International Perspectives on Teachers and Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education


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This book provides insight into the history and current status of teaching in technical and vocational education across a broad range of countries. It contains studies of the profiles of teachers and lecturers and their educational practices. An overarching introduction embeds the content of the book into the current global context of Technical and Vocational Education and Training. This is the first substantial volume on the topic in 30 years.




Schools and Work


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In the half century since the World War II, France has developed from a conservative, semi-rural society in which the great majority of the population had only a primary education to a highly developed modern one with a remarkably well-educated and well-trained citizenry and labour force. Technical and vocational education, which before 1960 were confined to an enclave within the French education system, now permeate the entire system. Business and industry, long isolated from education, now play a major role in educational decision making. The French educational system today meets the demand for skilled personnel in almost all fields while maintaining "a complement of general culture." The first book in English to treat the important subject of technical education in France, Schools and Work places technical education within the larger field of French public education, including the administrative and political backdrop, European industrial development, the nature of work, and global competitiveness.




Perspectives on Learning Assessment in the Arts in Higher Education


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Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights from art teachers in Canada and Europe, this edited volume explores the question of how learning in the arts can be effectively and fairly assessed in the context of higher education. The chapters consider a rich variety of assessment practices across music, visual and plastic arts, performing arts, design, fashion, dance and music and illustrate how knowledge, competencies, skills and progress can be viably and fairly assessed. Contextual challenges to assessment are also considered in depth, and particular attention is paid to the challenges of reconciling teaching in the arts, aimed at an intuitive transformation of the student, and assessing learning that takes on its meaning in subjectivity and sensitivity. This text will benefit researchers, academics and educators in higher education with an interest in assessment in the artistic disciplines and in the topic of creativity more broadly. Those specifically interested in educational assessment policy and the visual arts will also benefit from this book.




Employment Relations in France


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Thisbook is the fruit of a number of years of assimilating another culture and learning about the evolution of its institutions, altogether an incr- iblyrich andrewarding experience. Ihopetopassonto the reader some of that richness in the belief that, even in a “globalizing” context, learning about other nations and cultures is more and more necessary. The reasons andvalues behind this belief are perhaps evident,but I amconvincedthat they bear repeating here. To begin with, the hasty generalizations that often liebehind the cynicism—and ultimately the violence—of ethnocentrism and xe- phobia are still being aired today and still need to be fought, even in “unified and advanced” regions of the world like Europe and the United States. The historical and social sciences disciplines need to be solicited constantly in this combat, even though they themselves are terrains of controversy and contestation. I personally have not lost faith in their “progressive” potential and character. Second, my belief is that only through this process of appeal to these disciplines and their findings can we resist a dangerous contemporary slide into simplisticand sensation- ist pictures of the world—viewpoints often associated with an implicit assumption that social and economic change are linear processes, so- how unfolding according to the same neat “logic” wherever they are at work.




Expertise de justice


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Améliorer la qualité de l’expertise de justice et tendre à harmoniser sa pratique en Europe afin de favoriser l’exercice effectif des droits et de renforcer la confiance des justiciables dans le règlement de leurs litiges, telles sont les ambitions de l’EEEI, Institut européen de l’expertise et de l’expert. Après avoir contribué à faire émerger des pistes de convergence de l’analyse du recours à l’expertise de justice dans les pays de l’Union européenne et en Norvège dans le cadre du projet EUREXPERTISE soutenu par la Commission européenne, des professionnels de la matière, magistrats, avocats, experts, universitaires s’impliquent ici, dans cette démarche d’harmonisation, au-delà des systèmes juridiques de droit interne, en accompagnant le projet EGLE qui doit aboutir à l’élaboration d’un guide européen des bonnes pratiques de l’expertise de justice. Préfacé par le professeur Hans Franken, cet ouvrage regroupe les réflexions de ces praticiens de différents États de l’Union européenne sur les exigences que doit satisfaire l’expertise de justice pour répondre aux besoins des juges et des justiciables et sur la nécessité d’identifier des techniciens compétents, indépendants, impartiaux, aptes à concourir efficacement à l’œuvre de justice. Illustré par une présentation d’actions déjà mises en œuvre au niveau local pour promouvoir une expertise de qualité et riche d’analyses pluridisciplinaires lucides sur les freins à l’instauration d’une véritable procédure européenne d’expertise, pourtant souhaitée, cet ouvrage est destiné en premier lieu aux praticiens de la résolution de litiges transfrontaliers et aux autorités qui concourent, au plan local ou national, au processus de l’expertise de justice ou au recrutement et à l’habilitation des experts de justice.




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Open Internationalization Strategy


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Open internationalization is a concept that brings a new perspective on the process of firm internationalization. As theories of internationalization show, some companies expand abroad only on their own, known as closed internationalization, while others combine their resources with those of other firms or use their networks for facilitating foreign implantation, known as open internationalization. Parallel to the development of the well-known concept of open innovation, open internationalization can be conceived as a meta-model for understanding companies’ expansion abroad. This book gathers a selection of contemporary research works dedicated to open internationalization, either seen as a way to analyze expansion in foreign countries, or as a way to investigate the management of geographically dispersed activities. All the authors of the chapters are researchers specialized in the internationalization field. Readers will benefit from this new lens for understanding, studying or practising international business, from the decision to go abroad to its implementation and its efficiency. Open Internationalization Strategy includes both academic empirical investigations and literature reviews on specific topics, making it valuable to researchers, academics, managers, and students in the fields of business and management history, international business, organizational studies, and economics.





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Hope


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In our times hope is called into question. The disintegration of economic systems, of states and societies, families, friendships, distrust in political structures, forces us to ask if hope has disappeared from the experience of today's men and women. In August 2019, up to 240 participants met at the international theological congress in Bratislava, Slovakia. The main lectures, congress sections and workshops aimed to provide a space for thinking about the central theme of hope in relation to philosophy, politics, pedagogy, social work, charity, interreligious dialogue and ecumenism.