Career Design Laboratory for Gender Equality, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan 1The National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation, 3-1-3 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba 261-0014, Japan 2Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 3Faculty of Regional Science, Tottori University, 4-101 Koyama-cho Minami, Tottori 680-8550, Japan 4...

Unemployment among persons with disabilities is a serious and prevalent problem. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, as of May 2014, the employment rate for people without disabilities was 71.4 percent, but only 25.3 percent for persons with any disability [1], an employment gap of 46.1 percent. According to a comprehensive review of the literature between 1978 a...

Over the last 20 years, the voice of business and its impact upon Australian vocational education have transformed. These changes range from enterprise reluctance to be involved through to industry determining what is taught and assessed, and how, as well as the principles for administering vocational education, and attempts to use vocational education to reform the schooling system. These tran...

Numerous public and private organizations and agencies conduct adult agricultural education programs. Many of the public sector programs can be traced to the Smith-Lever and Smith-Hughes Acts enacted in 1914 and 1917, respectively, that created the Cooperative Extension System and provided federal funds for vocational-technical education in agriculture. Adult agricultural education programs tha...

The work-oriented change in the didactics of vocational education (VET) identifies ‘significant’ vocational work situations and the associated work process knowledge as the pivotal factor in the design of vocational curricula and processes. What is dramatic about this change of perspective is not merely the departure from academic, discipline-based teaching methods, but also the formulation of ...

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of different techniques for the assessment of vocational interests. In an empirical study (n = 264) a questionnaire, a nonverbal test, several objective personality tests, and a semi-projective test were applied in one single session in a computerized setting. All tests enable the assessment of vocational interests with regard to the the...

A major gap in Holland's theory of vocational identity has been specification of the developn~ental antecedents of the six personality typea. The present paper extends Geoffrey Kelso's work on the developmental antecedents of Holland's types by examining the relationship between membership in adolescent social crowds and vocational identity in early adulthood. In four samples (total N = 274), m...

More information about the best ways to help veterans with spinal cord injury return to work is needed. Supported employment is a type of vocational rehabilitation that helps persons with disabilities get paying jobs in the community. This type of vocational rehabilitation has not been widely used and has never been tested among persons with spinal cord injury. This article describes a research...

The projects described in this special section span three continents, reflecting the remarkably rapid spread of evidence-based supported employment for individuals with severe mental illness. Supported employment originated in the work of Wehman and others during the early 1980s [9]. Tracing the roots of its successful application for people with severe mental illness, we might date the genesis...

In the vocational education of socialism with Chinese characteristics, it is necessary to cultivate high quality technical and skilled talents implement fundamental task "cultivating virtues cultivating people". Education as foundation, moral first, ideological political into implementation education, achieve full, all-round role education. Secondary plays a in has great influence on continuous...