This book identifies the achievements and limitations of successive European policy reforms and addresses future challenges in relation to work experience. It describes a new analytical tool - a typology for conceptualising different models of work experience in terms of learning, rather than...

This book examines ways in which professional and vocational education and training can contribute towards building the emerging 'knowledge society'. In particular, it explores ways in which education and training can support the generation of the 'action-oriented' and social knowledge that...

The key contribution which career guidance can make to the achievement of four public policy goals - lifelong learning, social inclusion, labour market efficiency and economic development - is increasingly widely acknowledged both within Europe and internationally. Such public policy goals are...