Whatever happened to TVEI

TVEI, curriculum and schooling

Bibliographic Data

ID11488397
AuthorsDenis Gleeson (Keele University, corresponding author), Monica Mclean (Keele University)
Year1994
Volume9
Issue3
Pages233-244
Publication date1994-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Education Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0268093940090304
OpenAlexW2031692262
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

This paper analyses some of the policy‐practice lessons learned from the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative as its influence comes to an end. Historically, perhaps, TVEI will be remembered as a moment in education policy and practice, characterizing the transitional phase from local to central determination of the curriculum. This paper considers how TVEI affected the culture of teaching, learning and curriculum in ways unintended and not envisaged at the time by teachers, schools, LEAs, unions and government. It argues, however, that if TVEI radically embodied crucial changes going on in British society its influence has been limited. The fact that there has been resistance and opposition to the straitjacket of the National Curriculum and testing nevertheless suggests that there is a critical lesson to learn from TVEI: namely, that education policy which fails to engage with the culture of the school, college and teaching profession is unlikely to achieve meaningful reform

Curriculum · Curriculum development · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Opposition (politics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Vocational education · Education Systems and Policy · Higher Education Learning Practices · Law · Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies · Public Administration