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Caruso, Valentina; Cattaneo, Alberto; Gurtner, Jean-Luc; Ainsworth, Shaaron – Vocations and Learning, 2019
Professional vision is a key skill in visually-oriented professions, but its relevance to vocational education and training has only drawn limited attention from researchers. When educating fashion designers, professional vision is vital because precisely analysing clothing is required to create good products suitable for customers. In this study,…
Descriptors: Clothing, Design, Vocational Education, Professional Development
Gao, Yuan – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
This study identified the motives for vocational education and training (VET) providers in different countries to collaborate internationally and the challenges they encounter by interviewing 16 teachers, program coordinators, and managers from four VET providers in China and Canada. The findings of this study highlight the difference in primary…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Vocational Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Frangou, Satu-Maarit; Keskitalo, Pigga – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2021
This article presents a research-based study of the role of ePortfolios in the development of vocational students' skills. The authors discuss the process of finding a hybrid learning solution that can address the issues faced by vocational teachers and their students. The authors report on a case study using educational design research (EDR) at…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Competency Based Education, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning
Fombona, Javier; Fombona-Pascual, Alba; Vazquez-Cano, Esteban – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
This article shows the result of an international project from the European Commission, and it aimed to analyse 30 cases of effective European entities in the field of adult education, from Poland, Spain, Finland and Italy. The objective was to collect the best strategies that generate good employment and social inclusion results. The research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Integration, Employment Opportunities
Bedi, Gitanjali; Germein, Susan – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
This article proposes that Education for Sustainability (EfS), with its focus on transformative and learner-centred approaches, and higher order thinking skills, enriches teaching and learning in Vocational Education and Training (VET), with implications for quality pedagogy more generally. EfS pedagogy has the potential to inform a new discourse…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Vocational Education
Allan, Graham; Moffett, Janet – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
This paper explores the extent to which students on a vocational postgraduate programme identify with characteristics and competences that define a professional career guidance and counselling practitioner. Literature suggests professionalism in careers work is characterised by a focus on the needs of the client with the practitioner in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Career Guidance, Career Counseling
Skills & Qualifications: Benefits for People. How Learning and Guidance Professionals Make It Happen
Carlebach, Ezri; Branco, Eduarda Castel; Deij, Arjen; de Jong, Mirjam; van Uden, Jolien – European Training Foundation, 2019
The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. It focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Foreign Countries
Denskus, Tobias; Esser, Daniel E. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
We review the ontological and pedagogical origins of International Development graduate education in the context of increasing pressures to "professionalise" graduate curricula. We apply Giroux's concept of "vocationalisation" to argue that professionalisation risks undermining the field's intellectual foundations in an elusive…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, International Studies, Graduate Study, Professional Development
Virtanen, Anne; Tynjälä, Päivi; Eteläpelto, Anneli – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
In order to promote effective pedagogical practices for students' work-based learning, we need to understand better how students' learning at work can be supported. This paper examines the factors explaining students' workplace learning (WPL) outcomes, addressing three aspects: (1) student-related individual factors, (2) social and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Performance Factors, Student Experience, Workplace Learning
Smith, Martin H.; Meehan, Cheryl L.; Borba, John A. – Journal of Extension, 2014
Improving bio-security practices among 4-H members who raise and show project animals is important. Bio-security measures can reduce the risk of disease spread and mitigate potential health and economic risks of disease outbreaks involving animal and zoonotic pathogens. Survey data provided statistical evidence that the Bio-Security Proficiencies…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, National Security, Animal Husbandry
Bakah, Marie A. B.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
While teachers and administrators in polytechnics in Ghana have categorically expressed the growing need for the former's knowledge and skills to be updated in the era of polytechnic transformation, little attention has been paid to the subject. This study reports a professional development intervention organised for 16 engineering teachers…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Development
Williams, Kim Marianne – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2011
Wine tourism in Australia has grown substantially in recent years and contributes to employment opportunities in regional areas. To meet the requirements of this growing sector, workers need a considerable degree of skill-specific training; development of wine tourism personnel will be required. This article examines challenging human resource…
Descriptors: Tourism, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Human Resources
Sturko, Patricia A.; Gregson, James A. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2009
This multi-case study explored the learning and collaboration of six Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers in two different types of professional development experiences: (a) a course on integrating reading, writing, and mathematics skills into CTE curricula, delivered by a master teacher; and (b) a small teacher study group that met…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education, Case Studies
Zachry, Elizabeth M.; Schneider, Emily – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2010
One of the greatest challenges that community colleges face in their efforts to increase graduation rates is improving the success of students in their developmental, or remedial, education programs. This literature review seeks to examine research on developmental education strategies and reforms and identify the most promising approaches for…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Developmental Programs, Remedial Instruction, Adjunct Faculty
Philadelphia Youth Network, 2009
In Spring 2007, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded funds to the Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) to undertake an analysis of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in Philadelphia, and to make recommendations on how CTE and other forms of career-connected education could better align with Philadelphia standards for college and career…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Labor Market, Skill Development, Alignment (Education)