But who Will Let you do It? Counter-Hegemonic Possibilities for Work Education

Abstract

The implications of vocational education programs are examined through an investigation of educational work experience programs in Ontario. It is argued that work programs are not necessarily simply a means of reproducing existing social relationships and class structure, but provide the opportunity for a critical, counter-hegemonic pedagogy. The value of ethnographic investigation of such programs is argued as a source of both a theoretical analysis of schooling and an oppositional pedagogy.