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Direct linkKarareba, Gilbert; Baillie, Caroline – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
We argue for the need for and provide an example of a new form of community-based engineering education in Rwanda. We draw on Bourdieu's theories of field and habitus to frame the arguments for an alternative to the current dominant engineering education model. The proposed community engineering education programme has three key facets including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods
Download full textGinja, Tamirat Gibon – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Technical and Vocational Education & skills Training (TVET) and Micro & Small Enterprises (MSEs) are so significant sectors in socio-economic development journey of a country. This Article was aimed at investigating empirically the challenges that Micro and Small Enterprises facing and the extent of business development services provided…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Ogunleye, Ayodele; Owolabi, Tunde; Adeyemo, Sunday – Online Submission, 2013
In recent times, the role of entrepreneurs has been recognized to be of great significance in accelerating the pace of growth of economic development of any country. Internet-enabled technologies have also challenged existing business models in numerous market sectors and offered innovation opportunities to a variety of stakeholders--not least…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Web Sites
Entrepreneurship Inst., Columbus, OH. – 1983
A conference dealing with new enterprise and economic development initiatives today, Project NEED IT was designed to familiarize decision makers at all levels of the public, private, and educational sectors with the best new enterprise development projects being carried out in the United States today. During the conference, a series of papers and…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Budgeting, Business Administration, Business Responsibility
van den Tillaart, Harry; van den Berg, Sjaak; Warmerdam, John – 1998
Work and learning in microenterprises in the car repair industries of four European Community (EC) countries were examined through 21 case studies of firms with 10 or fewer employees (6 firms in Ireland and 5 each in Greece, the Netherlands, and Spain). Structured interviews were conducted with each firm's owner and 60 motor vehicle mechanics at…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education
van den Tillaart, Harry; van den Berg, Sjaak; Warmerdam, John – 1998
Work and learning in microenterprises in the printing industries of four European Community (EC) countries were examined through 17 case studies of firms with 10 or fewer employees (5 firms in Finland and 4 each in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain). Structured interviews were conducted with each firm's owner and a total of 90 staff at the 17…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education, Economic Development
Maine State Dept. of Labor, Augusta. – 1999
This handbook is designed to help Maine's citizens and business persons understand why work force development is important in Maine and how Maine's new work force development system will be organized to enable the state to implement the Workforce Investment Act. The following are among the topics discussed throughout the handbook: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Counseling Services
