Education & Training

Mentoring is a burgeoning activity, occurring in a large variety oforganisational settings. Although the gains for all parties are wellrecognised the emphasis in much of the mentoring literature is on benefitsfor recipients. This study highlights the lack of attention paid to me…

This thesis studies methods of teaching and learning in undergraduate chemistry laboratory courses, in order to relate different groups of laboratory aims to different styles of laboratory courses and to examine important factors which are affecting the achievement of the aims. …

This multi-site qualitative study focused on mature students'meanings for and experiences of learning inside and outside formaleducation. Its purpose was to ascertain how influences of lifelonglearning shape adults' expectations and experiences of returning to aformal learning s…

This thesis is based on research into the subjective views and experiences of a group of black women student teachers. It is through the women's own voices that an insight is given into the experience of teacher training for black women. The women's motivations to enter initial …

We have attempted to present a model of analysis of the distinguishing features of the nature and functions of the process and context of reproduction of educational discourse. The starting point is a double interest, basically defined by (1) the analysis of the means of the con…

Part A looks at a number of countries' experience in the field of

This research aimed to develop, implement and evaluate an Internet curriculum for pre-service teachers in Egypt within a constructivist learning environment. Accordingly, this study included the development of the content and objectives of the Internet curriculum, the design of …

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and investigate the barriers from both an academic and practical perspective, towards vocational training process in particular training needs assessment (TNA), training objective development, trainee selection methodologies, and program…

As a result of the growing use of computers and continuing improvements in communication technologies, there has been an accelerating growth of LANs on campus and WANs between campuses. The developed countries, such as the USA and UK, are developing high-speed networks to establ…

The topic of this research is an enquiry into the field of values and the policies related to them, in the context of Arab education. The objective is to contribute to ALESCO's research in the field of philosophy of Arab education and the practical problems related to it. The ap…

The significance of political education is recognized by most countries in accomplishing the desired values in the society, but differs in form according to their ideologies. This research, is an attempt to study the different approaches to the teaching of political-education in…

This study explores the quality assurance mechanisms in primary teacher education

Laboratory based practical work has been considered as one of the "Sacred Cows" of chemistry teaching for many years. However, attempts to measure the benefits of the laboratory experience to which learners are subjected, with regard to how much learning actually occurs, reveale…