Industrial or vocational training

This volume provides alternatives for tackling existing empirical, methodological, and analytical challenges.

This book showcases how the latest and most advanced types of analytical modeling and empirical analysis can help to create value in the global supply chain.

This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept.

This book is a guide for mentors on how to recruit, mentor, and support students through a student research experience in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields.

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

The situation for career counselors today is particularly complex.

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.

This book offers unique insights into the impact of the rise of a managerialist culture in Further Adult and Vocational Education (FAVE) in England.

The intention of this book is to demonstrate that curriculum design is a profoundly philosophical exercise that stems from perceptions of the mission of higher education.

All educators bring to their work preconceived ideas of what the curriculum should be and how students learn.

As long as humans have existed on the planet, they have looked at the world around them and wondered about much of what they saw.

The thrill of discovery and the excitement of innovation mean that research is often immensely satisfying.

Many of us have implemented oral communication instruction in our design courses, lab courses, and other courses where students give presentations.

Computer science faces a continuing crisis in the lack of females pursuing and succeeding in the field.

This handbook accelerates the development of analytical writing skills for high school students, students in higher education, and working professionals in a broad range of careers.

Introduction to Engineering Design is a practical, straightforward workbook designed to systematize the often messy process of designing solutions to open-ended problems.

This book is aimed to help instructional designers, science game designers, science faculty, lab designers, and content developers in designing interactive learning experiences using emerging technologies and cyberlearning.

As the existence of all life forms on our planet is currently in grave danger from the climate emergency caused by Homo sapiens, the words "e;sustainability"e; and "e;eco-responsibility"e; have entered the daily-use vocabularies of scientists, engineers, economists, business managers, industrialists, capitalists, and policy makers.

While more and more undergraduate engineering programs are moving toward a multi-disciplinary capstone experience, there remains a need for a suitable textbook.

This book presents a comprehensive optimization-based theory and framework that exploits the synergistic interactions and tradeoffs between process design and operational decisions that span different time scales.

Blending physics with the study of ancient Chinese science, technology, and culture is a unique and highly effective way to present the fundamentals of physics to non-science majors.

The characterization of cultural heritage objects becomes increasingly important for conservation, restoration, dating, and authentication purposes.

This book focuses on a forensics-style re-examination of several historical events.

There is only a very limited number of physical systems that can be exactly described in terms of simple analytic functions.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology, the application of the research-based nanoscale science, have changed significantly over the last three and a half decades.

Undergraduate and first-year graduate students engaging in engineering research need more than technical skills and tools to be successful.

The theory of electromagnetic beams is presented in a simple and physical way, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.

History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and experiences, and formed a collective for mutual support.

A brief overview of astronomy and cosmology is presented in five different ways, through the lenses of space, time, evolution, process, and structure.

This book presents classical relativistic mechanics and electrodynamics in the Feynman-Stueckelberg event-oriented framework formalized by Horwitz and Piron.

This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration.

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 includes a range of empirical-based international contributions by the global community of teacher educators and related researchers on the Further Education/post-compulsory, vocational/occupational and lifelong learning sector.

Education needs new ways to prepare individuals and societies for the multitude of changing challenges in the twenty-first century.

This textbook evolves from the intersection between 'Research', 'Educational Information Technologies' and recent 'Best Practices'.

The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work.

This book offers various ways in which analyzing professional experience and activity in simulation training makes it possible to describe practice-based learning affordances and processes.

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

This IAMSE Manual describes how to use rubrics in higher education, especially in the highly specialized health sciences education setting.

This IAMSE Manual, Mentoring Across the Continuum, is a product of its co-editors' and authors' lifetime work in mentoring faculty and studying the impact of this mentoring.

Since the early 1990s there has been a persistent drive towards professionalising the education sector, with a particular focus on those responsible for teaching the post-fourteen age group.

This is an introductory text designed to provide medical teachers with a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts of effective teaching practice.

The central assumption that guides this book is that research and practice about learning at the workplace has recently lost its critical edge.

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century.

This book invites readers to explore how fourteen different experts in their respective fields create deeper meaning in their profession and work with students through thinking, in multiple ways, about the self who teaches, the self who learns, and the ways in which these selves interact within the academy.

This second volume of Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Experiential Learning (Palgrave, 2020) contains a new collection of experiential learning (EL) reflections, case studies, and strategies written by twenty-eight authors across sixteen academic disciplines.

This handbook provides a global overview of the design, implementation and assessment of academic development centers within higher education institutions.

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.

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