Source:Teaching English Language Learners in Career and Technical Education Programs
(2008)
Exploring the unique challenges of vocational education, this book provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach English Language Learners in today's Career and Technical Education programs. The authors' teaching framework and case studies draw from common settings in which career and t…
Source:British Journal of Educational Psychology
(2008)
Background. The quality of child care is of social and economic significance worldwide. The beliefs that child care workers hold about knowing and knowledge (epistemological beliefs) influence the quality of their professional work. However, attention to epistemological beliefs is rarely a focus in …
Source:British Journal of Educational Studies
(2008)
The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mud masons in Mali and fine-woodwork trainees in Lon…
Source:British Journal of Educational Studies
(2008)
This article investigates the experience of individual learners who have been allocated learning support in the further education system in England. The particular focus is on interviewees' constructions of their emotional and psychic experiences. Through the adoption of a psycho-social perspective,…
Purpose - This paper aims to report findings from a North East (of England) study co-financed by the European Social Fund and the Learning and Skills Council to explore the issues around the provision of vocational training for women in Northumberland, focusing on the construction, engineering and m…
The Columbus, Ind., manufacturer of large diesel engines, is making efforts to address the shortage of skilled workers for automotive supplier, Cummins Inc., by partnering with local technical colleges. The company is also involved in a southeastern Indiana workforce development initiative called Ec…
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present review focuses on the education needs and related pedagogical aspects of education in forensic psychiatry. RECENT FINDINGS: Physicians specializing in other fields generally deal with concepts that are thoroughly addressed in forensic psychiatry, such as the ability of…
This article discusses the career biographies of four individuals in transition. They were responding to the challenges of engaging in work-related learning, re-shaping their careers and their career identities. The four cases were selected from a larger sample of fifty participants in a five-year l…
Source:Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy
(2008)
Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) perspective, this book critically analyse…
