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Bijlsma, Nienke; Schaap, Harmen; de Bruijn, Elly – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Meaning-making and sense-making are generally assumed to be part of students' personal vocational knowledge development, since they contribute to both students' socialisation in a vocation and students' personalisation of concepts, values and beliefs regarding that vocation. However, how students in vocational education acquire meaning and make…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Academic Achievement, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning
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Su, Mengwei; Harrison, Laura M. – Journal of International Students, 2016
Using academic capitalism as a theoretical foundation, this phenomenological study examined the new study abroad experiences of Chinese college students in six popular English-speaking study destination countries--the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Qualitative data collected from 20 interviews indicate some…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Experience, Asians, Foreign Students
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Schaap, H.; Van der Schaaf, M. F.; de Bruijn, E. – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
Students in competence-based senior secondary vocational education are expected to actively construct personal knowledge during school-based learning and workplace learning. This study introduces the construct "personal professional theory" (PPT) to monitor and analyse students' personal knowledge development. It aims to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Competency Based Education, Vocational Education
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Volman, Monique; Dam, Geert ten – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article discusses the way in which social identities structure the learning processes of students in two subjects in the Dutch secondary school curriculum--Care and Technology. It analyses interviews with 23 students and their teachers with a view to explaining the disappointing results in these subjects in terms of breaking through gender…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Secondary School Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Technology Education