Careers guidance

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over.

Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology.

The breakneck speed of change in today's societies creates enormous challenges for educational institutions at all levels.

This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research.

Educators in the professions have always had unique demands placed upon them.

Effective knowing and learning for vocational purposes must take account of the wide range of variables that impact on knowledge formation and that promote learning.

This book is founded on the idea that 'becoming' is the most useful defining concept for a new 'professional' class whose members understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended, lifelong process of refinement and learning.

This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices.

Since 2005 a dozen states and more than 15 specialties have reported a physician shortage or anticipate one in the next few years.

Advances in Business Education & Training is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training.

This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century.

The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congruence and a positive synergy among the intended and formal preparation of professionals, that tacit learning occurs within the hidden curriculum, and that the subsequent demands, both formal and tacit, are embedded in subsequent workplace settings.

With labour markets across the world and even in social democratic Europe in a state of unprecedented flux, this exhaustive study addresses the problem of how to balance job market demands, personal career interests and private life becomes a central issue for millions of employees.

Students entering higher education expect their studies to lead them towards some specific form of professional career.

The world is full of possibilities.

In this book we respond to a higher education environment that is on the verge of profound changes by imagining an evolving and agile problem-based learning ecology for learning.

Are you keen to transform your career?

How do you succeed in creating a fast-tracked career?

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency - a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation.

Looking for the career of your choice and don t want to take the beaten path?

This book is about understanding equations of relationships with the help of Vedic Astrology.

Astrology nowadays is universally recognised as a science, based on sound mathematical principles and calculations.

Tajikistan and other countries in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, are striving to align technical and vocational education and training (TVET) with their economic realities.

New and emerging technologies under Industry 4.

This publication documents the process and materials needed to conduct interventions supporting the transition to local government-led community-driven development in the Philippines.

This independent tracer study examines Sri Lanka's Skills Sector Development Program, which the Asian Development Bank supported through results-based lending.

This publication presents data visualization of economic statistics from South and Central Asia relevant for the analysis of cross-border production arrangements at the local, regional, and global levels.

This publication presents data visualization of economic statistics from Southeastern Asia and the Pacific relevant for the analysis of cross-border production arrangements at the local, regional, and global levels.

This publication presents data visualization of economic statistics from Eastern Asia relevant for the analysis of cross-border production arrangements at the local, regional, and global levels.

This guidebook helps ensure that community training investments are optimized and yield the desired results.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been issuing its Sustainability Report since 2007.

This publication reports the results of an exploratory study on civil society organization (CSO) engagement---particularly nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs)---in Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations.

Rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT) continue to create tremendous opportunities for economic and social gains in the world's poorest areas.

A well-coordinated adult learning system will be essential to support the achievement of Slovenia's long-term development goals.

Migration has been at the centre of political debate across the OECD in recent years.

Raising skills is critical to Portugal's economic success and social well-being.

How did the transition from compulsory education to work change during the 1990s and which types of transition policies worked best?

In Korea's dynamic labour market, job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over the course of their working lives.

OECD countries are attaching rising importance to lifelong learning and active employment policies as tools of economic growth and social equity.

During the 1990s, the workplace was rediscovered as a rich source of learning.

Given the emphasis on transforming professional work through the adoption of enquiry-based and trans-disciplinary approaches to service development, there is an urgent need for those involved in professional education to develop a robust understanding of how changes in practice occur.

Professionals deal with complex problems which require working with the expertise of others, but being able to collaborate resourcefully with others is an additional form of expertise.

There is considerable and growing interest in professionals learning across their working lives.

A curious ambiguity surrounds errors in professional working contexts: they must be avoided in case they lead to adverse (and potentially disastrous) results, yet they also hold the key to improving our knowledge and procedures.

In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings.

Action leadership is a creative, innovative, collaborative and self-developed way to lead.

This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations.

Practice-based learning-the kind of education that comes from experiencing real work in real situations-has always been a prerequisite to qualification in professions such as medicine.