Purpose: This paper examines how vocational civics teachers navigate structural constraints and their understanding of the challenges involved in preparing vocational students for democratic citizenship. Design/methodology/approach: Using a discursive psychological approach to analyse interview material, the study discusses identified discourses…

An action research study was conducted to determine if attending a targeted, differentiated professional development could impact beginning Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers' readiness to teach students with special needs. The action research consisted of two iterations of a professional development intervention which was designed to…

Marines have a calling: "We run toward the sound of chaos." With the war in Afghanistan in the past and the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq still unclear, service members are leaving the military in droves. There is now an entire generation of Global War on Terrorism veterans re-entering civilian society with nowhere to go. The…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand how middle school Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers and school site administrators in Riverside County perceived the structure and content of a CTE course's impact on student classroom behaviors. A second purpose was to explore what elements of a CTE course, teachers and administrators…

School districts across the nation are struggling to fill Career and Technical Education (CTE) teaching positions each year (Devier, 2019). To address this demand in Texas, state lawmakers passed legislation to create Districts of Innovation (DOI) in2015 (Texas Education Agency, 2020a). The DOI designation gives school districts more local control…

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to understand the lived experience of rural teachers in Southwest Minnesota during the spring 2020 transition to distance learning and to unearth any connection between the transition experience and rural teacher retention. The rapid and dramatic transition to distance learning for public…

This study examined the Career and Technology Education teachers' perception of their preparedness to teach special needs students in a Career and Technology Education (CTE) program in a rural county in South Carolina. The study focused on CTE teachers teaching within inclusive classrooms, their perception as it pertains to the impact of access to…

Purpose: Leaders in education face diverse challenges in an increasingly competitive and changing environment. Although women numerically dominate the workforce, senior managers are predominately men. The purpose of this paper is to examine leadership skills required for senior management roles in vocational education training (VET); determine if…

Purpose: This paper aims to extend the workplace learning literature by conceptualising the relationship between college-based and workplace learning, through critically examining how trainee teachers learn when they enter an initial teacher training programme. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on the findings of a completed research…