Early adolescence is a time of burgeoning independence, autonomy, and focus on peers. It is also a time when individual interests, skills, and preferences become salient to young people. Not surprisingly, out-of-school programs designed to capture the interest of early teens are diverse in focus and varied in structure, ranging from sports teams to drop-in recreation centers, from museum appren...

Barriers and opportunities associated with professionals are considered. Practical possibilities for increasing the understanding and implementation of process improvement are discussed, including the use of webinars, possibly with open badges to record and encourage participation. The use of MOOCs, potentially leading to on-line assessed qualifications, could increase the number of practitione...

This study's aim was to assess the perceptions of welding apprentices concerning welding fumes being associated with respiratory and cardiovascular disorders and assess the implementation of risk communication as a primary prevention tool in the welding training process. This quasi-experimental, non-randomized study with before-and-after design was conducted with 84 welding apprentices in South...

There is renewed interest in the institution of apprenticeship 1 The most obvious one is that a a number of reasons for the ng number of governments (the USA and in the European Union) are trying to strengthen the skill base of their future work force by establishing a new form of apprenticeship that fulfils some of the functions of traditional craft apprenticeships but takes into account their...

<p><em>V</em><em>ocational education has a very important role in the national system to create quality workforce. One of programs increase absorption SMK graduates industry is existence partnership program between SMKs and Business Industrial World (DUDI). Based on 19 articles published 2018-2022 concerning partnerships DUDI, several models have been established, includ...

The low vocational competence of teachers has become an essential issue in the last few decades. This problem is due to lack actual work experience industry for teachers. One skills improvement programs that are considered adequate industrial apprenticeship program. Many studies discuss apprenticeships, but there still limited examine effective improve pre-service at automotive engineering Voca...

For a long time, local craft traditions were passed on through apprenticeships. Consequently, new generations of designers and industries cannot easily intervene or produce designs. This inability to integrate in modern context changing cultural environment has resulted the stagnation, decline, even elimination such crafts. study focused use banana fibres Kavalan people Taiwan, research-through...

Traditional medicine (also called ethno-medicine) is indigenous based on traditional medicinal knowledge systems and passed down by word of mouth from generation to within the particular community, especially along familial lines as well through informal apprenticeships; which largely undocumented. For a long time Kenya lacked policies, institutional arrangements legislation medicine. Years lat...

As noted in the foreword of this Special Issue, COVID-19 has accelerated Fourth Industrial Revolution’s or Industry 4.0’s disruption to labour market (Sally, 2021). Beyond 4.0 (I4.0), pandemic adoption digital technologies by enterprises, underscoring need for workers continuously upskill their competencies order remain relevant (Heinonen & Strandvik, Besides digitisation, organisations hav...