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Romero-Gazquez, Jose Luis; Canavate-Cruzado, Gregorio; Bueno-Delgado, Maria-Victoria – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) aims to develop a framework where the new technologies interoperate with each other and with employees, creating a smart and efficient environment. Although there are many public and private initiatives focused on boosting the deployment of I4.0 in all sectors worldwide, the adoption is slower than expected. One of the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Technology Uses in Education, Vocational Education
Lee, I-Jui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Taiwan's vocational wood-furniture schools still focus only on the traditional manual training strategy, and so students' knowledge of the furniture-manufacturing process is fragmented. Moreover, they possess limited manual skills without learning the workflows and strategies of furniture production, which is inadequate for satisfying the direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Woodworking, Computer Simulation
Beaudry, Jean-Luc; Perry, J. Adam – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
With a focus on the Western-Canadian province of Manitoba, this article aims to develop a conceptual and empirical exploration of how apprenticeship learning can be transformed to meet the needs of Indigenous apprentices. Conceptually, the article layers an articulation of decolonising education onto apprenticeship learning in such a way as to…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Apprenticeships, Indigenous Populations, Articulation (Education)
Melody Volk – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2023
Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC) is among the leading tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) for enrollment in career and technical education (CTE) programs. Since their inception over 50 years ago, tribal colleges and universities have had a strong focus on CTE, offering students a variety of opportunities to develop skillsets that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Education, Vocational Education
Lee, I.-Jui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
Furniture carpentry uses spatial structure and geometry, e.g. mortise-tenon joints, which require cognitive judgments of hidden views and spatial understanding. For the furniture carpentry novice, the idea of spatial geometry in the mortise-tenon joint is difficult to understand because furniture carpentry drawings are usually two-dimensional…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Visualization, Freehand Drawing, Furniture
Parkinson, Jean; Mackay, James; Demecheleer, Murielle – Vocations and Learning, 2018
For learners in vocational education, acquiring the specialized language of their field is important in facilitating the ability to communicate appropriately with colleagues and customers. Spoken and written discourse in a range of workplace settings has received some attention, but less attention has been given to discourse in vocational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Language Skills, Language Usage, Diaries
Okolie, Ugochukwu C.; Igwe, Paul A.; Elom, Elisha N. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019
This study examined key issues affecting the effective management of carpentry and joinery workshops for improving the quality of graduates of technical colleges in Nigeria. Drawing upon data collected through a structured questionnaire administered to 27 technical colleges teachers and 13 craft trainers, plus a focus group, this study adopts a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Workshops, Woodworking
Olabiyi, Oladiran S.; Awofala, Adeneye O. A. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2019
This study explored the aftermath of co-operative learning strategy on senior secondary school students' achievement in woodwork technology in Nigeria within the scheme of the pre-test, post-test non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design. Three null hypotheses and three research questions guided the study in which the experimental…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies, Woodworking, Foreign Countries
Coppi, Alessia Eletta; Cattaneo, Alberto; Gurtner, Jean-Luc – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Context: Discovering visual languages across professions is a complex task since it entails discovering a communication system composed of information in image or textual form called representations and also including various kinds of annotations such as notes. Such a task has been previously scarcely considered within research, and basically only…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Visualization, Visual Aids, Occupations
Vaughan, Karen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
As a learning model, apprenticeship is well known for its capacity to develop skills and vocational identities. It is also increasingly appealing for its potential to develop soft skills and enhance dispositions. This article focuses on the nature and role of apprenticeship and employers in developing dispositions and soft skills. It draws on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Skill Development, Personality Traits
Tønder, Anna Hagen; Aspøy, Tove Mogstad – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2017
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. The standard model in vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Training, Secondary Education
Laine, Kati; Hämäläinen, Raija – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
There is a growing demand to enhance entrepreneurship. This study aims at producing knowledge that can assist teachers in designing and supporting collaborative learning of entrepreneurship in vocational education. A qualitative case study approach was adopted. The outcome of this study provides a better understanding of the factors that hinder…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Cooperative Learning, Entrepreneurship
Buchanan, John; Raffaele, Catherine; Glozier, Nick; Kanagaratnam, Aran – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
This research focused on how apprenticeships, at their best, provide extensive social support for young people. It draws on, and contributes to, debates about workforce (and especially vocational) development in contemporary Australia. It also contributes to the growing literature on social support and health, especially the role that work could…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Woodworking, Mentors
Parkinson, Jean; Mackay, James – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Prior studies indicate that vocational students' literacy practices are more demanding than is generally recognised. Employing a view of literacy acquisition as socialisation, we investigated the literacy practices of trades training in Carpentry and Automotive Technology, by interviewing tutors and examined course books and student writing. A…
Descriptors: Woodworking, Educational Practices, Vocational Education, Auto Mechanics
Ehrich, Lisa C.; Delahaye, Brian L. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2009
The research reported in this study concerns older adults from Australia who voluntarily chose to learn the craft of woodturning. Semi-structured interviews and a survey questionnaire were distributed to members of a woodturning club to explore their motivations and the processes by which they learned how to woodturn. The findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Semi Structured Interviews, Vocational Education