Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Higher Education is not excluded in realizing the effort of promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Hence a framework of learning should be introduced to the students which at least include elements such as lifelong learning, interdisciplinary approaches, systems thinking, partnership…

Today great attention is paid to competency based education and application of this method in entrepreneurship education at academic level as well as other educational environments (Izquierdo, 2008). current business education programs are strongly criticized for not being in accordance with the req…

In Denmark, Germany and a number of other countries Vocational Education and Training is based on the principle of dual education. This means that the apprentices spend one part of their education and training at a vocational school and another part in a company or firm directly involved in ordinary…

This study was undertaken to determine the elements of Sustainable Development in Technical and Vocational subjects and to develop the framework of sustainable Technical and Vocational subjects in secondary school in Malaysia. This research was carried out using a qualitative research method that in…

Globalization has become one of the crucial topics of discussion and concern in recent times, since it has a decisive impact upon our lives. Therefore, if we are to compete on the global stage and meet the globalization challenges successfully we need to make significant improvements in terms of max…

This paper presents an educational methodology of cooperative project-based learning. This methodology emerges in the final years of the undergraduate programme of the Technical University of Madrid. The paper focuses on the evolution of this experience up to its insertion in the European Higher Edu…

Project-based learning (PBL) is a learning approach that organizes students' learning activities around projects. This approach gives students the opportunity for detailed investigations on worthy topics and enables them to learn from the experiences and apply gained knowledge, skills and attitudes …

This study was designed to investigate the work lives of child laborers with respect to their gender and age. The test results showed that a meaningful relationship existed between working children's gender and the way they spent their income, having work accidents, the presence of noise at the work…

In recent decades, workplaces have undergone numerous changes. These changes are due to the introduction of new technologies to workplace. In this paper we report a study in the maritime vocational setting. My study reveals that the introduction of new technologies into the ship environment and auto…

The main purpose of vocational and technical education is to make the individuals gain; knowledge, ability, and practice sufficiency which are needed for particular occupation. On the other hand the main function is to make the individual provide financial income and with this be useful to society a…