ERIC Number: EJ1164434
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Recognising Potential: Trade Educators Transforming a Workforce
Research in Post-Compulsory Education, v22 n4 p556-573 2017
The importance of developing a knowledgeable, skilled, adaptable and flexible workforce that engages in continuous learning is outlined in the 2015 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) document "Unleashing the Potential: Transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training". While this statement reflects an aspiration for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) graduates as skilled members of a twenty-first-century workforce, educators, trainers and organisations are implicated. Indeed, it is incumbent on them to be closely involved in the development of such a workforce. To understand, prepare for and provide such workforce development, learning organisations and educators must undertake their own learning and development. Education and training with a focus on providing for a knowledgeable, skilled, adaptable and flexible workforce is only possible when the educational workforce has the means to achieve such a goal. In "Strengthening TVET Teacher Education: Report of the UNESCO/UNEVOC Online Conference", it is stated that the development of a strong TVET teacher workforce is a vital part of a strong TVET system. Pre-service teacher education and continuing professional development are identified as key components.
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Trade and Industrial Education, Trade and Industrial Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Skilled Workers, Skilled Occupations, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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