Vocational education and training (VET) is under reform in many Nordic countries. This article explores uses of developmental work research (DWR) approach in reforming and transforming practices of VET. DWR was initiated in Finland in the 1980s to enhance understanding about learning in organizations. The aim of this article is to elaborate the approach by examining studies made in the field of...

* This paper uses age-specific, postcode-level data on crime statistics from the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, postcode-level vocational education and training participation data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) and population estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). We appreciate the hel...

Current situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Education for the liberal professions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elite education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 General...

The role of Finnish vocational special needs teachers has changed during the last decades according to work-life and inclusive ambitions in education. In addition substance competence, need pedagogical knowledge education skills. This study investigates descriptions by interaction with students who receive intensive learning support, traces their opportunities support colleges, work life, socie...

Medical education and training in Australia comprises four phases: basic education, prevocational training, vocational training and continuing professional development. Between the 1860s and 1960s, eight medical schools were established in Australia, admitting school leavers to courses comprised of preclinical, paraclinical and clinical phases. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, two innovative ne...

The Independence Initiative is a Merseyside wide but Sefton based relapse prevention service that deals with clients who are recovering from drug misuse problems. We focus solely on one-to-one interaction in order to provide specifically tailored action plans for our clients. We provide a wide range of interventions including counselling, pre-vocational training, complementary therapies and inf...

Vocational training and general education are the two predominant forms of secondary schooling around the world. Most studies that compare the e¤ect of vocational and general education on labor market outcomes in the cross-section su¤er from selection bias since less able students are more likely to enroll in vocational programs. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, this paper expl...

Introduction Theoretical and empirical aspects of interactions between person and situation have been discussed for decades in personality and social psychology in terms of the interactionist paradigm (e.g. Matthews et al. 2003), in educational psychology within the scope of aptitude-treatment interaction theory (e.g. Cronbach and Snow 1977; Yeh 2012), and in vocational education and training (...

This paper discusses technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as well as skills development in rural areas, mainly pertaining to agriculture and related activities and explores existing gender differences. TVET has suffered from a focus on basic, and especially primary education, which led to the neglect of post-basic education and training and their non-inclusion in the UN Millen...