Your search
Results 179 resources
-
In this case study, an online community was designed at a secondary school in China for the teachers to prepare their lessons collectively, reflect on their teaching practices, collect comments from peers, and share resources. A survey was administered to the teachers to investigate their perceptions on the online community for their professional development. Two hundred and eighty-three teachers responded to the survey and eight teachers were further interviewed by email. The result showed...
-
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of teacher professionalism in Cambodia and the issues and challenges in this area. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses Hargreaves’ four ages of teacher professionalism and
-
This paper is a follow-up of the paper ECER-presented in 2012, ‘A Critical Review of Vocational Education and Training Research and Suggestions for the Research Agenda’ (Author & Co-author, 2012). This paper gave a description of research in the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in 2011. This new paper gives an overview of the field of VET research in 2012. In this article the VET research presented at the European Conference of Educational Research 2012 (Cádiz) is reviewed,...
-
A pesquisa para este relatório foi realizada em 2010 e 2011 em cinco países da África Austral e, em seguida, foi conferido e editado pelo professor John Aitchison, da Universidade de KwaZulu-Natal.
-
The current review addresses the validity of published meta-analyses in education that determines the credibility and generalizability of study findings using a total of 56 meta-analyses published in education in the 2000s. Our objectives were to evaluate the current meta-analytic practices in education, identify methodological strengths and weaknesses, and provide recommendations for improvements in order to generate a more valid and credible knowledge base of what works in practice. It was...
-
With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper provides a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational systems: school-based education, a dual system in which school-based education is combined with firm-based training, and informal training. We first explore the motivation for these different types of...
-
Technology-based initiatives have transformed the process of teaching and learning activities at formal institutions generally and distance education institutions particularly. Distance education is at the heart of the digital age making maximum use of the emerging technologies. Researchers have favoured computer mediated communications (CMC) for improving the quality of teacher education in developing countries by providing access to more and better educational resources. The researchers...
-
Summary Advances in health professional education have been slow to materialize in many developing countries over the past half-century, contributing to a widening gap in quality of care compared to developed countries. Recent calls for reform in global health professional education have stressed, among other priorities, the need for approaches that strengthen clinical reasoning skills. While the development of these skills is critical to enhance health systems, little research has been...
-
Abstract. AMREF is the African Medical and Research Foundation, a uniquely African organization, created in 1957 which runs 145 health programmes a year to help around 7 million people in Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi and with offices around the world, AMREF ensures access to health care for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in Africa, with a focus on women and children. AMREF works within the communities, and works with and for women as they are the heart of the communities....
-
The research was conducted to investigate the level of importance as well as the competence among the students of technical and vocational education in terms of employability skills in Nigeria. There are 233 final year students that constituted the sample for the study in Kano State. The respondents were picked from mechanical, electronic, electrical installation and automobile departments in technical colleges in the state. The data was collected using questionnaire which was adapted from...
-
This study investigated the current state of college students' perceptions toward mobile learning in higher education. Mobile learning is a new form of learning utilizing the unique capabilities of mobile devices. Although mobile devices are ubiquitous on college campuses, student readiness for mobile learning has yet to be fully explored in the United States. The paper describes a conceptual model, based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which explains how college students' beliefs...
Explore
Our programmes
-
OER4Schools
(3)
- Publications (2)
- Resources (1)
-
TVET in sub-Saharan Africa (GOVET-BIBB-BMBF)
(41)
-
Citations
(41)
- Chapter 01. Introduction (1)
- Chapter 02. Research Design (2)
- Chapter 03. Overview (11)
- Chapter 04. Conception (4)
- Chapter 05. TVET Actors (9)
- Chapter 06. Themes (8)
- Chapter 07. Systematic Review (6)
- Chapter 08. Models (9)
- Chapter 09. Inclusion (2)
- Chapter 10. State Authorities (1)
- Chapter 11. Non-state Providers (1)
- Chapter 12. Standards (4)
- Chapter 13. Policy Implementation (5)
- Chapter 14. Institutional Frameworks (1)
- Chapter 15. Research Networks (1)
- Appendix 1. Annotated Bibliography (4)
- Appendix 3. SCR (1)
-
Citations
(41)
Organisations, collaborators and clients
Theme
- Artificial Intelligence (2)
- Climate-resilience, classrooms, physical environment (2)
- Education Workforce (1)
- Geodata in Education (1)
- Implementation science (3)
- Literature Reviews, meta-analysis, evidence synthesis (2)
- Research and evaluation (9)
- Teacher Education (25)
-
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
(39)
- Publications (39)
Location
-
Africa
(37)
- Eastern Africa (16)
-
Middle Africa
(3)
- Angola (1)
- Central African Republic (1)
- Congo, Democratic Republic (1)
- Gabon (1)
-
Northern Africa
(1)
- Sudan (1)
-
Southern Africa
(8)
- Botswana (4)
- Lesotho (1)
- Malawi (1)
- Mozambique (1)
- Namibia (1)
- South Africa (6)
-
Western Africa
(19)
- Burkina Faso (3)
- Ghana (8)
- Ivory Coast (3)
- Nigeria (7)
- Senegal (2)
- Sierra Leone (2)
-
Americas
(4)
- Caribbean (2)
-
Central America
(1)
- Costa Rica (1)
- Mexico (1)
-
Northern America
(4)
- Canada (2)
- United States (3)
- South America (1)
-
Asia
(4)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- China (1)
- Japan (1)
- Korea, Republic (1)
- South-eastern Asia (3)
-
Southern Asia
(2)
- Afghanistan (1)
- India (1)
- Nepal (2)
- Pakistan (1)
- Sri Lanka (1)
-
Western Asia
(2)
- Georgia (1)
- Israel (1)
- Saudi Arabia (1)
- State of Palestine (1)
- Turkey (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
-
Europe
(4)
-
Eastern Europe
(2)
- Czech Republic (1)
- Hungary (1)
- Poland (1)
- Romania (1)
- Russian Federation (2)
- Northern Europe (2)
- Southern Europe (3)
-
Western Europe
(4)
- Austria (1)
- Belgium (1)
- France (2)
- Germany (2)
- Netherlands (3)
-
Eastern Europe
(2)
-
Oceania
(2)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(2)
- Australia (2)
- New Zealand (1)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(2)