Higher and Further

2014 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Damon Cartledge
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Knowledge Structures ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Increasingly, educators find themselves accountable to “make good” on the promises of policy makers about the social and political intentions of education. In the case of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE), delivering policy-driven promises can be a complex task. Internationally negotiated and ratified educational intentions of TVE by bodies such as UNESCO provide a relatively common promise of what TVE should achieve in knowledge-driven economies. However, there are stumbling blocks on the path to success in that mission. The range of contexts and stakeholders encompassed by TVE compounds the complexity, as does the recent blurring of historic divisions between further education and higher education. The chapter reveals that deeply entrenched values around forms of knowledge and their sense of educational “place” get disturbed in the process of change, and educators for TVE must now critically reflect on how to improve the knowledge structures required to meet the educational promises of the 21st century.

Engineering registers in the 21st century

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheena Gardner ◽  
Xiaoyu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Open Access ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Word Frequencies

Abstract Following an exploration of engineering programmes in higher education, and a review of literature on engineering registers, genres and disciplines, this paper asks if there is a register for engineering. Word frequencies, n-grams and frequent n-grams in context were analysed in a 7.3 million word corpus created from four sections (Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results & Discussion, Conclusion) of over 1000 articles in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. From the perspective of systemic functional linguistics, this reveals how engineering is construed through language that reflects the social context of high impact, open access, multi-modal, 21st century, international journal article publication, with multiple author roles, and prescribed genres, where reviewers focus on problem solving and facts, rather than persuasive claims.

Preparing Students for Workplace Diversity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Lester ◽  
David A. Kravitz ◽  
Carrie N. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Workplace Diversity ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diverse Interactions

The 21st century workplace is becoming increasingly diverse and global in context. This creates a need for multiculturally competent employees who can work well with people of different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Higher education is uniquely situated to provide students with opportunities for cross-cultural and diverse interactions and for personal and professional development in multicultural competence. This chapter focuses on the social and emotional challenges posed by the increasing globalization of business as well as the increasing diversity of the workforce and in higher education. We argues for the importance of diversity in the workforce; describes how diversity is present on campus; and makes recommendations for how that diversity can be leveraged to train, develop, and prepare the workforce of tomorrow.

Vocational education methodology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Александр Ходусов ◽  
Aleksandr Khodusov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Education History ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
Wide Range

The manual discusses the methodology of the development strategy of vocational education in Russia, its design, modeling, organization and development, as well as the methodology of professional training of future specialists. The textbook meets the requirements of the Federal educational standard of higher education of the last generation, the professional retraining program "Higher School Teacher", as well as the main sections of the curriculum courses "Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher Education", "History and Methodology of Professional Education", "Methodology and Methods of Organization of Scientific Research », Requirements for the content of additional professional programs. The manual is designed for a wide range of readers: masters, graduate students, applicants for academic degrees of candidates and doctors of pedagogical sciences; students of institutes and postgraduate training courses dealing with problems of vocational education; teachers of higher, postgraduate and further education.

Technical Vocational Education and Training for Micro-Enterprise Development in Ethiopia

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-392
Author(s):  
Tendayi Gondo ◽  
Gift Dafuleya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Simple Expansion ◽  
Technical Vocational Education ◽  
Constrained Capacity ◽  
And Training

Technical vocational education and training (TVET) programmes have recently received increased attention as an area of priority for stimulating growth in developed and developing countries. This paper considers the situation in Ethiopia where the promotion of micro and small-sized enterprises (MSEs) has been central to the development and expansion of TVET centres throughout the country. The extent to which efforts relating to TVET made by Ethiopian policy makers, higher education institutions and MSEs have enhanced the development of the micro-enterprise sector is considered, using empirical evidence gathered from nine Ethiopian cities. It is argued that the existing relationship between TVET and micro-enterprise cannot be regarded only as one of constrained capacity, usage and transformation. The authors argue further that the development of micro and small-sized enterprises requires approaches extending beyond the simple expansion and development of TVET institutions.

From System Into Networking: The Social Shape of Ecumenism in the 21st Century

Exchange ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-396
Author(s):  
Henk Witte
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
History Of

AbstractOn the threshold of post-modernism, the shape of ecumenism is in a process of change. It passes from a system to a form of networking. This article reflects on this process against the background of the question of the French sociologist of religion Jean-Paul Willaime whether ecumenism is out-of-date. According to Willaime, ecumenism has become a disordered pluralism. He only draws attention to the nihilistic and pluralistic character of post-modernism, but does not look at its aesthetic-mystic dimension. The history of western ontology shows three consecutive ways of experiencing reality: substance, system, and structure (Heinrich Rombach). Ecumenism has been developed as a system, in which unity predominates, but post-modern culture, with its priority to pluralism, challenges it to shape itself as networking and to think about unity in more sacramental and in more juridical terms.

scholarly journals VET TEACHERS IN SLOVAKIA AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR COMPETENCES IMPROVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-249
Author(s):  
TÍMEA ŠEBEN ZAŤKOVÁ ◽  
MARIÁN AMBROZY
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
Teacher Competences ◽  
Training Community ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Level

The common problem of the many countries that´s identified by many policy makers, educators, economists and other professionals is the problem of high level of youth unemployment rate. Properly prepared workforce for the European economy are current challenges for the teacher and training community. The need to update vocational education teaching (further VET) - teachers’ qualifications and competences is very urgent in the all countries of EU. This study deals with teacher preparation in Slovakia and concisely describes selected results of questionnaire survey on vocational education teacher competences. The study provides an introduction to the theme of teacher competence improvement through small survey conducted at Slovak university of Agriculture in Nitra and suggests some challenges for solution in VET teachers preparation. There is a need of innovative practical approach to stimulating and develop key competences among students in VET institutions. This need is also connected with the quality of VET teachers and the professional teacher competences development in teachers’ preparation and in their further education.

scholarly journals The Good Citizen: problematising citizenship in the social sciences curriculum

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Judith Burnett ◽  
Erika Cudworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social

This article explores the critical pedagogical issues that emerge when attempting to develop active citizenship among undergraduates as an integral part of the student experience. It presents part of the findings from a C-SAP-funded project (Gifford et al. 2006) that we undertook with a partner higher education institution. This article explores our particular contribution carried out in a post-1992 London higher education institution. Our innovations in the social sciences undergraduate curriculum aimed at creating situations in which students would explore the diversity of citizenship in educational settings, namely, a local school, a further education college, and Summerhill School (founded by A.S. Neill). The research leads us to conclude that citizenship is a problem of praxis influenced and shaped by the local-global contexts of communities with diverse heritages of meaning, stratified social settings, and specific local and historical characteristics. This challenges the notions underpinning the Crick curriculum with its national orientation, and demonstrates the need to sensitise citizenship learning experiences to the needs of students and staff embedded in their social contexts. Such an approach can be understood as a form of situated citizenship characterised by active engagement with an assumption of heterogeneity which is positively sensitive to diversity.

scholarly journals Research Criteria andLlevels of the 7-year-old Children Social Adaptation in the 1st Grade

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Līga Āboltiņa
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
School Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Criteria

In the 21st century it is important to every child to belong to a certain society, to learn its cultural values, its norms and requirements, thus socially adapting and integrating. The first weeks or months in school are considered as a period of particular importance in a 7-year-old child's life, when is the period of the child's social adaptation. A 7-year-old child’s further education at school can be predicted by depending on how the social adaptation of the 7-year-old child goes on, based on the legality of child development. Unfortunately, there are no unified research criteria developed so far in school practice by which it would be possible to determine the 7-year-old child's social adaptation. Taking into consideration the analysis of theoretical policies, there are research criteria groups and levels of children's social adaptation named and formulated within this paper, in order to explore the 7-year-old children's social adaptation and to provide appropriate educational support.

scholarly journals Weighting the World: IPBES and the Struggle over Biocultural Diversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Hughes ◽  
Alice B. M. Vadrot
Keyword(s):  
Biocultural Diversity ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Assessment Report ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This article has two aims. The first is to provide an account of the struggle over the term biocultural diversity during the intergovernmental approval of the first IPBES thematic assessment report. Second, in detailing this struggle, we aim to contribute to scholarship on global environmental negotiating processes and the place and power of knowledge within these by introducing the notion of a weighted concept. Our analysis starts with the observation that the emergence of new scientific terms through global assessments has the potential to activate political struggle, which becomes part of the social construction of the concept and may travel with it into other international negotiating settings. By analyzing the way in which the term biocultural diversity initiated reaction from delegates negotiating the Summary for Policy Makers of the Pollination Assessment, we illuminate the distribution of authority or symbolic power to determine its meaning and place in the text. We suggest that the weighted concept enables us to explore the forms of knowledge underpinning political order and, in this case, unpack how biocultural diversity challenges the primacy of scientific knowledge by authorizing the place of indigenous knowledge in global biodiversity politics, which initiated attempts to remove or confine its usage in the text.

De transformatie van het journalistieke veld: discursieve strategieën en journalistieke vormen

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Broersma
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social World ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Journalistic Field

The transformation of the journalistic field: discursive strategies and journalistic forms The transformation of the journalistic field: discursive strategies and journalistic forms Journalism is transforming rapidly in the 21st century. This article argues that two complementary approaches offer Journalism Studies productive perspectives to study this process of change. Bourdieu’s field theory provides a theoretical framework in which the (re-)positioning and interdependencies of established media organizations and new media can be studied fruitfully. By doing so, journalism is explored as a relational and dynamic field of forces in which agents try to maximize their power and prestige. In addition, empirical research into journalism texts, including audiovisual items, and more specific into the forms of reporting sheds light upon the discursive strategies of news media. These texts have to been studies as strategic representations of the social world. They are used to position the author and the medium they are published in as advantageously as possible in the journalistic field.

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