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Direct linkThorpe, Anthony; Burns, Eila – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
This article explores the topic of diversity in the teaching workforce though the enactment of policy concentrating on teachers with dyslexia within the Further/Vocational Education and Training sectors of England and Finland. Two research projects from Finland and England focusing, respectively, on individual teachers' perspectives and managers'…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Employee Attitudes
Download full textBecker, Franklin; Quinn, Kristen L.; Rappaport, Andrew J.; Sims, William R. – 1994
This document reports a study that examined implementation processes for new workplace practices--nonterritorial offices--in five international organizations in four countries. The organizations are IBM and Ernst & Young in the United Kingdom; Digital Equipment's Natural Office in Sweden; SOL Cleaning Company headquarters in Finland; and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
1999
These four papers are from a symposium on evaluation in human resource development (HRD). "Assessing Organizational Readiness for Learning through Evaluative Inquiry" (Hallie Preskill, Rosalie T. Torres) reviews how evaluative inquiry can facilitate organizational learning; argues HRD evaluation should be reconceptualized as a process…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Harney, Klaus, Ed.; Heikkinen, Anja, Ed.; Rahn, Sylvia, Ed.; Schemmann, Michael, Ed. – 2002
These 17 articles on different subjects of the broader theme "lifelong learning" represent the latest results of the discussions of the Vocational Education and Culture Research Network. An introduction (Klaus Harney et al.) provides summaries of the contents. The articles are "The Global and International Discourse of Lifelong…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Tikkanen, Tarja; Lahn, Leif Christian; Withnall, Alexandra; Ward, Peter; Lyng, Kolbein – 2002
WORKTOW was a multidisciplinary action research project carried out in 27 small and medium-sized enterprises in the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway. The main focus was on the learning of workers aged 45 and older. In-depth case studies were conducted in all three countries involving a range of learning interventions. Results showed age was not…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Differences
