Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2005)
This article provides a critique of South Africa's attempt to transform apprenticeships using data from the 2004 Baseline Survey of the Learnership Programme in South Africa. The data suggests that Learnerships provide important opportunities for those in work to learn new theoretical and practical …
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2005)
This article discusses aspects of the informal learning of tertiary teachers in a polytechnic, a wananga (Maori tertiary institution) and a university in New Zealand. Case studies showed that they gained their teaching knowledge and skills mainly on the job, through informal, experiential learning, …
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2005)
In this article I draw attention to the current legitimising of new forms of identity of vocational and higher education learners. Using identity as a lens for examining pedagogy I focus on one of these new forms–the learner-worker identity. I examine one teaching and learning practice portfolio dev…
Source:Entrepreneurship Research in Europe: Outcomes and Perspectives
(2005)
Seija Mahlamäki-Kultanen INTRODUCTION Rural municipalities and villages all over the world, including Finland, are losing their younger inhabitants and enterprises at the same time as bigger centres (towns and cities) keep growing (Cecora, 2000). Sustaining the population of rural areas by increasin…
Source:Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005: The Next 10 Years - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005, CSCL 2005
(2005)
Lab courses are an integral part of higher education in engineering sciences. In this paper, we report about a blended learning approach for such courses in computer science education. We show how the project method for co-located learning can be translated into a blended CSCL setting for a lab cour…
Source:Maximizing the Benefits from Water and Environmental Sanitation: Proceedings of the 31st WEDC Conference
(2005)
This paper describes how the Ministry of Education and Sports embarked on reforming business technical and vocational education and training in Uganda by introducing Competency Based Education and Training. It explains how skeleton Uganda Vocational Qualification Framework UVQF, secretariat was crea…
Source:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
(2005)
The Working Process-oriented Continuing Training project of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering has developed and evaluated a new form of continuing vocational training. This project was conducted in cooperation with leading IT enterprises and well-known education institute…
Source:Australian Journal of Emergency Management
(2005)
The changing nature of work has and is impacting on emergency services education programs in Australia. University-Industry partnerships are becoming more common and the learning and outcome requirements at management level is becoming more complex. Professionalisation does not bring all good news f…
Source:The Management of Innovation and Technology: The Shaping of Technology and Institutions of the Market Economy
(2005)
This book analyzes a range of social contexts in which human decisions shape technology in the market economy. It comprises a critical review of both a select research literature and in-depth historical studies. Material is drawn from many social science disciplines to inform the reader of the reali…
