This work is based on the experience of the authors' involvement in the development of a Masters of Vocational Pedagogy program in Uganda and Southern Sudan between 2007 and 2011. This is also grounded in work with Vocational Education and Culture (VET) over many years. The terms VET and Culture are interdependent; both terms are highly contested…

Describes the Indiana internship program which provided experiential education in vocational special needs to 40 interns in a 10-week summer program. Presents the findings regarding perceived increased competency levels resulting from this experience. (CT)

The purpose of the monograph is the identification of unsolved problems in providing programs of graduate education in the field of industrial education. In part one there are reports of a literature review on graduate education and a study of the status of industrial education graduate programs. Parts two, three and four are addressed to current…

A 2-year teacher preparation and induction process for faculty new to teaching is being implemented in Iowa's community colleges. The process includes a series of credit-earning seminars that are sequentially taught at predefined levels of competence and implemented in the teacher's classroom with the assistance of the master teacher and…

This paper proposes a Virtual Teacher Training Center (VTTC) as an effective and efficient short-term solution that can become an integral part of a long-term solution to a crisis in career and technical education (CTE) teacher availability. An introduction discusses the challenge and describes the VTTC's two major foundations, which are the…

While the vocational instructor can play a major role in assisting the transfer of technology from developed nations, there are some major hurdles involved in training vocational instructors in developing nations. Included among these are the organization of the education system, the political climate of the country, economics, practice teaching,…

A long-standing dilemma in career and technical education (CTE) has been the best way to train new teachers. Recent literature reviews by Bruening et al. (2001) and Gray and Walter (2001) provide overviews of current CTE teacher education programs and CTE teacher licensing and preparation. Some of their findings include a trend toward more…

Australia's large distances and widely distributed population has meant that distance education has been an important part of its history. From the earliest provision of schooling by mail through a series of correspondence schools, both state and federal governments have provided a sound infrastructure to support distance education. Innovative…