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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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Poortman, Cindy L.; Reenalda, Marloes; Nijhof, Wim J.; Nieuwenhuis, Loek F. M. – Vocations and Learning, 2014
Workplace learning is considered an effective strategy for the development of vocation, career and professional identity. Dual training programs, in which learning at a vocational school and learning at work in a company are combined, are seen as strong carriers for skill formation processes. In this study we explore workplace learning in dual…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Professional Education, Higher Education, Qualitative Research
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Imants, J.; Wubbels, T.; Vermunt, J. D. – Vocations and Learning, 2013
This study builds on two assumptions regarding agency in teachers' workplace learning: (1) While teachers enact school reform in daily school and classroom practice, they actively redefine the reform; (2) In this learning process, in which working and learning are integrated, teachers reinterpret and reinvent the workplace conditions in their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Workplace Learning, Educational Change, Teaching Conditions
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Chan, Selena – Vocations and Learning, 2013
The transition from school to work, in the form of a trade-based apprenticeship, is one with a long history. Recent socio-historical changes include increased use of technology, the changing nature of work and shifting patters in the employment market are influencing both the apprenticeship journey and its destination. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Food Processing Occupations, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Bound, Helen; Lin, Magdalene – Vocations and Learning, 2013
In this paper, we explore the relationship between differing conceptualisations of competence, and the implications of these differences for the enacted workplace curriculum and its pedagogical epistemologies. We argue that when competence is understood as a set of stand-alone attributes that reside within an individual, it limits and over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Workplace Learning, Case Studies
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Billett, Stephen; Sweet, Linda; Glover, Pauline – Vocations and Learning, 2013
This paper outlines curriculum considerations for the ordering, enactment and experiencing of practice-based experiences (e.g. practicums) in tertiary education programs developing occupational specific capacities. Increasingly, these programs are engaging students in practicum experiences (i.e. those in the circumstances of practice). These…
Descriptors: Obstetrics, Practicums, Allied Health Occupations Education, Postsecondary Education
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van Bommel, Marijke; Boshuizen, Henny P. A.; Kwakman, Kitty – Vocations and Learning, 2012
Higher professional education aims to prepare students for entering practice with an adequate theoretical body of knowledge. In constructivist programmes, authentic learning contexts and self-directed learning are assumed to support knowledge learning and the transition from education to practice. Through an in-depth exploration, this case study…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Constructivism (Learning), College Seniors