Adult Education and Globally Engaged Trainers: The Case of Vocational Training Institutes
Globalization provides access to people, services, goods, ideas, beliefs and values in a new way and poses fundamental challenges for all areas of education in every country. Education on global issues is a process of individual and collective growth which allows for transformation and self-transformation. In this vein, this quantitative study seeks to
Zoe Karanikola, Georgios Panagiotopoulos
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Assessment of Prior Learning in Adult Vocational Education and Training
The article deals about the results of a study of school-based Assessment of Prior Learning of adults who have enrolled as students in a VET college in order to qualify for occupations as skilled workers. Based on examples of VET teachers’ methods for assessing the students’ prior learning in the programs for gastronomes, respectively child care ...
Aarkrog, Vibe, Wahlgren, Bjarne
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Context: Aiming at gaining knowledge about students' thoughts and actions in deciding to stay in or drop out of an educational programme, an empirical study was conducted on dropout among 18-24-year-old students in VET and basic general adult learning.
Aarkrog, Vibe+4 more
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Policy transfer in vocational education and training and adult education [PDF]
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Barabasch, Antje+2 more
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Reconstructing policy transfer in adult and vocational education and training [PDF]
The article contributes to the understanding of educational policy transfer with a particular focus on VET and labour-market related training. A review of VET policy transfer literature is followed by a description of travelling VET reforms in adult and vocational education and training around the globe.
Barabasch, Antje+2 more
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Learning is not static but dynamic and it is not restricted to an externally imposed direction of learning. Thus, helping an individual to actualize self-direction in learning is a potential model for enhancing information literacy skills and learning outcomes.
Theresa Chinyere Ogbuanya+2 more
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DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS ` PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN THEORETICAL TRAINING OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF ADULT EDUCATION [PDF]
The article highlights the problems of developing the professional competence of teachers of vocational education and training. After all, the teachers` professional competence is the main determinant in the training of a competitively capable, socially mature, and hardworking employee, a citizen of Ukraine.
Liudmyla Shevchuk
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Special Issue: Policy Transfer in vocational education and training and adult education
Guest Editors: Antje Barabasch, Sandra Bohlinger and Stefan ...
Barabasch, Antje+2 more
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Governing policy expansion in a collective skill formation system: the case of vocational education and training for adults in Switzerland [PDF]
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When Work Comes First: Young Adults in Vocational Education and Training in Norway
Since reforms implemented in 1994, vocational education and training (VET) in Norway has been integrated and standardized as part of upper-secondary education. When young people enter upper-secondary education at the age of 15 or 16, they can choose either a vocational programme or a general academic programme.
Tønder, Anna Hagen+1 more
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