Source:International Journal of Inclusive Education
(2009)
Interviews with 14-19 year olds in England and Wales are analysed to explore young people's perceptions of the experience of school and of alternative settings for learning such as further education colleges or work-based learning. Many experience school as oppressive, suggesting a defeasance of the…
Practicing as a professional planner in an international development context can be tough on the soul.Whereas planning is intended to be forward-looking and grounded in participatory processes and multi-disciplinary solutions, development realities are more often defined by constant pressure to resp…
Source:Accessing Healthcare: Responding to Diversity
(2009)
Health care systems in developed countries must respond to diverse populations especially given increasing population movements. These groups make different claims upon the state and may have different health care needs and expectations. But policy-makers and professionals often seem blind to this d…
Source:The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management
(2009)
This article provides the context for training, development, and competence. In the training section, theory, policy, and practice are considered, including the diversity of national systems for vocational education and training (VET) and the relationship between work organization and workplace lear…
Source:The Oxford Handbook of Business History
(2009)
This article surveys the literature on skill formation and training, presenting arguments about the significance of skills and the historical sources of variation in training regimes. It considers briefly a range of arguments by economists and political scientists on the implications of different, n…
Source:Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science, ETCS 2009
(2009)
Because of much practicality of marketing education, experience teaching can effectively raise teaching efficiency. Based on the constructivist learning theory, which emphasizes active construction, situated construction and social construction of knowledge, this paper brings out the experience teac…
This paper describes the introduction and further development of the method of projects in the school practice. The contributions of Dewey, Kilpatrick and Stimson are specially emphasized. The influence of these pedagogical ideas to the Bulgarian educational theory and practice is also examined. The…
Development of career goals that are adapted to self and opportunities is a central component of adolescent career preparation. The present longitudinal study (conducted throughout the eighth grade with three assessment points) investigated how 330 Swiss adolescents simultaneously adapt career goals…
The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of a training module in improving knowledge competencies for resource room teachers in Jordan. The training module consisted of 10 training sessions, covered three domains, namely, planning, instruction and classroom management, and evaluation comp…
