This study aimed at measuring the perceptions of vocational education students regarding the application of national vocational teacher standards in randomly selected vocational education classes. The instrument developed for this study was based on the National Standards for Vocational Teachers in Jordan (2006), which included seven dimensions represented by 52 items. The study surveyed 280 vo...

The links of minority stressors (workplace discrimination, expectations of stigma, internalized heterosexism, and identity management strategies) with psychological distress and job satisfaction were examined in a sample of 326 sexual minority employees. Drawing from minority stress theory and the literature on the vocational experiences of sexual minority people, patterns of mediation and mode...

A Critical Analysis of Iranian Training Programs forTechno-Vocational Teachers across Time   A. A. Khallaaghi, Ph.D.* A. Navidi, Ph.D.**   The Iranian educational system has been facing, not only a shortage of techno-vocational teachers across all such schools and over the past one hundred years, but inadequacies in the qualities of those who have served in this sector. An analysis of th...

This paper advances a scheme that proposes how curriculum goals and content might be conceptualised for vocational education. The scheme is founded in socio-historical activity theory. An account of the social sources of vocational knowledge (sociogeneses) comprising history, culture and situation is discussed to illuminate how both the canonical requirements of vocational practice and its mani...

Background This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers, especially teachers’ work-life competence in relation to their teaching subject. ‘Vocational teacher’ is not a clearly defined profession (Misra 2011; Parsons et al. 2009), and furthermore, vocational teachers work in various vocational education systems (e.g. Billett 2011). However, the startin...