Modifying Vocational Maturity in Adults with Delayed Career Development: A Life Skills Approach

Reconceptualising the vocational rehabilitation process using a career development approach

A life course approach to the development of mental skills.

A wide variety of factors across the life course jointly influence cognitive and emotional development. Indeed, research from a variety of disciplines strongly suggests that cognition and mental health are intertwined across the life course, by their common antecedents and underlying physiology in development and in their interplay across adult and later life. We suggest that cognitive and soci...

Career maturity: a priority for secondary education

Pre-vocational Skills Laboratory: Development and Investigation of a Web-based Environment for Students with Autism

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in educating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a dynamic field linking both special education and learning technologies research areas. This paper reports on the design and development of Pre-Vocational Skills Laboratory, a Web-based learning environment aiming to support students with ASD towards developing pre-vocationa...

Teaching in vocational education as a second career

Background: This study investigates the determinants of career change for individuals who change their job to become a teacher in vocational education and training (VET) as a second career. The question of what motivates individuals to forfeit their original occupation to become a teacher is important for policy making not only in times of teacher shortages but also in light of the quality of i...