Industrial or vocational training

This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary.

This volume discusses entrepreneurship education in Europe on the basis of in-depth case studies of related activities at twenty higher education institutions.

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement.

This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs).

This book discusses competence, teacher competence, and professional error competence of teachers, and emphasizes the need for a training programme that supports the latter.

This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate.

This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers.

This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals.

This book critically explores the use of nine recognized methodologies  for the mediation of professional learning in the context of teacher education: The story, the visual text, the case, the video, the simulation, the portfolio, lesson study, action research, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia?

This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work.

This book explores the impact on EU member states of intensified European cooperation in the field of vocational education and training.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of extant literature on competence-based vocational and professional education since the introduction of the competence concept in the 1950s.

This book takes a fresh look at professional practice and professional education.

This book provides an introduction to the philosophy of technology.

This book focuses on the importance of an ontological dimension for today's higher education, with critical attention to implications for the student experience, engagement, satisfaction, wellbeing, employability, (dis)embodiment and activism in which students take a stand on their own being and becoming.

Workplace English language training programs represent a corporate investment in language skills enhancement and human capital development.

This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education.

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date.

This book investigatesthe integration of literary writing into work based or business writing.

This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working lifecan be best conceptualized, organized and enacted.

This book explores important questions about the relationship between professional practice and learning, and implications of this for how we understand professional expertise.

This book addresses the education and training of Members of Parliament (MPs).

Drawing on decades of industrial experience, this insightful and practical guide uses case studies and an interdisciplinary perspective to explain the fundamentals of simulation training to improve performance of high-risk professional activities.

This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context.

This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and national reports on its status, as well as on reforms of various education systems.

This book presents thinking about and through transdisciplinary and professional development as an educative process.

This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work.

This volume provides a critical roadmap through the major historical sources of legal semiotics as we know them today.

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This book is about understanding the nature and application of reflection in higher education.

This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues.

This updated second edition presents an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines.

In concept and practice, public health casts a wide net, spanning assessment, intervention, and policy; education, prevention, and protection; public, private, and government entities.

This uniquely in-depth book offers a blow-by-blow account of the sometimes problematic dynamics of conducting collaborative fieldwork in ethnography.

With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate.

In this book, internationally respected scholars from the disciplines of educational science, business administration and psychology thoroughly discuss practice-related questions on learning transfer in organizations.

The body matters, in practice.

This book offers a new approach to workforce education for youth.

This book addressed teachers' necessity to be able to respond to the new needs and demands caused by an ever-evolving educational system, as recognized in the national and international policy and research literature.

This book discusses competence, teacher competence, and professional error competence of teachers, and emphasizes the need for a training programme that supports the latter.

This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia?

This book is a complete guide for students on how to make the most of intensive, experiential research outside a college classroom.