Research on invention education involving adolescents appears infrequently. The study reported in this article involves an evaluation of an intensive, case-based summer program on invention and design that students completed the previous year. Data gathered through qualitative methods were categoriz…
The purpose of this study was to determine if work ethic differed for a sample of 152 selected 9th-grade students categorized by risk of school failure and by gender. Work ethic attributes were measured using the Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (Petty, 1993). Results of a two-way multivariate anal…
This paper1 notes the apparent ineffectiveness of the critical response to competence-based education and training (CBET) and suggests that this results from a failure to correctly isolate CBET's unique, identifying features. It is argued that the prevailing tendency to identify CBET with 'competenc…
The importance of hospitality management education has been recognized all over the world for many years. Formal education plays a crucial role in the provision of skilled and competent human resources. Traditional tourism destination countries like Greece have developed tertiary hospitality educati…
Responding to national and local initiatives, the career development profession has been engaged in efforts to aid understanding and facilitation of the school-to-work (STW) transition process. Vocational theory has been cited as one especially important area in which the career development field ca…
The University for Industry (UfI) is set to become the chief vehicle and change mechanism for the government's new policies for vocational education and training (VET) and lifelong learning. A principal target and priority for the UfI will be the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, which…
University adult education, with its roots in the Victorian reform of the ancient universities, was conceived and consumed as a political project and, until the present generation, has always carried progressive political connotations. This article surveys its history by examining four different pha…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1999)
A broad consensus has emerged in Scotland of the need to invest in the expansion of post-16 education and training. This renewed interest in Lifelong Learning has, however, become increasingly associated with expanding student numbers in full-time tertiary education. In this article, it is argued th…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1999)
The purpose of this article is to present current international and national understandings of competence, and to present research examples which are relevant to vocational education. The article presents ‘competence’ as a critical field for research and practice in vocational education, and argues …
