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Geng Wang – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
While enjoying the respect and prestige in some countries, in others, despite being a significant educational sector, vocational education continues to suffer from low status and negative societal sentiments. Vocational education in China has been positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, absorbing the 'left-over' students with 'less…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Confucianism, Blue Collar Occupations
Erik Regalado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Objective: Describe the learning activities that occupational therapy students found helpful for learning the concept of occupation and describe what students know about the concept of occupation. Design: Descriptive correlational. Setting: Occupational therapy program in the U.S. Participants: Occupational therapy students. Measure: Survey.…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel
European Training Foundation, 2024
Since 2020, the ETF has conducted multiple studies ('Future of Skills' studies) to examine how various drivers of change -- both technological and non-technological -- are affecting occupations and related skill needs in selected sectors and countries, and how education and training systems are adapting to these evolving needs. This has led to…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Foreign Countries, Occupations
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Terah J. Stewart; Olivia Snow; Chris Linder – New Directions for Higher Education, 2024
Within scholarship and public discourse, the concepts sex work and sexual violence are often conflated. More specifically, sex work is specifically framed as sexual violence that relies on a prevalent oppression paradigm analytic with respect to erotic labor(ers). This necessarily impacts research and scholarship on sex workers, and it informs the…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Sexuality, Occupations
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Helena Corrales-Herrero; Beatriz Rodríguez-Prado – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The progressive robotisation and the introduction of artificial intelligence imply economic and social changes. In this paper, we investigate their impact on the occupations of recent Spanish graduates and examine how graduates with different skills can expect their occupations to be transformed by the digital era. To this end --using a three-step…
Descriptors: Occupations, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence
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Carola Blazquez; Víctor Cantillo; Lucy García – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Identifying factors influencing career preferences is relevant for faculty, education planners, and authorities when designing educational policies. However, these factors vary according to the socioeconomic context. We estimate a discrete choice model to investigate the determinants of career preferences using a survey of high school students (n…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Student Attitudes, High School Students
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David Guile; Clay Spinuzzi – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Situated and Activity theories have exercised a significant influence in the field of vocational learning for some considerable time, both sharing a focus on bounded forms of work and forms of learning that facilitate learning in, or to changes to, bounded forms of work. Yet much learning occurs in unbounded contexts often referred to as…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperation, Evaluation Methods, Occupations
Shiyan Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation focuses on the structures and impacts of digital skills in the rapidly transforming labor market. It is rooted in the premise that understanding the value of digital skills requires a relational perspective, acknowledging that these competencies are not isolated, but form complex structures across different occupations. The…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Skill Development, Job Skills, Occupations
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Silke Fischer; Antje Barabasch – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Today, creativity is considered a success factor in many occupational fields and a core competence of the 21st century. In vocational education and training (VET), creativity is defined as problem-solving ability and ascribed to the transversal competences. Creativity is always context-dependent in terms of the work environment and specific…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Creativity, Occupations, Job Skills
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2024
The "Improving the Pipeline for Tennessee's Workforce: Academic Supply for Occupational Demand Report" is a joint report between the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC), Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD), Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD), and Tennessee Department of…
Descriptors: Labor Supply, Occupations, Alignment (Education), Partnerships in Education
Emma Tsurkov – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this paper, I lay the foundation for a broader discussion of the impact of sexual harassment on the gender composition of college majors. First, I focus on the rates of sexual harassment experienced by different groups of students and how these disparities can be understood through the framework of intersectionality. In the next paper, I will…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, College Students, Student Characteristics, Gender Issues
Brett William Fedor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Contemporary research pertaining to the experiences of flow in education is scarce and that which does exist in the literature often focused on the teacher-student relationship. The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological approach (IPA) study was to examine the lived experiences of secondary school counselors as related to…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Secondary Education, Phenomenology, Burnout
Amanda L. Sohl – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advising students on college admissions and financial aid is an important pillar of most high school counseling programs. This work has become more challenging for many school counselors since the pandemic, so it is imperative to find new ways to explore how counselors approach college advising today. This novel research utilized Hansen's (1995)…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counseling Techniques, High School Students, College Choice
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Hamid Asghari – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This study focuses on the stories of four newly arrived women and their choices of vocational education and profession. The study highlights the women's life courses and addresses how their vocational skills from their home countries can influence their choices of vocational education and profession, and how these skills are utilised in Sweden.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Vocational Education, Occupations
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Hwewon Kim; Tae-Im Han – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study explores South Korean kindergarteners' drawings on gender ideals in order to understand how they perceive the ideal man and woman with respect to gender. The data were collected based on drawings and interviews of 189 children aged 5-6 years in South Korea. The researchers identified themes using qualitative content analysis. Overall,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Freehand Drawing, Sex Stereotypes
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