Career Development

This book examines the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its potential impact on vocational education and training. Broadly located in a framework rooted in critical/radical theory, the book argues that the affordance of technologies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792488450Author Margaret MunkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946432452Author Rachel WinstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Lizard PublishingPublisher Lizard PublishingWeight(grams) 712g

This volume brings together both political and educational scientists. While educational research literature has so far not systematically addressed the tool of simulations of decision-making, political scientists have hardly used insights from research...

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the implementation of vocational education and training programmes, the author assesses various...

This book introduces, rationalizes and describes some ways to circumvent the challenges of providing 'hands-on' learning when programmes with practice-based focuses have to be offered via distance learning. It presents a framework to help deconstruct the...

The Internship Handbook is designed to prepare students and then guide them through the internship experience. It combines theoretical knowledge to help readers better understand their personalities, traits, values, and strengths with practical...

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education. As professional life becomes ever more demanding, this book draws together the work of researchers and practitioners who have...

Career Counseling Across the Lifespan: Community, School, and Higher Education is the latest volume in the Issues in Career Development series, edited by Grafton Eliason, John Patrick, and Jeff Samide, from California University of Pennsylvania. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991177917Author Melissa CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Cynthia Goodwin-SakPublisher Cynthia Goodwin-SakWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738487912Author LE MakaroffFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint LE MakaroffPublisher LE Makaroff

This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how education and training...

This book gathers work from over a decade of study, and seeks to better understand and support how learners become tradespeople. The research programme applies recent concepts from neuroscience, educational psychology and technology-enhanced learning to...

This book focuses on relations among subjectivity, work and learning that represent a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices. There are contributions from leading scholars in the field. They provide emerging perspectives...

Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946432308Author Rachel WinstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Lizard PublishingPublisher Lizard PublishingWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953569882Author Ericka KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Marilee PublishingPublisher Marilee PublishingWeight(grams) 150g

This book examines how industry-desired employability skills—or “soft skills”—are taught and learned in high school career and technical education (CTE) engineering and engineering technology programs. Identifying, recruiting, and keeping workers with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777626020Author Carolyn HoesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Higher Education and BeyondPublisher Higher Education and BeyondWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792410024Author Cheryl L BonnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book addresses a gap in and outside academia: how to help Sociology undergraduates develop skills for career success while maintaining a sociologically rigorous approach. Matching sociological theories, methods, and knowledge with contemporary...

This book explores the holistic development of vocational education in Chinese education system. It investigates the vocational education policy development, student development, allocation of teachers’ resources, financial mechanism and system,...

Developing Study and Work Skills is the first text to unite the fragmented study skills/work skills/personal development skills market by focusing on the key basic skills that students need in order to make them practically as well as academically...

Rather than simply describing career development theories, the completely updated second edition of Foundations of Career Counseling: A Case-Based Approach uses eight realistic, diverse client scenarios to help students connect with the material and...

This book provides valuable information and practical insights regarding preparing for and pursuing a successful faculty career. It offers essential guidance through sequential chapters that consider the various stages of a successful faculty career,...

Rethinking a Sustainable Society Alan Mayne The world has already passed the midway point for achieving by 2015 the eight Millennium Development Goals for a "more peaceful, prosperous and just world" that were set by the United Nations in the...

This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working life can be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches that fit well within working...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087987903Author Zoya AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Zoya AhmedPublisher Zoya AhmedWeight(grams) 113g

This book analyses examples of quality teaching in professional education in the human client fields. The first of two volumes, the editors and contributors use case studies to illustrate the elements deemed good practice within professional education...

In this book, internationally respected scholars from the disciplines of educational science, business administration and psychology thoroughly discuss practice-related questions on learning transfer in organizations. Readers will learn solid concepts...

This book examines quality teaching in professional education in the fields of engineering and international knowledge structures. The second of a two-volume series, the editors and contributors structure the book around case studies which highlight the...

This volume presents an analysis of the Erasmus+ funding process. It examines the first 3 years of the programme to discover if the funds are being distributed homogeneously throughout the regions of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom...

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date. It introduces a new way of looking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215006832Author Phoebe MwanikiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Phoebe MwanikiPublisher Phoebe MwanikiWeight(grams) 277g

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date. It introduces a new way of looking...

In advancing the vision of adult learning articulated at the International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V) held in Hamburg in 1997, the UNESCO Institute for Education has been conducting studies on the different areas and dimensions of 'Adult...

This book offers unique insights into the impact of the rise of a managerialist culture in Further Adult and Vocational Education (FAVE) in England. It will also raise awareness of the consequences of the imposition of top-down, models of educational...

Navigating research careers is often highly challenging for early career researchers (ECRs) in the social sciences. The ability to thrive in research careers is complex and requires "soft" people and management skills and resilience that often cannot be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959240044Author Frank RicciFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Firefighter Book ClubPublisher Firefighter Book ClubWeight(grams) 522g

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis...