Improving curriculum development practices in a technical vocational community college: examining effects of a professional development arrangement for middle managers Nabeel M. Albashiry, Joke M. Voogt & Jules M. Pieters To cite this article: Nabeel M. Albashiry, Joke M. Voogt & Jules M. Pieters (2015) Improving curriculum development practices in a technical vocational community college: exam...

A Critical Analysis of Iranian Training Programs forTechno-Vocational Teachers across Time   A. A. Khallaaghi, Ph.D.* A. Navidi, Ph.D.**   The Iranian educational system has been facing, not only a shortage of techno-vocational teachers across all such schools and over the past one hundred years, but inadequacies in the qualities of those who have served in this sector. An analysis of th...

1 Duzce University, Faculty of Business, Department of Health Institutions Management, Duzce, Turkey 2 Duzce University, The Vocational School of Health Services, Duzce, Turkey 3 Ministry of Health, Sakarya University Teaching and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey 4 Gulhane Military Medical Academy, The Vocational School of Health Non-commissioned Officer, Ankara,Turkey 5 General Secretariat o...

This paper advances a scheme that proposes how curriculum goals and content might be conceptualised for vocational education. The scheme is founded in socio-historical activity theory. An account of the social sources of vocational knowledge (sociogeneses) comprising history, culture and situation is discussed to illuminate how both the canonical requirements of vocational practice and its mani...

Background This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers, especially teachers’ work-life competence in relation to their teaching subject. ‘Vocational teacher’ is not a clearly defined profession (Misra 2011; Parsons et al. 2009), and furthermore, vocational teachers work in various vocational education systems (e.g. Billett 2011). However, the startin...

Objectives: The present review study aimed at investigating the vocational rehabilitation of individuals with drug dependence disorders.  Methods: Based on the research method, a comprehensive search was conducted in the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, EBSCO, ProQuest and Google Scholar. All keywords synonymous with vocational rehabilitation and substance a...

The transition from pediatric to adult medical services has a greater impact on the care of adolescents or young adults with chronic diseases such as cystinosis. This transition period is a time of psychosocial development and new responsibilities placing these patients at increased risk of non-adherence. This can lead to serious adverse effects such as graft loss and progression of the disease...

ance directors have sought to tap interests, but few have determined accurately the degree to which any fundamental interest is possessed. They have not, with any degree of satisfaction, been able to tap accurately the interests of those who are not conscious, in the sense of being fully aware, of a vocational interest. The major proportion of college undergraduates are without vocational infor...