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Orana Sandri; Jan Hayes; Sarah Holdsworth – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
A global transition to low-carbon, resource-efficient economies is occurring in response to risks posed by climate change and environmental degradation. Hydrogen is proposed as a zero-carbon substitute for natural gas with the potential to reduce carbon emissions in homes and businesses. Trades, including gasfitting, will be affected by the…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Energy, Efficiency, Climate
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Marit Lensjø – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Vocational teachers in building and construction in upper secondary school deal with complex situations of an organisational, vocational, and social kind. Recent research has shown that the teacher is the single most important factor for students' learning in school. Teacher-student relationships and the teacher's repertoire of teaching practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Construction Programs
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Michelle Spiegel; Emily K. Penner; Andrew Penner – Urban Education, 2024
We use novel information about fixture-specific water lead levels (WLLs) in Portland, Oregon schools to explore inequalities in students' potential for exposure to lead in drinking water at school. We find that Black and Hispanic students were in classrooms with higher WLLs than white students primarily because they attended different schools. The…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Equal Education, Disadvantaged, Poisoning