Industrial or Vocational Training

Governments worldwide assume that national competitiveness can be improved by developing workforce skills. This book critically examines this 'high...

Governments worldwide assume that national competitiveness can be improved by developing workforce skills. This book critically examines this 'high...

This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal,or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. Todo so...

Every organization seeks to provide its employees with learning and development opportunities that are both targeted to their individual needs and ...

This book explores the concept that the reality which is created by the consciousness inherent in the Western worldview is exceptionally limiting a...

"This book looks at translator and interpreter training, focusing on mediation and culture in a global context. It updates numerous research curre...

Starting with a discussion of the origins of Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), this text proceeds to look at the variety of models through whi...

If 88% of Americans believe that education and training resources should be available to the jobless and more than two-thirds of employers have ide...

Perestroika – economic and political reform – is what the world associated with Mikhail Gorbachev when he led the USSR. There were, however, some p...

The effective development of human resources within the organisation is one of the most powerful contributions to the long-term growth and survival...

In the context of renewed global interest in the development of vocational skills, policy makers in many countries as well as representatives of te...

Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure t...

This book examines communicative practices in a circuit-board manufacturing plant in California's Silicon Valley, where the employees come from div...

Teachers and student teachers in social work will gain valuable insight into the artistry that makes truly great teaching from the accounts found i...

Global trends, such as an ever-rising service economy, rapid technological change and digitalization, challenge skill formation systems. Focussing ...

First Published in 1999. This title examines one publicly funded training program by describing the complex, dynamic process of fostering small bus...

This volume illustrates connections between the concerns of vocational psychology and the adjoining disciplines of sociology, cultural anthropology...

"Internships: Theory and Practice" focuses on the history, theory, value, design, administration, and evaluation of professional internships as an ...

In this collected edition, globalization and its consequences on vocational education systems are described and, at the same time, combined with th...

As the training of family and systemic practitioners becomes increasingly more formalised, the issue of supervision and supervisory training has gr...