School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production (UNEVOC, 1998, 64 p.): 3. Conclusions and Guidelines: (introduction...)

School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production (UNEVOC, 1998, 64 p.)

3. Conclusions and Guidelines

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		3.1 Rough typology of school enterprises
		3.2 Structures of school enterprises
		3.3 Organisation of learning
		3.4 Competency profile, learning outcomes and learning goals
		3.5 Curricular processes
		3.6 Teaching staff
		3.7 Regulatory framework of school enterprises
		3.8 External relations
		3.9 Impact of school enterprises
		3.10 Financial options for school enterprises
		3.11 Mixes of private and public roles
		3.12 Factors that may enhance school enterprises

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Several approaches of combining learning with market production have come to exist side by side within a country. Many programmes have had to be reconsidered within the framework of a diversified secondary education. There is also evidence of a situation whereby various traditions and orientations come together and evolve into a new approach. Reconsideration in light of changing needs and resource availability is an inevitable and ongoing part of the process of educational change. The diversity of school enterprises in the context of a single country is indicative of the freedom that now exists for schools to develop their own initiatives, and of the status and importance of school enterprise concepts in schools.

This section presents conclusions and guidelines drawn from the case studies on school enterprises. The issues to be discussed include the organisational form of school enterprises, their learning organisation, learning outcomes, support infrastructure, curricular processes, integration of production processes in the curricula, teaching staff, external relations, the economic and social impact of school enterprises, the regulatory framework, financial options for school enterprises, and the role of state and non-governmental agencies in the management and financing of school enterprises.