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Daniel Paul Köhler; Michael Goller – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: Active engagement and participation in professional practices are an important requirement for expertise development in vocational domains. However, not much is known about how work contexts foster or hinder such expertise development. To further fill this research gap, this study investigates two vocational domains, namely sales…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, On the Job Training, Professional Development
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Brockmann, Michaela; Smith, Rob – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
In England, a new model of apprenticeship was initiated in whose stated intention was to 'put employers in the driving seat'. Regulation of the new model was focused on the mandatory 20% of apprentices' work time allocated to off-the-job training offered by colleges and other training providers. Based on case studies of employers and training…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Off the Job Training, Apprenticeships, Partnerships in Education
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Julie F. McClelland; Una O'Connor; Christine Shannon; Kathryn J. Saunders; Julie-Anne Little – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The role of the classroom assistant (CA) is considered pivotal in inclusive provision for pupils with additional needs. CAs' support of pupils who have a visual impairment (VI) is greatly underreported in the literature. Scaffolding theory was applied to investigate the role of CAs in supporting pupils who have a VI in mainstream schools in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Teacher Aides, Mainstreaming
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Chaiyapong, Akkakorn; Dhammasaccakarn, Wanchai; Chuaboon, Wanchai; Jaroensombut, Lertlak; Sakolnakorn, Thongphon Promsaka Na – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
The aim of this paper is to study the key points of managing cooperative credit unions in south Thailand and how to strengthen the education and knowledge of the management team, staff and members. This paper is based on a qualitative method via in-depth interviews and a focus group with members and committees of cooperative credit unions in south…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperatives, Banking, Guidelines
UK Department for Education, 2024
The Department for Education (DfE) is committed to minimising the use of reasonable force, including physical restraint and other restrictive practices in all schools in England, including special schools and alternative provision. This work programme will include updating the 'Use of reasonable force' guidance (2013) to provide school staff with…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Nontraditional Education, Discipline, Students with Disabilities
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Carvache-Franco, Orly; Gutiérrez-Candela, Glenda; Guim-Bustos, Paola – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2023
The objective of this research was to examine the relationship of the variables training and learning, and the diversity of sources of innovation's ideas, with the social innovation of non-profit organisations (NPOs). The study was carried out in Guayas-Ecuador. It is a quantitative, cross-sectional, and non-experimental study, in which Probit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonprofit Organizations, Innovation, Correlation
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Sweta Singh; Chetan Chitre – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2025
Purpose: This paper aims to further the understanding of the motivation to learn (ML) among an organisation's older cohort of employees. It is proposed that age diversity climate (ADC) will positively impact ML by improving employees' subjective age (SA) perception. Such a climate will indicate that the organisational climate is fair and inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Employee Attitudes, Age Differences
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Wessels, Rochelle G. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that public servants must deliver services to improve the general welfare of the citizens. The public servants therefore have a duty to the citizens to deliver effective and efficient public services that will be to the satisfaction of the citizens to improve their well-being. However, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Employees, City Government, Staff Development
Givens, Marlee, Ed.; Slutskaya, Sofia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, which means that finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is more challenging than ever. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Libraries, Library Services, Staff Development
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Gaponova, O. S.; Korshunov, I. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article discusses an empirical study that was conducted by the authors, in which they surveyed focus groups of young innovative entrepreneurs who are at different stages of creating their own projects. The authors devote particular attention to how training programs for the founders and staff should be implemented as the startup develops from…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Focus Groups, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
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Flynn, Samantha; Hastings, Richard P.; Gillespie, David; McNamara, Rachel; Randell, Elizabeth – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: The Who's Challenging Who? (WCW) training is coproduced and delivered by people with intellectual disabilities (IDs), and it aims to improve staff empathy for people with challenging behaviour (CB). This study qualitatively describes trainees' and trainers' experiences of the WCW. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intellectual Disability, Empathy, Training
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Goad, Elisabeth – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to experience adverse childhood experiences than those in the general population. Additionally, the conceptualization of 'trauma' is far broader than traditionally understood in order to encompass the far reaching relational nature of people with intellectual disabilities traumatic experiences.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Trauma, Child Abuse, Foreign Countries
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Birgit Zeyer-Gliozzo – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
The automation of job tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on workers whose jobs consist largely of such activities. In this context, politics and science attach great importance to further training, although the benefits for affected workers have hardly been investigated. Drawing on human capital theory and the task-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Automation, Job Security, Skill Obsolescence
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Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene; Finlayson, Janet; Bernal, Jane; Taggart, Laurence; Lam, Claire Kar Kei; Todd, Stuart – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Illness and death are part of life for everyone, including people with intellectual disabilities. This study investigated the extent to which staff communicate about death with people with intellectual disability facing terminal illness or bereavement. Method: Staff who support people with intellectual disability in the UK (n = 690)…
Descriptors: Death, Adults, Terminal Illness, Grief
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Wilson, Nathan J.; Lin, Zhen; Pithouse, Margery; Morrison, Bonnie; Sumar, Bashir; George, Ajesh – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
The oral health of people with intellectual and developmental disability is poorer than that of the general community. Any solution for people with intellectual and developmental disability living in residential services needs to include disability support workers (DSWs). Previous studies have used either didactic or train-the-trainer approaches…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Health Promotion
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