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Martínez Morales, Ignacio; Bernad i Garcia, Joan Carles; Molpeceres Pastor, Mariángeles; López, Míriam Abiétar; Navas Saurin, Almudena; Marhuenda Fluixá, Fernando; Giménez Urraco, Elena – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
Throughout the history of education different conceptions have been developed about the role and the function that education has in society as a whole. Such conceptions have been constructed around different discourses that show underlying social conflicts. The different educational practices acquire their legitimacy through such discourses, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Comprehensive Programs
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Meijers, Frans – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
Between 1998 and 2002 an estimated 250 mentoring programmes were started in Dutch secondary vocational education in order to decrease motivational problems and drop-out rates, especially among youngsters from ethnic minorities. Currently there are only two schools in secondary vocational education that include mentoring as part and parcel of their…
Descriptors: Mentors, Vocational Education, Comprehensive Guidance, Educational Counseling
Hamby, John V. – 1992
The exemplary high school dropout prevention programs funded by the federal Vocational Education Cooperative Demonstration Program that are profiled in this document reveal several elements necessary for success in an enhanced vocational education program: (1) highly qualified and emotionally stable staff; (2) curriculum and instruction that…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs