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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Promoting, Assessing, Recognizing and Certifying Lifelong Learning
International Perspectives and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life. Much of this interest is driven by key social and economic imperatives...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Current Issues in Maritime Economics contains a selection of the papers presented at an international conference held in Rotterdam, June 1991. The book contains 11 papers from many world leaders in maritime economic analysis and will be of interest to shipping professsionals as well as to students...
Japan after the Economic Miracle
In Search of New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react? Contributors to this volume examine the challenges ahead for Japan in the fields of politics, economics, sociology, environment and business. This multidisciplinary...
Elaborating Professionalism
Studies in Practice and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
What are the future possibilities for the standing of professional practice as it faces growingly problematic markets for services, complex demands for managerial accountability and control, and problematic circumstances and expectations in its ethical and self-regulative governance? New sources of...
Teaching and Learning the European Union
Traditional and Innovative Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This volume examines the EU’s changing educational context and its challenges. Based on an extensive survey of more than 2000 European Studies courses in 30 European countries, it maps and analyses the features of teaching methodologies as they emerge from both disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This case book provides examples of multi-stakeholder partnerships that aim to create sustainable enterprises for both the for-profit sectors and for individuals who live in conditions of poverty. Ideal for teaching, after a brief introduction to the case method, the cases are presented as descriptions...
Administrative Passages
Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Assistant Principal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
This book makes a much needed contribution to what we know about the role and work of the assistant principal. It offers terri c insights into the different challenges one faces after being appointed assistant principal, and it provides readers with a rich array of data regarding the mental, emotional,...
Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice
Research on Innovative Learning Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Core concepts in education are changing. For example, professional performance or expertise is not uniquely the fruit of specialist knowledge acquired at professional schools, but the sum of influences exerted by a complex web of continuous learning opportunities for which an individual is well (or...
"Becoming" a Professional
an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
This book is founded on the idea that ‘becoming’ is the most useful defining concept for a new ‘professional’ class whose members understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended, lifelong process of refinement and learning.
In a world where being a ‘professional’...
Authentic Professional Learning
Making a Difference Through Learning at Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
There is considerable and growing interest in professionals learning across their working lives. The growth in this interest is likely premised upon the increasing percentage of those who are being employed under the designation as professi- als or para-professional workers in advanced industrial...
Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training
Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. Our assumption is that, as a result of quality assurance activities, practitioners obtain information about their own functioning and institutional performance...
Competence Development and Assessment in TVET (COMET)
Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The transferability of vocational education and training qualifications across international borders is a live issue in this heterogeneous field. Key to this goal is defining a common methodology for measuring vocational competences. This publication sets out a proposal for just that, based on the...
Rediscovering Apprenticeship
Research Findings of the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship (INAP)
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The rediscovery of the value of apprenticeships has been one of the most significant trends in vocational education in recent years, and has prompted an array of research and development projects in countries around the world. In this volume, the renewed interest in the apprenticeship tradition and...