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Márta Héreginé Nagy; Sándor Lénárd; László Horváth; Nóra Rapos – School Leadership & Management, 2024
Growing evidence suggests that the effectiveness of a school's operations is determined not by a single leader, but by a community of leaders. Middle managers can coordinate processes in formal positions and lead informal groups, facilitating the realisation of leadership goals. This study utilises a large-scale survey to analyse middle managers'…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Teacher Attitudes, Workplace Learning, School Size
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Smith, Erica – International Journal of Training Research, 2020
The expertise and professionalism of teachers is vital in vocational education and training (VET), as it is in any other education sector. As 'dual professionals', VET teachers need to keep abreast of their industry or discipline area as well as maintaining and improving their pedagogical skills and knowledge. VET workplaces (colleges and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education, Professionalism
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Batholmeus, Petrina; Pop, Carver – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2019
The demand for relevant skills for the labor market constitutes one of the fundamental challenges facing the post-school system in South Africa. The South African government has therefore proposed a policy on professional development teacher education programs for Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the South African Department of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Workplace Learning, Job Skills
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Orozco, Mariana; Gijbels, David; Timmerman, Christiane – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
The integration of theory and practice constitutes an anchor of today's technical vocational education and training (T-VET) and a major determinant of professional development. Understanding such integration is expected to contribute to pedagogical advancement and to provide new research tools. Current knowledge on the epistemological roots of…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Epistemology, Vocational Education, Faculty Development
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Sjølie, Ela; Francisco, Susanne; Langelotz, Lill – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2019
This paper explores teacher learning. It focuses on access to 'communicative learning spaces' (a concept we coin and develop within this paper) and argues that the creation of such spaces can be a powerful enabler of teacher learning. We draw on the findings from three studies conducted in three different countries - Norway, Australia and Sweden.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Teacher Education Programs, Beginning Teachers, Professional Continuing Education
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Andersson, Per; Köpsén, Susanne – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Changes in working life require development in vocational education and training (VET) to retain industrial currency. VET teachers are key actors in VET, and their continuing professional development (CPD) in vocational subjects is central to the currency of VET. This study is situated in Sweden, with a mainly school-based VET system where VET…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Workplace Learning
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Arinaitwe, Dinavence – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
The study aimed to identify and understand practices and strategies for enhancing learning through collaboration among a master's degree in vocational pedagogy (MVP) program, vocational teacher training institutions (VTIs), and workplaces. Using in-depth semi-structured individual and focus group interviews, data were obtained from administrators,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Mentors, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Developments in five priority areas for VET, agreed in 2015 by the EU-28, Iceland, Norway, candidate countries, the European Commission and EU social partners, are at the centre of this report. Work in 2015-19 shows continuity with earlier national strategies and initiatives. It confirms the recent focus on apprenticeships and other forms of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Access to Education
European Training Foundation, 2020
By 16 March 2020, most education systems in the EU neighbourhood and Central Asia had closed their schools. In a matter of days, some distance learning was offered in most systems and in the ensuing weeks, most countries steadily broadened the offer and the extent of participation. This short report aims to describe what happened in the countries…
Descriptors: Distance Education, School Closing, Disease Incidence, Disease Control
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: International Education, Adult Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Students