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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Trainers and Transformation: Facilitating the "Dark Side" of Vocational Learning
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Hodge, Steven – International Journal of Training Research, 2010
"Transformative learning" is a term used by Mezirow (1991) and his followers to designate a specifically "adult" kind of learning that involves shifts in how learners view the world and themselves. New research into learning in VET suggests that in some subject areas transformative learning may play more than an incidental role. Among the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Teacher Role, Educational Research
A Quarter of a Century of CBT: The Vicissitudes of an Idea
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Harris, Roger; Hodge, Steven – International Journal of Training Research, 2009
In 1983, a competency-based vocational education (CBVE) program began in Croydon Park College of TAFE, South Australia. This was six years before the Australian State Ministers of Vocational Education and Training decreed competency-based training (CBT) to be the national training imperative. Two reports were produced in 1985 and 1987, based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Competence, Interviews