Download or read book The Vocational Quest written by Helen Connell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of what education is for. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between educations concerned with concepts and training, or with skills. The challenge now is to define how the schools can give young people the foundations for life in a working world in which they are likely to have to change jobs and where work will fill a smaller proportion of their lives. The Vocational Quest maps the evolution of vocationalism in Britain in historical terms and examines how the particular forms that have come into being in the last few years compare with developments in other parts of the world, including Continental Europe, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It argues for new forms of communication and partnership between formal education and training and the wider community, in which values will be shared and no one partner will win at the expense of others.
Download or read book Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose written by William M. Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable experiment lasting over a decade, a group of 88 independent campuses, ranging from comprehensive universities to intimate colleges, have demonstrated the value of an emerging educational agenda focused on meaning and purpose. These programs have shown that college can provide emerging adults with an understanding of themselves within today's insecure and highly competitive world that enhances their ability to develop the "grit" needed to create meaningful lives. By focusing on the exploration of vocation and its theological foundations, the programs have produced remarkable outcomes in enhanced student engagement in the learning process and more effective entry into adult life. Discernment of vocation provides for many students a synthetic and compelling focus for intellectual and practical exploration. Sustained by articulate reflection and grounded in communities of learning that include faculty as well as students, undergraduate life takes on new significance and urgency. Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose analyzes a series of successful efforts to reconfigure undergraduate education as a journey toward life purpose. Examining the experiences of students and faculty, William M. Sullivan reveals the concrete importance of this educational agenda for individual lives and particular campuses. By connecting the several dimensions of undergraduate experience through reflection on purpose, Sullivan demonstrates how these programs expanded the bandwidth of academic learning in energizing and exploratory ways. Within the larger, troubled environment of contemporary higher education, these pioneering efforts hold promise for a significant rethinking of the undergraduate experience to better serve students and society.
Download or read book Vocational Engagement Model written by Nicholas A. Villani and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the moment where you are working in the field providing employment services for people with disabilities and realize that the structure, or lack thereof, has contributed to the ongoing lack of progress, Imagine that moment where you see other disciplines such as education and medical fields engaging in their services in a more effective manner that makes every day in your job seem chaotic and redundant. Finally, imagine that there was this illuminating moment where it seemed as if you may have found the answer to the question "Why can't we make the progress we so desperately want?" That is the origin and implementation of the Vocational Engagement Model.The Vocational Engagement Model (VEM) presents the intersection of different disciplines to rethink job placement services as they are offered to people with disabilities today. The model connects aspects of the medical, educational, and rehabilitation disciplines in a process to improve the skills of the people who seek assistance to find and keep employment. VEM transcends the traditional format for job placement services, as defined by state VR systems. It is designed to manage the job placement service and exemplify cost optimization and job-seeker engagement. VEM intends tomore fully engage the job seeker, their family and circle of support in the entire job search process;establish a "career quest" agreement on how services will be provided and establish the level of commitment and required activities for both the job seeker and career consultant;learn how to use a series of assessment instruments that will assist the career consultant to best counsel the job seeker with use of metacognitive skills;manage the job placement service both structurally and fiscally for cost optimization to minimize time from referral to placement, thereby facilitating personal engagement while managing the hours toward profitability; andestablish Vocational Engagement Teams (VET) to create peer support systems and maximize staff skill and supports, not unlike "rounds" in the medical model;The Vocational Engagement Model is the evolutionary change in the provision of job placement services. It encourages "guardrails" for staff to work within while retaining their own creativity. The end result is total personal engagement, management of the job placement process with true cost optimization.
Download or read book Career Quest for College Graduates written by Robert Uda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Quest for College Graduates is a sequel to the highly successful 'Career Quest for College Students". This sequel builds upon the foundation of the earlier treatise. Career Quest for College Graduates introduces the 'Uda Bomb", i.e., key message box, which includes principles, strategies, and tactics for building a successful career. For example, feast on some of these secret ordnances from the Uda Bomb arsenal: UB1-Go with your passion. UB2-You never go wrong by always telling the truth. UB3-Dress to express, not to impress. UB4-Be a good networking node and you will go far in life. UB5-Hiring managers will hire people just like themselves. UB6-You are only worth what you accept. UB7-Remember, if you are not growing, you are dying. UB8-Nothing worthwhile is easy to achieve. UB9-We become proficient at whatever we spend most of our time doing. UB10-Plan to leave this world a better place because you lived in it. If you read, internalize, and live all of the principles, strategies, and tactics enclosed in over 230 Uda Bombs, you will be well on your way to a successful career. Add this power-packed ordnance package to your arsenal.
Download or read book Career Quest for College Students written by Robert Uda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Quest for College Students is an invaluable bonanza for anyone graduating from college. Author Bob Uda brings nearly 40 years of experience acquired while forging a successful career as an engineer, manager, executive, and business owner in the aerospace and defense industries. As an adjunct faculty lecturer in "Career Development," Uda teaches students how to win lucrative jobs. As president and principal consultant of his own career-coaching firm, Uda counsels clients in capturing sought-after jobs. Career Quest for College Students reveals discovered secrets including: Writing resumes that pack a punch, grab attention, hook hiring managers, and Wow them into calling you for interviews Teaching interviewing strategies that generate job offers Coaching negotiating techniques and tactics that maximize job offers Trains you how to be successful in your jobs Career Quest for College Students is a goldmine for all college students pursuing, forging, and building a successful, lifelong career.
Download or read book Career Quest for Young Professionals written by Robert T Uda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Quest for Young Professionals provides strategies and tactics that you can apply in the workplace to maintain a competitive edge over peers. It includes principles, secrets, and ideas for achieving significant accomplishments that win you promotions, raises, awards, perquisites, and choice assignments. Career Quest for Young Professionals will open eyes, cause outside-of-the-box thinking, and promulgate paradigm shifts. Career Quest for Young Professionals: How to Maintain a Competitive Edge Over Your Peers works hand-in-hand with four of Uda's other related books. They are as follows: Career Quest for College Graduates: Developing a Successful Career by Leveraging Each of Your Jobs Career Quest for College Students: Career Development for Those Who Plan to Have a Successful Career Resumes That Pack a Punch! Creating Beefy Bullets That Grab, Hook, and Wow Hiring Managers into Calling You for an Interview What Hue Is Your Bungee Cord? Job Searching Strategies for Those Over 40 Years of Age If you learn, internalize, and apply the principles enclosed in this book, you will traverse the fast track up your company's organization.
Download or read book Career s Quest Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession written by Shubham Shukla and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession" is a comprehensive guide to mastering your career written by Shubham Shukla, a leading expert in career development. This book provides practical tips, exercises, and strategies for self-assessment, goal-setting, navigating the workplace, professional development, and career advancement. This book is perfect for young professionals, mid-career professionals, and anyone looking to take control of their career and achieve success in the modern workplace. The book is filled with real-world examples, case studies, and expert advice to help readers overcome the challenges and obstacles they'll encounter on their path to career mastery. With this book, you'll learn how to identify your strengths and weaknesses, set personal and professional goals, build a professional development plan, understand organizational culture, and build strong relationships in the workplace. Get your copy now and take the first step towards mastering your career!
Download or read book The Disciples Call written by Christopher Jamison, OSB and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently no shared language of vocation among Catholics in the developed, post-modern world of Europe and North America. The decline in practice of the faith and a weakened understanding of Church teaching has led to reduced numbers of people entering into marriage, religious life and priesthood. Uniquely, this book traces the development of vocation from scriptural, patristic roots through Thomism and the Reformation to engage with the modern vocational crisis. How are these two approaches compatible? The universal call to holiness is expressed in Lumen Gentium has been read by some as meaning that any vocational choice has the same value as any other such choice; is some sense of a higher calling part of the Catholic theology of vocation or not? Some claim that the single life is a vocation on a par with marriage and religious life; what kind of a theology of vocation leads to that conclusion? And is the secular use of the word 'vocation' to describe certain profession helpful or misleading in the context of Catholic theology?
Download or read book The Quest for Vocational Adjustment in the Profession of Education written by Walter Ellsworth Hager and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training written by David Guile and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training written by international experts The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With contributions from a panel of leading international scholars, the Handbook contains 27 authoritative essays from a wide range of disciplines. The contributors present an integrated analysis of the complex and dynamic field of VET. Drawing on the most recent research, thinking, and practice in the field, the book explores the key debates about the role of VET in the education and training systems of various nations. The Handbook reveals how expertise is developed in an age of considerable transformation in work processes, work organization, and occupational identities. The authors also examine many of the challenges of vocational education and training such as the impact of digital technologies on employment, the demand for (re)training in the context of extended working lives, the emergence of learning regions and skill ecosystems, and the professional development of vocational teachers and trainers. This important text: Offers an original view of VET’s role in both the initial and continuing development of expertise Examines the theories and concepts that underpin international perspectives and explores the differences about the purposes of VET Presents various models of learning used in VET, including apprenticeship, and their relationship with general education Explores how VET is shaped in different ways by the political economy of different countries Reviews how developments in digital technologies are changing VET practice Discusses the challenges for universities offering higher vocational education programs Draws on both recent research as well as historical accounts Written for students, researchers, and scholars in the fields of educational studies, human resource development, social policy, political economy, labor market economics, industrial relations, sociology, The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training offers an international perspective on the topic of VET.
Download or read book The Quest for Purpose written by Perry L. Glanzer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher educations purpose. While the search for meaning and purpose appears to be a constant throughout human history, there are characteristics about our current time period that make this search different from any other previous time, particularly for college students. In this book, Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron R. Johnson explore college students search for meaning and purpose and the role that higher education plays. To shed empirical light on this complex issue, the authors draw on in-depth interviews with four hundred college students from different types of institutions across the United States. They also analyze three sets of national survey data: the National Study of Youth and Religion, College Students Beliefs and Values, and their own Gallup-conducted survey of 2,500 college students. Their research identifies important social, educational, and cultural influences that shape students quests and the answers they find. Arguing against a utilitarian view of education, Glanzer, Hill, and Johnson conclude that colleges and universities can and should cultivate and aid students in their journeys, and they offer suggestions for doing so.
Download or read book Career Quest written by Mary Rose Remington and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Quest is a spiritual guide to help people find work they love. Packed with practical tips, and emotional support for readers seeking meaningful, energizing work. "A unique and thought-provoking perspective on purpose." "A marvelous short course on getting the most out of life and work."
Download or read book The Diverse Forms of Tech prep written by Alan M. Hershey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing Vocation Differently written by David S. Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many colleges and universities have begun using the language of vocation and calling to help undergraduates think about the future direction of their lives. This language is used in both secular and religious contexts, but it has deep roots in the Christian theological tradition. Given the increasingly multi-faith context of undergraduate life, many have asked whether this terminology can truly serve as a new vocabulary for higher education. If vocation is to find a foothold in the contemporary context, it will need to be re-examined, re-thought, and re-written; in short, higher education will need to undertake the project of hearing vocation differently. In this third volume on vocation from editor David S. Cunningham, the thirteen contributing scholars identify with a wide variety of religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. Some contributors identify with more than one of these; others would claim none of them. The authors met on multiple occasions to read common texts, to discuss agreements and differences, and to respond to one another's writing; some of these responses are included at the end of each chapter. Both individually and collectively, these contributors expand the range of vocational reflection and discernment well beyond its traditional Christian origins. The authors observe that all undergraduate students--regardless of their academic field, religious background, or demographic identity-need to make space for reflection, to overcome obstacles to discernment, and to consider the significance of their own narratives, beliefs, and practices. This, in turn, will require college campuses to re-imagine their curricular and co-curricular programming in order to support their students's reflection on issues of meaning, purpose, and identity.
Download or read book Handbook of Psychology Assessment Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Download or read book Career Quest written by Nancy A McMahon and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom of the Self written by Jeffrey F. Keuss and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of the Self revitalizes the question of identity formation in a postmodern era through a deep reading of Christian life in relation to current trends seen in the Emergent and Missional church movements. By relocating deep identity formation as formed and released through a renewed appraisal of kenotic Christology coupled with readings of Continental philosophy (Derrida, Levinas, Marion) and popular culture, Keuss offers a bold vision for what it means to be truly human in contemporary society, as what he calls the "kenotic self." In addition to providing a robust reflection of philosophical and theological understanding of identity formation, from Aristotle and Augustine through to contemporary thinkers, Freedom of the Self suggests some tangible steps for the individual and the church in regard to how everyday concerns such as economics, literature, and urbanization can be part of living into the life of the kenotic self.
