Myths and Brands in Vocational Education

Myths and Brands in Vocational Education
Author: Anja Heikkinen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443883239

This book discusses whether certain approaches to (vocational) education have become mythicized and branded, and the reasons for and consequences of this commodification. Additionally, the book also investigates how researchers are contributing to mythicizing and branding in education. Although transnational and comparative studies are increasingly taking into account historical and cultural ideas, is this a result of the exploitation of historical and cultural research for industrial purposes and education export? Educational brands should attract global customers and advertise countries as smart environments for global investments.

Bibliography

Bibliography
Author: Yves Decoster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1991
Genre: Businesswomen
ISBN:

This annotated bibliography on women and vocational training was compiled through a search of the database on vocational training in the European Community and its member states. Key words used in the search were "woman,""equality," and "vocational training." The database contains references to books, periodical articles, legislation, and other published material, selected either by CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) or by the members of the Documentary Information Network. The 465 items listed in this bibliography were published between 1985 and 1990. They are organized into the following categories: (1) the 12 community countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom; (2) European Economic Community and CEDEFOP; (3) the United States and other countries; and (4) the International Labour Office and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Each entry contains information on author, type of publication, title, publisher, city of publication, date, number of pages, index terms (key words), and an abstract. All keywords are in English; however, many of the abstracts are in French and/or German only. (KC)

Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry

Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry
Author: Tüzünkan, Demet
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2018-08-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 152255761X

The tourism industry is the largest service industry and the largest employment generator in the world. This was made possible by increasing globalization and disposable income, with the labor force playing an important role. Factors such as quality of services and business performance depend on a well-educated, well-trained, skilled, enthusiastic, and committed workforce. Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry is a pivotal reference source that provides research on the role of human resource departments in creating value for the workplace through innovation and efficient work processes. While highlighting topics such as organizational structure, gender equality, and employee motivation, this publication explores the development of organizational culture, as well as methods of translating business strategy into action through dramatically managing staff on all levels in the tourism industry. This book is ideally designed for human resources managers, business owners, business professionals, researchers, and academicians seeking current research on the organizational skills and strategies necessary in creating effective tourism businesses.

The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work

The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work
Author: Margaret Malloch
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1529762065

The first two decades of the 21st century have contributed a growing body of research, theorisation and empirical studies on learning and work. This Handbook takes the consideration of this topic into a new realm, moving beyond the singular linking of identity, learning and work to embrace a more holistic appreciation of learners and their life-long learning. Across 40 chapters, learners, learning and work are situated within educational, organisational, social, economic and political contexts. Taken together, these contributions paint a picture of evolving perspectives of how scholars from around the world view developments in both theory and practice, and map the shifts in learning and work over the past two decades. Part 1: Theoretical perspectives of learning and work Part 2: Intersections of learning and work in organisations and beyond Part 3: Learning throughout working lives and beyond Part 4: Issues and challenges to learning and work

Equity in and through Education

Equity in and through Education
Author: Stephen Carney
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004366741

This volume brings together leading research to consider the role of education in creating equitable societies. Spanning phases and sectors, early childhood, through compulsory schooling and higher education, to adult learning, the contributions consider issues of fairness and inclusion in education systems in terms of access, processes and outcomes. These issues are addressed in an international and comparative perspective via analyses of the policies of government and supra-national entities as they focus on managing the relationship between education and equity; the power of education to interrupt or perpetuate cycles of advantage and disadvantage; the narratives of children, youth and adults as they negotiate established and emerging meanings of equity in education.

Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America

Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America
Author: María Eugenia Rausky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030009017

This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of these relationships are identified through empirical research carried out in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. This book centers on the experiences of individuals in those less favored social groups who may have suffered structural poverty for decades, or who may have been simply deprived of a basic income to cover their most essential needs.

The elementary structuring of patriarchy

The elementary structuring of patriarchy
Author: Menara Guizardi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2024-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526176521

Based on an ethnographic study on the Andean Tri-border (between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia), this volume addresses the experience of Aymara cross-border women from Bolivia employed in the rural valleys on the outskirts of Arica (Chile’s northernmost city). As protagonists of transborder mobility circuits, these women are intersectionally impacted by different forms of social vulnerability. With a feminist anthropological perspective, the book investigates how the boundaries of gender are constructed in the (multi)situated experience of these transborder women. By building a bridge between classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary debates on transnational and transborder mobility, the book invites us to rethink structuralist theoretical assertions on the elementary character of family alliances.