Turning Eastside Kids Into Westside Kids: Employability Skills in the British Columbia Career and Personal Planning Curriculum
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v43i2.52307Abstract
This paper critically examines employability skills in the Career and Personal Planning Curriculum (CAPP) that existed in four Vancouver, British Columbia schools from 1995-2004. With corporate involvement in school curriculum on the rise through programs like the Conference Board of Canada's Employability Skills Profile, it is increasingly important for educators to examine the larger role that employer based skills are playing in career education curricula. This paper examines how the corporatized CAPP curriculum influenced the ways in which teachers taught about work and employment skills in their career education classrooms and highlights an important tension whereby students were taught differently based on perceptions of social class. This study reveals that there was an important class distinction to how employability skills are presented to students.
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