Adopting an Interdisciplinary Teaching-learning Approach
Making meaningful connections across disciplines and actively engaging in authentic, real-life problem solving should be at the heart of education.
Effective Happy TVET Project Team
Building an effective happy TVET project team on an international development project is usually challenging, considering the mix of personnel engaged and real obstacles on the ground. Traditional team-building approaches are enhanced by using additional measures to turn an effective team into one that is also a happy team.
Higher Education Institutions Need to More Effectively Articulate the Relevance of Graduate Attributes to Their Students
There is an abundance of data available, which provides convincing evidence about what employers really expect their employees to have in the way of skills and attributes. They Need Generic…
Learning by Listening, Transcribing and Remembering in Vocational Education.
The idea that learners can learn by listening, transcribing, and remembering, is more akin to the traditional model of teaching – as it is commonly perceived – where the teacher…
Learning by Critical Thinking in Vocational Education.
Critical thinking is the application of appropriate skills and strategies in order to obtain the desired outcome. It involves monitoring thinking processes, checking whether progress is being made towards the…
Learning Through Enquiry in Vocational Education.
Learning through enquiry is a good pedagogical approach. For example, the ‘enquiry’ approach is often used to describe a philosophical approach to developing learners’ thinking, for example in schools where…
Learning by Real-World Problem-Solving in Vocational Education.
Learning by attempting to solve real-world problems can be a highly effective means of developing expertise. Learn PBL from Medical Education ‘Problem-based learning’ (PBL) is an enquiry-based approach to problem-solving…
Learning by Teaching and Helping in Vocational Education
Learners themselves can learn by teaching and helping one another. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1) developed the concept of ‘communities of practice’. This refers to groups of people undertaking…
Learning Through Conversation in Vocational Education
Conversation in the workplace sometimes referred to as ‘watercooler talk’, is an essential aspect of learning (1). Ann Baker and colleagues have shown precisely how an executive team goes about…