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Moore, Lesley J. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on examples of the perceived tensions of the healthcare work-based learners as they experienced paradigm shifts in both practice and education. Design/methodology/approach: Examples are drawn from a qualitative study to examine work-based learning (WBL) workshops in a Dutch healthcare setting, and a developmental…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Work Environment
Coetzer, Alan – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to contribute to an understanding of how diverse groups of employees perceive their workplaces as learning environments, and to cast light on the learning processes of these diverse groups of employees. Design/methodology/approach: This study was designed to examine employee perceptions of: the extent to…
Descriptors: Employees, Informal Education, Tenure, Employee Attitudes
Corney, Tim; Broadbent, Robyn – Youth Studies Australia, 2007
The development of a national youth work training package in Australia began over 15 years ago. The current package sits under the umbrella of the general Community Services Industry Training Package. The first stage of a review of this package has been completed and the subsequent report not only confirms the recent trend towards the…
Descriptors: Community Services, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Youth Programs
Charness, Neil; Czaja, Sara J. – AARP, 2006
This AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper seeks to (1) summarize what is currently known about an important aspect of work and employment, namely training and retraining, that involves the ability of older adults to learn new skills and adapt to new environments; (2) highlight issues and questions that need to be addressed to promote healthy…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Older Workers, Employment Potential, Ability
Illeris, Knud – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
This article is a combined result of a three years research project on low-skilled learners' experiences as participants of various kinds of adult training and education in Denmark, and the findings of a three years research consortium on workplace learning, summing up and generalizing our various findings as to how low-skilled adults function in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Students, Adult Learning
Tek Aik, Chong; Tway, Duane C. – Performance Improvement, 2006
Andragogy is the art and science of adult education that focuses on real-life application and problem-solving capacity (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 1998). This approach emphasizes that training effectiveness is enhanced through trainees' actual performance of the task. Workers learn better when they perceive that learning will help them perform…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Andragogy, Vocational Education, Constructivism (Learning)
Basargin, V.; Khridina, N. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The prospects of world economic development are determined by the character of countries' transition to the new stage of development of productive forces: from industrial production, which was dominated by large-scale mechanized machine-driven production, to postindustrial production, which will be dominated by nonmaterial production--the sphere…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Economic Development, Human Capital
Bernard, Rosalie – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2006
This article features Ohio's Miami Valley Career Technology Center. The author discusses how MVCTC is connecting secondary education with apprenticeship and postsecondary training. MVCTC needed support from its partners in both non-union and union companies to get the school to apprenticeship program under way. The Associated Builders and…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Apprenticeships, Postsecondary Education, Technical Education
Floria, Tom; Brackin, Anita – Community College Journal of Research & Practice, 2006
Arkansas Northeastern College, formerly Mississippi County Community College, has been in the business of providing training in the Northeast Arkansas region for over 15 years. Prior to 1996, adjunct trainers or faculty provided the training. In 1996, Mississippi County Community College's (MCCC) training director, Robin Myers (now president of…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship
Corley, Aileen; Eades, Elaine – International Journal of Training and Development, 2006
This article argues that discourse analysis can be utilized in conjunction with other forms of analysis to develop a more critical teaching and research agenda for Human Resource Development (HRD); in particular this article suggests that the introduction of a discourse analysis perspective can support and facilitate the development of critically…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Reflective Teaching, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
Stroud, Dean; Fairbrother, Peter – Journal of Education and Work, 2006
The focus in recent studies of workplace learning has been on "communities of practice" and the ways that learning is shaped by such communities. In the process, there has been a downplaying of the importance of broader institutional arrangements, including the impact of organisational structures and management practice, as well as…
Descriptors: Industry, Vocational Education, On the Job Training, Industrial Structure
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2008
This paper proposes a new bipartisan initiative to strengthen the effectiveness of U.S. social programs by focusing funds within each program on research-proven projects, practices, and strategies ("interventions"). The proposal seeks neither an increase nor decrease in overall program funding; rather, its central aim is to maximize the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Crime Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Budgeting
Collier, Pam; King, Sharijn; Lawrence, Kate; Nangala, Irene; Nangala, Marilyn; Schaber, Evelyn; Young, Metta; Guenther, John; Oster, John – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
As part of a project funded by the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research (NCVER) and the Desert Knowledge CRC (DKCRC), the "Growing the desert" research team have conducted a broad-ranging analysis of the role of formal and non-formal training opportunities that lead to employment and enterprise opportunities in the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Innovation
Marr, Beth; Hagston, Jan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
The use, learning and transfer of workplace numeracy skills, as well as current understandings of the term numeracy, are examined in this study. It also highlights the importance of numeracy as an essential workplace skill. The report challenges the training system and training organisations to provide numeracy training which makes links directly…
Descriptors: Computation, Measurement, Numeracy, Mathematical Concepts
Sass, Sharon A.; Pedersen, Ginger L.; Truman, Grace H. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Palm Beach Community College realigned its curriculum to allow students to seamlessly process through career pathways. Students can start in clock-hour-based instruction and transfer that learning into credit-based associate in science degrees. Along this pathway, students can use exit points to employment with recognized certificates.
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Career Development