Gender differences should be considered in vocational high schools so women and men can develop their potentials without being inhibited by gender bias. Gender mainstreaming in vocational high schools is a strategy to integrate gender differences at all stages in teaching-learning process for achieving gender equality and equity. This research evaluates the implementation of gender mainstreamin...

This article reports the results of a national survey on the practices of state vocational rehabilitation agencies with regard to purchase and utilization of psychological consultation services from private psychologists. A letter was sent to each of the 5(:' state vocational rehabilitation agencies requesting information on nine points. Forty-four states responded. While it is common procedure...

Serious games have proven to be a useful instrument to engage learners and increase motivation. Nevertheless, a broadly accepted, practical instructional design approach to serious games does not exist. In this paper, we introduce the use of an instructional design model that has not been applied to serious games yet, and has some advantages compared to other design approaches. We present the c...

In this paper we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally decide whether to obtain concept-based “general” education or specialized, skill-speciÞc “vocational” education. The advantage of obtaining general education — a reduction in the loss of a worker’s task-speciÞc productivity when new a technology is incorporated into production — has to be t...

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Nowadays in the light of technological, economical and social changes, the problems of overall occupation of people and continuous growth of economy become more important and complex. Continuous development of people’s knowledge and skills, investment in education and vocational training are the main factors stimulating the economical and social development of the state. This paper analysis the...