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Varieties of Work-Based Higher Education: France, Germany and the United States Compared
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Lukas Graf; Anna P. Lohse; Nadine Bernhard – International Journal of Training and Development, 2024
In recent years, higher education systems worldwide have been marked by a considerable expansion of work-based higher education (WBHE), with the institutional spheres of academia, industry and state increasingly coming together. We take the case of WBHE to analyse institutional arrangements in the different skill formation systems of France,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Work Experience Programs, Foreign Countries, Program Development
Piano Teacher Education in Finland and Germany: Targeted Competencies and Respective Learning Environments of Two Cases
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Abankwa, Julia; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija – International Journal of Music Education, 2018
The investigation of targeted competencies and respective learning environments in two cases of piano teacher education aimed to identify themes for higher music education programme development. Application of the model of six instrumental/vocal music teacher roles resulted in the conceptual understanding of these roles in four permeable spheres…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Musical Instruments
Promoting the Occupational Well-Being of Teachers for the Comenius Program
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Saaranen, Terhi; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Ryhänen, Eva; Turunen, Hannele – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports the development and results of a project within the Comenius program to promote teachers' occupational well-being, in which Finnish, Irish, Italian, and German school communities participated between 2003 and 2006. The project made use of participatory action research, in which the occupational well-being of staff was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Programs, Teachers, Job Satisfaction
Innovative Methods for Promoting and Assessing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education
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Hiller, Gundula Gwenn – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
This paper presents an intercultural training program that was developed by the Center for Intercultural Learning at the European University Viadrina in cooperation with students. A few of the student-generated activities will be described in detail. The program, aimed at enabling students to acquire intercultural competence, was developed at an…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Exchange Internships with Germany: How It Can Be Done.
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Hiebert, Willard – 1994
A member of the faculty of Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) recounts his experience with developing local internship opportunities for German business students in exchange for internship opportunities in Germany for his international business students. The faculty member had to develop a list of potential companies, in an area of small to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, German
Learning through Labour. Training, Unemployment and the State 1890-1939. Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.
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Field, John – 1992
This book presents the results of a study of the British work camps that were initiated in the 1920s as a result of the political need to reduce unemployment among ex-servicemen and that evolved in 1929 into a national system of residential centers to "recondition" long-term unemployed men by exposing them to hard physical labor. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational History, Educational Policy