The Vocational Quest

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.

What happens when higher education is introduced to the exploration of meaning and purpose? Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose analyzes a remarkable experiment--lasting over a decade and encompassing 88 independent campuses--to reconfigure undergraduate education as a journey toward life purpose. It ties together the liberal arts, personal development, and preparation for life all through the exploration of vocation. -- Provided by publisher.

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.

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.

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.

"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!

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?

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.