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The Social Construction of Vocational Education -- Possibilities for Change towards Status Improvement
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Gabriela M. Höhns – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This article explores change possibilities towards status improvement in vocational education's social construction. Following other researchers, it assumes that higher-status vocational education should give vocational learners perspectives that would accord with their identities and desires, broadly ranging between working in a particular…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Social Status, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning
Surgical Education and Training in an Outer Metropolitan Hospital: A Qualitative Study of Surgical Trainers and Trainees
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Nestel, Debra; Harlim, Jennifer; Bryant, Melanie; Rampersad, Rajay; Hunter-Smith, David; Spychal, Bob – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
The landscape of surgical training is changing. The anticipated increase in the numbers of surgical trainees and the shift to competency-based surgical training places pressures on an already stretched health service. With these pressures in mind, we explored trainers' and trainees' experiences of surgical training in a less traditional rotation,…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Clinical Experience, Hospitals, Surgery
Rules of Engagement: The Joint Influence of Trainer Expressiveness and Trainee Experiential Learning Style on Engagement and Training Transfer
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Rangel, Bertha; Chung, Wonjoon; Harris, T. Brad; Carpenter, Nichelle C.; Chiaburu, Dan S.; Moore, Jenna L. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2015
We investigated the joint effect of trainer expressiveness and trainee experiential learning style on training transfer intentions. Extending prior research where trainer expressiveness has been established as a positive predictor of transfer, we show that trainer expressiveness is more impactful for trainees with high (vs. low) experiential…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Cognitive Style, Learner Engagement, Transfer of Training
Mentoring in the Rail Context: The Influence of Training, Style, and Practice
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Naweed, Anjum; Ambrosetti, Angelina – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate workplace learning in the context of the rail industry, specifically for the type of learning required to become a train driver. It examines the impact of changes to the traditional learning model, and explores the potential of mentoring in the learning/training model.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Transportation, Driver Education, Workplace Learning
Selected Topics in Peace Corps Training.
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Hubchen, Jonathan – 1987
Steps to alleviate the problems in achieving successful technical and cross-cultural training for United States Peace Corps volunteers are discussed. Historically, training was conducted at American universities or centers in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, or the Virgin Islands, but by the mid-1970s, in response to criticism that this provided inadequate…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Developing Nations, Employment Experience, Experiential Learning
Facts, Fiction and Future. Australian Apprenticeships.
Robinson, Chris – 2001
This report describes apprenticeship system development in Australia and provides a quantitative macro-level analysis of apprenticeship, traineeship, and new apprenticeship trends. Following an introduction (chapter 1), chapters 2-3 trace its European origins and establishment in colonial Australia, development and evolution through the twentieth…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Comparative Education