Education: Post-Compulsory Education

By Kaye Sung Chon, Clayton W Barrows, Robert H Bosselman

Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book…

Hardback – 1999-03-02
Routledge

Edited by Ian Finlay, Stuart Niven, Stephanie Young

Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the…

Paperback – 1998-10-22
Routledge

By John Garrick

Informal learning has become an extremely important issue as post-industrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential. Managers and HRD practitioners have attempted to deploy informal learning in the design of corporate cultures, however, most discussions of the subject have tended to be…

Paperback – 1998-09-17
Routledge

Edited by Howard Ball, Mbulelo Vizikhu Mzamane, Stephen D. Berkowitz

This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's contributors have attempted to deal with this dilemma in their own teaching practice. Two core essays explore the…

Paperback – 1998-07-01
Routledge

By David Boud, Grahame Feletti

Problem-based learning is a way of constructing and teaching courses using problems as the stimulus and focus for student activity. This edition looks at the topic in the light of changes since the first edition (1991). There are new chapters on the impact of PBL, and inquiry and action learning.…

Paperback – 1998-05-01
Routledge

By Tony Edwards, Carol Fitz-Gibbon, Frank Hardman, Roy Haywood, Nick Meagher

This book looks in detail at the strong contrasts in the provision traditionally made for 'academically' and 'vocationally' minded students, and looks at differences and similarities in practice. The chapters report evidence of how students on both sides think they have been taught. They also…

Paperback – 1997-11-13
Routledge

By Martin Bloomer

It is widely agreed that the post-16 curriculum in England and Wales is inadequate, mainly due to the successive reforms of various governments.YTS was a reaction to problems of youth unemployment, CPVE and BTEC embraced a 'broad' concept of vocationalism, and even with the introduction of NVQ and…

Paperback – 1997-10-09
Routledge

Edited by Robert Harris, David McNamara, Professor David Mcnamara

Higher education institutions are increasingly concerned with the quality of their teaching and learning experiences they provide for students, including the increasing number from overseas. In this text, some of the leading authorities in the field bring together current research and sound…

Paperback – 1997-01-02
Routledge

Edited by Ruth Hawthorn, Jennifer M. Kidd, John Killeen, Bill Law, A. G. Watts

Re-thinking Careers Education and Guidance is the first book published in the United Kingdom to cover theory, policy and practice in all sectors of careers education and guidance provision. The book features: * an authoritative review of career theories, together with a new career learning theory *…

Paperback – 1996-11-07
Routledge

Edited by Rolv Petter Amdam

Globally two processes are striking about modern management education. Firstly, management education is changing rapidly to meet new challenges from business and governments and to improve competitiveness. Secondly, management education has become one of the fastest growing areas in higher…

Hardback – 1996-07-04
Routledge
Routledge International Studies in Business History

By Ruth Middleman, Gale Goldberg Wood

Teachers and student teachers in social work will gain valuable insight into the artistry that makes truly great teaching from the accounts found in this new book. Master teachers examine the processes they use in the classroom and present them in a format that facilitates the practical application…

Paperback – 1996-04-30
Routledge

As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education or training. All those involved in the broad field of adult education and training will come into contact with many specialist ideas or concepts.…

Hardback – 1996-04-04
Routledge