Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Adult & Continuing Education

Learning and life are filled with uncertainty. Although the experience of uncertainty can cause emotional discomfort or cognitive rigidity, uncertainty serves as a catalyst and condition for change. In this way, uncertainty...

This book uses the life stories of principals of higher education institutions in Barbados to assert that since lives are socially constructed and our biographies or stories can influence our professional life, it is important to not only listen to the personal stories or narratives of those whose professional lives and actions have public social consequences but more importantly through a life history methodology, also to contextualize those stories. In so doing there is better understanding of what motives or values persons bring to their professional practice, particularly too, if those...

Flexibilität ist in der betrieblichen Berufsausbildung in Großunternehmen als Reaktion auf sich im Wandel befindende Einflussfaktoren wie der Digitalisierung und dem demografischen Wandel unverzichtbar. Besonders hauptamtliche Ausbilder*innen können diese entscheidend prägen. Durch die Einnahme neuer Rollen wie zum Beispiel der des Lernprozessbegleiters wird ein flexibleres Handeln möglich, was wiederum die Anpassungsfähigkeit der Ausbildungsabteilung im Ganzen stärkt. Johanne F. Kitzler entwickelt im Verlauf des vorliegenden Buches ein ganzheitliches Konzept, durch das...

This open access book looks into the roles and practices of small and micro-enterprises in formal and informal economies across seven countries and one territory in terms of how they contribute to environmental and sustainable development and green skills promotion. By taking into account the perspectives in these four sectors, catering, automotive, waste management and polyvinyl chloride production, this book maps environmental green practices in the region, identifying mechanisms used to assess existing skills (i.e. knowledge, skills and competencies), and  evaluating the potential...

This open access book looks into the roles and practices of small and micro-enterprises in formal and informal economies across seven countries and one territory in terms of how they contribute to environmental and sustainable development and green skills promotion. By taking into account the perspectives in these four sectors, catering, automotive, waste management and polyvinyl chloride production, this book maps environmental green practices in the region, identifying mechanisms used to assess existing skills (i.e. knowledge, skills and competencies), and  evaluating the potential...

This book brings together the diverse narratives of researchers’ personalized stories about the process of doing doctoral research (PhD) in the field of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and about the life after the completion of such life-forming experience. The narratives go beyond the academic to discuss the different ways in which doctoral study in the field of environmental and sustainability education is experienced at the personal and professional level. Contributors are located in different countries in Europe, Australasia and Latin America. The different countries...