The skills, qualifications and credentials generated by educational systems are strongly related to labour market attainment. The centrality of the educational system for the structuring of individuals' life chances has generated a long-lived and intense debate around the proper design of educationa…
This paper reviews cross-national research and policy debates about pathways between education and work, and draws on this review to reflect on the utility of the pathways concept itself. It identifies three main uses of the concept: to analyse the relative size and role of general education, school…
Source:Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
(2003)
This paper examines the way the Japanese education system strategically channels talent towards its elite universities, turning out a high proportion of engineers and architects for the construction industry. At the same time, it provides limited education for construction workers and technicians in…
Occupational irritant contact dermatitis in the food industry will be playing an important role in the next decades and will be challenging people involved in prevention, diagnostics and therapy. To interfere successfully with the natural course of the disease, knowledge about prevalence, causes and…
It has become fashionable in the UK in recent years to disparage vocational education that involves a strong initial component. It is instead argued that a rapidly changing economic situation requires that individuals undertake sustained periods of learning related to their presumed constant occupat…
Understanding relations between the social and cognitive contributions to thinking and acting has become a pressing goal for psychological theorizing. Central to understanding these relations is the negotiation and construction of knowledge that is comprised of the inter-psychological processes that…
In the face of research that shows that workplace knowledge and learning are highly contextual, calls for the teaching of generalizable skills for the workplace have been widespread. While the authors reject the usefulness of teaching generalizable skills, they believe that there are commonalities i…
Source:International Journal of Training and Development
(2003)
The differences between on- and off-job learning environments continue to be the subject of much debate, and the notion of complementarity between them is a perennial issue for most forms of training and development. This paper grapples with this issue in relation to apprentices in the building indu…
