Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
Changes being made to vocational education and training (VET) in Australia to enable industry to be more internationally competitive include making training more responsive to industry and client needs, delivering work skills to specific industry standards, making entry level training more flexible …
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
This article provides a detailed and accessible account of the contemporary structure of the German system for vocational education and training and of some of the main issues and concerns causing current stresses within it. First, we outline the so-called dual system for initial vocational training…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
1996 marked the tenth anniversary of the Review of Vocational Qualifications undertaken by Oscar de Ville (now Sir Oscar) and the setting-up of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ), of which he was the first Chairman. National Vocational Qualifications and Scottish Vocational Qu…
Knowledge for solving problems must be related to conditions and attainable goals which represent the functions of such knowledge. In an experiment structurally varied learning tasks were used. Their effects on conditionalizing and functionalizing rule knowledge of car mechanics in a domain of techn…
Source:Research in Post-Compulsory Education
(1997)
The article explores leftist ethnography and its relation to educative research. It sees educative research as tied to understandings of the reflective practitioner, and explores models of research that validate and prioritise teacherpractice. It points towards a number of tensions surrounding such …
Hairdressing (n = 169) and nursing apprentices (n = 255) have been included in a prospective follow-up study in the region of East Thuringia. Startingin 8/92, the apprentices have been interviewed and examined in a standardized way rignt at the beginning of their vocational training, after half a ye…
Source:Journal of European Industrial Training
(1997)
Provides an overview of the research undertaken through the EU Leonardo EUROPROF project. Describes the aims of the project and outlines the methodologies undertaken in the work. Surveys the development of vocational education and training (VET) in Europe over the past two decades in relation to cha…
Source:Journal of European Industrial Training
(1997)
Discusses the problem of “creating” a vocational education and training profession in Europe. In approaching the problem, national and cultural differences of vocational education and training must be recognized. Typical ways of comparing and analysing them may, however, be limited for reflecting on…
