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Amiet, D.; Choate, J.; Hoskin, J.; Dart, J. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Career development is an essential component of graduate employability, particularly for students undertaking degree programs that are not aligned to a specific vocational outcome. For undergraduate career development to be effective, it should be embedded into the curriculum and involve the academic teaching staff. This approach enhances the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Health Sciences
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Stern, Ludmila; Liu, Xin – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Legal and court interpreters require advanced professional skills to perform their demanding tasks. How well does Australia prepare interpreters to fulfil the linguistic needs of its numerous communities, including 'established' migrant, indigenous, 'new and emerging' and deaf, in a variety of legal settings? Based on the online data and…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages, Court Litigation
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Rata, Elizabeth; McPhail, Graham; Barrett, Brian – Curriculum Journal, 2019
The article discusses the link between a curriculum based on academic subjects derived from disciplinary knowledge and a progressive pedagogy that endeavours to engage students from all backgrounds with it. Section 1 describes the realist theory of knowledge which justifies the argument for this accommodation between curriculum and pedagogy.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Academic Education, Educational Theories
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Zipin, Lew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
Among social justice efforts to make curriculum more engaging and achieving for "less advantaged" learners, the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach, as developed by Moll, Gonzalez and associates (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 1992), offers sound conception and a track-record. The Redesigning…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Influences
Maggs, Alex; Moore, Joseph – Exceptional Child, 1978
One-hundred seven Australian children, with learning problems, ages 5 to 12 years, (60 Aboriginal), were studied to identify and remediate their learning difficulties. (PHR)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
New South Wales Dept. of Corrective Services, Sydney (Australia). – 1995
This document contains learning modules for adult basic education courses in Australia, along with teacher information for integrating curricula, using integrated themes, and planning curricula. The learning modules contain learning activities in the following areas: job search skills; occupational health and safety; life skills; ceramics;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Art Activities
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment