit cultural learning. Following Wilfred Carr (1987) I go back to Aristotle, and to debate between Gadamer and Habermas, before arriving …
Towards reclaiming the high ground in the discourse on vocationalism in developing countries
At the Interface of School and Work
Journal Article At the Interface of School and Work Get access Theodore Lewis Theodore Lewis Correspondence: Theodore Lewis, Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 39, Issue 3, August 2005, Pages 421–441, https://doi.org/10.111…
Creating research culture in Caribbean universities
America’s Choice
With investment in human capital an urgent economic imperative in America’s quest for competitiveness, policymakers and analysts have focused on the bottom half of the labor force. In doing so their vision of literacy has been constricted by workplace needs. The literacy discourse is framed in terms of what workplaces, not adults, need. The curriculum follows efficiency criteria, not straying from the workplace context. I argue that this view of …
Vocational Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the United States
Difficulties Attending the New Vocationalism in the USA
Valid Knowledge and the Problem of Practical Arts Curricula
This article argues that the meager existence of practical arts subjects in the curriculum comes about as a result of the persistence of the Platonic ideal of what constitutes valid knowledge. To illustrate this basic argument, the article first reflects upon Plato's conception of valid knowledge, as set forth in the The Republic, then it examines the ebb and flow of discourse on the nature and worth of knowledge. In particular, the article exami…
Rise and Decline of Job-Specific Vocationalism
(1995). Rise and Decline of Job-Specific Vocationalism: Response to Judith Little and Susan Threatt. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 293-306
America's Choice
With investment in human capital an urgent economic imperative in America's quest for competitiveness, policymakers and analysts have focused on the bottom half of the labor force. In doing so their vision of literacy has been constricted by workplace needs. The literacy discourse is framed in terms of what workplaces, not adults, need. The curriculum follows efficiency criteria, not straying from the workplace context. I argue that this view of …
America’s Choice
With investment in human capital an urgent economic imperative in America’s quest for competitiveness, policymakers and analysts have focused on the bottom half of the labor force. In doing so their vision of literacy has been constricted by workplace needs. The literacy discourse is framed in terms of what workplaces, not adults, need. The curriculum follows efficiency criteria, not straying from the workplace context. I argue that this view of …
Towards a Liberal Vocational Education
Journal Article Towards a Liberal Vocational Education Get access Theodore Lewis Theodore Lewis Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108 USA Correspondence: Theodore Lewis Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108 USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Official Knowledge and Vocationalism
Vocational Education as General Education
It is argued that vocational education belongs in the common core of school knowledge. Distinction is made between vocational education for jobs and vocational education about work. It is the latter aspect of the subject that allows the general education claim to be made. The former aspect, it is argued, belongs beyond the secondary school. The resilience of the liberal/vocational divide is reflected upon. So is the "new vocationalism," which see…
The Transition from School to Work
This article takes the passage of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 as the starting point for a conversation about the readiness of the United States for a structured school-to-work transition system. It examines evidence and issues pertaining to the youth labor market and the need to ensure that an economic imperative does not supersede democratic principles of schooling in visioning the beyond-school experiences of students
La cité d'Ougarit sur le tell de Ras Shamra. Marguerite Yon
At the Interface of School and Work
Journal Article At the Interface of School and Work Get access Theodore Lewis Theodore Lewis Correspondence: Theodore Lewis, Department of Work, Community and Family Education, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 39, Issue 3, August 2005, Pages 421–441, https://doi.org/10.111…
Tracking, Expectations, and the Transformation of Vocational Education
Vocational education has a long history of association with differentiated curricula in the American high school. But within the last two decades there has been a movement for curriculum change—a new vocationalism—that has sought to draw the subject closer to the dominant academic mainstream. This study of high school principals ($$n=665$$) explored whether the new shift in curriculum thinking is being accompanied by changes in how students are a…
Social Inequality in Education
Countries everywhere are turning to education in the quest for competitive edge in the global economy. How to attain the high skills needed in new reformed workplaces is a preoccupation that can be observed across developed countries. In this widening discourse of high skills and competitiveness, the U.S. skills production model is being seen as undesirable because it is perceived to be premised upon educational inequality and skills polarization…
The problem of cultural fit—what can we learn from borrowing the German Dual System
Culture impedes educational transactions between developed countries, and is often an area of tension when developing countries try to borrow models, or have models imposed upon them. This article uses the German Dual System as a case for examining issues surrounding the adaptation of borrowed models. Since attempts at borrowing models can fail for cultural as well as non‐cultural reasons, a contention here is that culture needs to be unpacked an…
Creating research culture in Caribbean universities
Towards reclaiming the high ground in the discourse on vocationalism in developing countries
Towards a model for research on the effects of school organizational health factors on primary school performance in Trinidad & Tobago
Exploring the global/local boundary in education in developing countries
This article focuses on education in developing countries in the context of globalization and with specific reference to the Caribbean. It examines the concept of globalization and related concepts and positions developing countries within this context. It explores the possibility of the creation of a third space where the local and the global can co-mingle and new understandings can emerge. The article argues that although the global/local inter…
Validating Teacher Performativity through Lifelong School-University Collaboration
The main point of this article is that more credence should be given in teacher education to performative dimensions of teaching. I agree with David Carr (1999) that the requisite capabilities are probably best learned in actual schools. I employ Turnbull’s (2000) conception of performativity, which speaks of tacit cultural learning. Following Wilfred Carr (1987) I go back to Aristotle, and to debate between Gadamer and Habermas, before arriving …
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