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Robert Clinton McNabb – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Career technical education and skilled trades have been the subject of a social stigma that continues to make it a habit of mind that career technical education is inferior to a 4-year college education. This stigma is partially responsible for a shortage of skilled labor. This study aimed to explore how educators describe and understand the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Labor Force Development, Community Colleges
Christopher J. Fry – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between the social structure that Automotive Technology teachers work in and how they learn to teach. The study used Latour's Circulatory System of Scientific Facts framework to surface how this learning happens through empirically tracing actors and things and the knowledge they move…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Expertise, Transfer of Training, Postsecondary Education
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Nick Bailey; Nik Winchester; Neil Ellis – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper examines the practice of collision avoidance in Merchant ships to highlight the role of tacit knowledge and collective learning in the formation of professional practice. Analysis of 1,431 recorded VHF radio conversations drawn from real-time ship-to-ship interactions provides a unique window onto professional competence in navigation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transportation, Proximity, Skilled Workers
Sophia Su; Hyeongsuk Jin – Statistics Canada, 2023
Over the last several decades, the number of Indigenous people in Canada has steadily increased. In the most recent Census (2021), 1.8 million Indigenous people were enumerated, representing a 9.4% increase from 2016. In comparison, the growth of the non-Indigenous population over the same period was 5.3%. Although the number of Indigenous people…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Postsecondary Education
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Vibhavari Vempala; Joi-Lynn Mondisa – Community College Review, 2024
Objective/Research Question: There is a growing demand for skilled workers in engineering and technology fields. However, the number of engineering technology degrees awarded is much less compared to engineering, and a high percentage of students in engineering technology do not persist beyond the first year. To meet the demands for skilled…
Descriptors: Welding, Engineering, Technology, Literature Reviews
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Agyemang, Franklin Gyamfi; Wessels, Nicoline – Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
This article reports on the relationship between becoming information literate and the body in the Kente-weaving landscape. A mixed approach of incorporative ethnographic participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 24 participants through their roles as either master weaver, junior weaver or novice weaver at the Bonwire Kente…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Skilled Workers, Information Literacy, Human Body
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Abraham, Lisa; Mulhern, Christine; Greer, Lucas – RAND Corporation, 2023
The U.S. manufacturing industry is experiencing a resurgence and faces a growing need for highly skilled workers. Recent reports project that demand for highly-skilled manufacturing workers will outpace supply in coming years, and this shortage may grow as the U.S. manufacturing industry grows and its labor needs shift. Furthermore, manufacturing…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Manufacturing Industry, Labor Supply, Postsecondary Education
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Pittman Caines, Oriana; Sanli, Elizabeth A. – International Journal of Training Research, 2021
There is a lack of published research examining ways to mitigate the effects of attention on human error prevalence in the marine setting. Evidence from the aviation industry, a very similar field, shows that attention does impact performance, especially when more than one task is to be completed at the same time. Much like pilots, mariners are…
Descriptors: Attention, Skilled Workers, Job Performance, Marine Education
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Marlissa Omar; Fathiyah Mohd Kamaruzaman – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Technical and vocational education training (TVET) is an education and training process with a strong emphasis on industry practices that aims to generate competent workers in particular fields. Collaboration with industry in TVET has the potential to improve the quality and relevance of TVET programmes and equip students with the practical skills…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Industry, School Business Relationship, Journal Articles
Smith, Kristine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This correlational research design analyzes the identity development of career and technical education high school students. Adolescents have a choice to make: enter a traditional high school or pursue a high school education in a career and technical education setting. The focus of getting an education in a career and technical education setting…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Vocational Education, High School Students, Self Concept
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Dhiraj Kumar Nite; Anjali Kumari; Shuchi Agrawal; Gaurav Setty – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article advances an explanation for the dynamics of agencies and institutions responsible for the formation of skills in nineteenth-century western India. It shows that multiple agencies - artisanal apprenticeship, indigenous schools, new "bazar" schools, modern vernacular and English schools, and institutes for technical,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Skilled Workers, Skill Development
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Sebastian Schneider; Matthias Pilz – Prospects, 2024
India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and the highest working-age population. The country has a particular demand for skilled labourers, especially at the semi-skilled level, in various sectors. However, many young people find it challenging to acquire the skills employers demand. To approach the issue of youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Supply and Demand, Employment Potential
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Marit Lensjø – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This narrative study followed 11 vocational teachers in the Building and Construction program and examined factors that influenced their transition from the construction site to upper secondary school. The recruitment path for most technical vocational teachers means moving directly from the construction site to the school, where they begin work…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Trade and Industrial Education, Construction Industry
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Charkasova, Aynur – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The demand for U.S. temporary workers has doubled since the 1990s, especially after the technology boom. American employers have benefited from hiring foreign talent for STEM occupations. Despite the mandatory prevailing wage regulations, temporary skilled immigrants have been criticized for their "willingness" to work for lower wages.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Salary Wage Differentials, Skilled Workers, Science Careers
Sumaya Frick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a study of policy stakeholders (N = 24) in four countries within the regional Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) policy environment. The scope was to identify how they navigated and interpreted conceptualizations of TVET and general education, which have been explicitly tied to national and regional…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development, Poverty
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