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Toiviainen, Hanna; Kersh, Natasha; Hyytiä, Jaakko – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
The recent debate on active citizenship and adult education has been strongly underpinned by the discussion on how active citizenship could be exercised in a way that would promote inclusion and participation. The paper focuses on the role of adult educators in encouraging young adults in vulnerable life situations to become active citizens…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adult Educators, Teacher Role, At Risk Persons
Singh, Madhu – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This book deals with the relevance of recognition, validation and accreditation (RVA) of non-formal and informal learning in education and training, the workplace and society. It examines RVA's strategic policy objectives and best practice features as well as the challenges faced and ways forward as reported by Member States. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Vocational Education, Global Approach
Jones, Paul; Miller, Christopher; Pickernell, David; Packham, Gary – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: The objective of this paper is to examine the initiation of the University of the Heads of the Valley Initiative (UHOVI) project and evaluate the development of its focus, materials and structure. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology employs interviews with a purposive sample of local employer stakeholders. The rationale for this…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Skill Development
Edmond, Nadia – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
Rapid change in higher education (HE) has lead to a reappraisal and debate about the role and "mission" of the university and the university teacher. In the diversification of the HE sector, it is possible to see a shift away from the "advancement of knowledge" as the primary purpose of the HE sector as a whole. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Role of Education, Professional Development
Bell, Jacqueline; Donnelly, James – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
This paper is concerned with a specific example of an emerging international tendency within secondary education: the process of "vocationalization". It begins with an account of the wider international and historical context and then focuses on an empirical study of a recent reform of the late-secondary curriculum in England: the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Technology, English Curriculum
Polesel, John; Keating, Jack – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Located differentially (and to its detriment) within a status hierarchy of knowledge, vocational education has been called upon to satisfy an increasing range of political and social needs, including meeting the needs of industry and government and catering for increasing pupil diversity. Faced with stubbornly immobile rates of school completion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy
Goldney, David; Murphy, Tom; Fien, John; Kent, Jenny – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Society is becoming increasingly aware of the need for education to play a key role in integrating knowledge and understanding about sustainability into practical, vocational skills which can be used in the workplace. Education for sustainability is now a widely accepted concept which seeks to promote and develop sustainability skills and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Principles, Educational Policy
Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Journal of Education Policy, 2005
This paper explores the changing roles and purposes of vocational education for young people in what has been called a 'knowledge' society, using the General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ) as an example. This qualification dominated the broad, vocationally-related route within the English qualifications system throughout the 1990s. The…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Young Adults, Adult Education, Vocational Education

Williams, Vivian – Comparative Education, 1994
Edmund King's writings and research on postcompulsory education in England and western Europe encouraged innovative policies in British further education. Educational opportunities for students aged 16-19 have broadened to include both academic and vocational courses in an effort to ease the school-to-work transition. (KS)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Policy

McCulloch, Gary; Sobell, Liz – History of Education, 1994
Maintains that surprisingly little attention has been given to secondary modern schools by historians. Maintains that a new approach is needed to examine the impact of social differentiation in English and Welsh schools. Asserts that a more current history of secondary schools will provide new insights into British social history. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational History, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Mazzotti, Luciana; Murphy, Barbara; Kent, Jenny – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Society is becoming increasingly aware of the need for education to play a key role in integrating knowledge and understanding about sustainability into practical, vocational skills which can be used in the workplace. Education for sustainability is now a widely accepted concept which seeks to promote and develop sustainability skills and…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Environmental Education
Oates, Tim – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
This article analyses the increasingly diverse and sophisticated critique of "outcomes approaches" in vocational qualifications; critique which has now moved well beyond the early claims of reductivism and behaviourism. Avoiding a naive position on extraction of points of consensus, this article attempts to extract key issues which have…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Outcome Based Education
Hughes, Maria; Kypri, Photoula – FE Matters, 1998
This paper looks at the involvement of further education (FE) colleges in England and Wales in economic development and presents case studies of good practice in nine FE colleges. Chapter 1 addresses FE's role in economic development and measuring and planning economic growth. Chapter 2 contains the case studies: Lewisham College's Action for…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Development, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Payne, Joan; Cheng, Yuan; Witherspoon, Sharon – 1996
This book describes the experiences of a series of five nationally representative cohorts of young people reaching school-leaving age between 1986 and 1993 who were surveyed as part of the continuing England and Wales Youth Cohort Study. The cohort study charts the path taken by young people over the first 3 years after compulsory education. Part…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Decision Making, Educational Certificates
Preston, John; Hammond, Cathie – 2002
The wider benefits of further education (FE) were examined in a survey circulated to more than 10,000 FE practitioners in a representative sample of FE colleges throughout England. A total of 2,729 questionnaires (approximately 27%) were returned. The following were among the benefits of FE cited: esteem; efficacy; independence of thought; problem…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
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