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.
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