This book provides an integrated treatment of the relationship between political economy and vocational education at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
A highly practical guide for new instructors teaching in any setting Regardless of the context, teaching is a tall task and for those teaching adults, unique challenges await.
This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.
Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology provides current and future IDT professionals with a clear picture of current and future developments in the field that are likely to impact their careers and the organizations they work for.
Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Classroom is a totally practical, hands-on guide to using ICT in and around the classroom for all secondary school teachers and lecturers in post-compulsory education.
It is vital that we decolonise community education and development - learning from the past in order to challenge current discrimination and oppression more effectively.
Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching.
With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long-neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools.
In dem vorliegenden Sammelband werden wesentliche Forschungsergebnisse aus qualitativen und quantitativen Studien eines Forschungsprojekts zu berufsbegleitendem Studieren und zu lebenslangem Lernen veröffentlicht.
Lifelong Education: A Psychological Analysis presents an analysis of some of the major theoretical assumptions of lifelong education within the context of its psychological basis.
Vocational Education in the Nordic Countries: The Historical Evolution is the first of two books that disseminate new and systematic knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of vocational education and training (VET) in four Nordic countries.
Designed for those working with widening participation students, this key guide provides all of the information needed to support learners from widening participation backgrounds and ensure fair admission to university can be effectively delivered.
Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum.
Das Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) ist einer der führenden Anbieter postgradualer Weiterbildung in Deutschland mit langjähriger Erfahrung in der Entwicklung und Gestaltung akademischer Angebote eines angeleiteten Selbststudiums.
Teaching Psychology 14-19 - first published as Teaching Post-16 Psychology - is a core text for all training psychology teachers, as well as experienced teachers engaged in further study and professional development.
Die Dissertation basiert auf der These, dass die Aus- und Weiterbildung der Einsatzkräfte von Polizei, Feuerwehr, Rettungsdiensten und Bundeswehr stärker ressortübergreifend konzipiert werden sollte.
This book describes the theory, methods, and contemporary applications of consultee-centered consultation, a non-hierarchical, non-prescriptive helping relationship between a consultant and a person or group (consultee) seeking professional help with a client.
This book provides clear guidance on how to approach initial teaching experience, how to plan effective sessions, how to work well with your mentor and how to make the most out of your new career.
In this book, the basic conditions for local learning are described using the example of two regions in Styria and related to demographic and spatial factors.
This book explores various frameworks within which post-school education is situated and the practice that actually happens in classrooms and lecture theatres, especially when things go wrong.
Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning - this book develops a new way of understanding educational improvement, one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn.
Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead students to deep understanding of content.
This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment.
Teachers and Teaching in Vocational and Professional Education introduces a critical understanding of how teachers deliver occupational or vocational courses at various academic levels.
If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape.
Das Alter wird heute immer mehr zu einer Lebensphase, die aktiv gestaltet werden will: Viele ältere Menschen weisen ein erhebliches kulturelles, soziales und politisches Aktivitätsniveau auf, gleichzeitig bleiben soziale Ungleichheiten in der nachberuflichen Lebensphase bestehen.
A Turning Point for Literacy: Adult Education for Development, The Spirit and Declaration of Persepolis contains the proceedings of the International Symposium for Literacy, held at Persepolis, Iran in September 1975.
This book discusses the current state of the art in research on the education and learning of adults, and how such research has been transformed through contemporary policy and research practices.
Gerade die Zunahme von Kontingenzen und damit einhergehend die Zunahme reflexiver Entscheidungssituationen gilt als strukturelles Merkmal gegenwärtiger gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse.
Supporting the Workplace Learning of Vocational and Further Education Teachers is written to help people understand the arrangements in a workplace that enable and constrain teacher learning - and then to do something about it.
Im Zuge von Migration, Europäisierung und Globalisierung ist kulturelle Differenz zu einer Bedingung organisationaler Praxis geworden, die als Aufgabe und Ressource organisationaler und individueller Entwicklung bzw.
Der Band macht die Bedingungen von Erwachsenenbildung in Österreich sichtbar, um ein bedarfsgerechtes, leistbares und von allen Menschen wahrnehmbares Weiterbildungsangebot sicher zu stellen.
