Considering the key cause of climate-harming carbon emissions is the increased use of fossil fuels, we might expect research in education to engage in petrocriticism—a critical way of reading the world that deconstructs how fossil-fuelled cultural expectations and practices, or “petroculture,” funct…
Collaborative problem solving is a very important skill for pre-service teachers. Indeed, they will be called upon to solve problems daily basis and to collaborate with other members of the school team or with their students. However, the collaborative problemsolving skill remains very little docume…
If, like their counterparts in the primary and secondary sectors, vocational training teachers face significant challenges when entering the profession, their atypical career path, often paired with a lack of training in pedagogy, poses challenges for their professional life. This research was inter…
In this article we offer a comparative analysis of vocational education and training (VET) in two rural regional locations by situating the pragmatic problem of advising rural students against the backdrop of differently structured market-oriented vocational education systems in Canada and Australia…
This article is based on semi-directed interviews with migrant learners enrolled in vocational and technical programs, teachers, administrative staff of a Montreal school board and companies' internship supervisors. It analyses various factors which influence the success at school of these learners.…
Vocational education aims both to meet economic and social needs. It is expected from teachers that they adapt their pedagogy to vocational education new demands. In this context, the establishment of professional learning communities (PLCs) seems promising. The literature highlights several potenti…
In this article, I investigated the problems that educators are addressing with dual credit initiatives and consider tensions that have limited the seamless implementation of dual credit programming. Stakeholder representatives clearly identified common resources and support required to sustain thei…
Secondary-level career education, designed to prepare students for their occupational lives, generally adopts a human capital approach to learning. We critique this approach by comparing a range of career-education polices and programs with three key principles for democratic learning. We identify a…
