China has limitedly encouraged the talent flow, in which the flow of young talents mainly including the university graduates draws many people's attention. But the recent employment of university graduates is not desirable. The key of this problem lies in the ability of university graduates does not meet the demand of units, so it is necessary now to solve the problem of employability of univer...

Technology has produced another alternative: the use of interactive video networks (Whisler, 1988). Rural schools interact with other schools via interactive video networks--a type of distance learning. Distance learning is characterized by the use of technology to link instructors and learners who are physically apart from one another (Hughes, 1988). McClelland (1987) reported that young peopl...

This paper considers the next steps for the DigCurV project in working towards a sustainable future for vocational education and training in Digital Curation Keywords-component; DigCurV; Digital Curator Vocational Education; Europe

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...

education is an investment to improve working ability and social activities of people. in the iranian educational system, training of human resources (men or women) is done via theoretical and technical - vocational fields of study in the high schools. in fact the students’ future education and employment is ascertained by choosing the desired field of study at the end of first year of high sch...

How our culture thinks about particular events as linear, normal, and expected does not always fit with the experiences of every learner, particularly underserved urban adult learners. As adult educators in this context, are there ways we might improve or change our pedagogy of instruction by developing a better understanding of transitional life moments for vocational learners. What is the rol...

Like its predecessor, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (Perkins III) directs state and local education providers to improve vocational and technical education programs. Most of these improvements are aimed directly at changing what teachers do and what and how students learn. The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) is charged with evaluating the impact o...

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