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This publication addresses the pressing issues of vocational teacher education (VTE), focusing on institutional, organizational and governance aspects. Firstly, it summarizes the results of the four-year Erasmus+ capacity-building project "New Mechanisms of Partnership-based Governance and Standardization of Vocational Teacher Education in Ukraine" (PAGOSTE), funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. The project's focus has been governance in VTE in Ukraine. Secondly, it goes beyond the narrow project context and explores challenges as well as good practices in VTE systems of other countries in and outside of Europe.Therefore, contributions from England, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland complement the Ukrainian context and provide readers with a more comprehensive understanding of VTE systems.

This publication aspires to clarify and illustrate the role of higher education in promoting internationalisation, especially Internationalization at Home (IaH). It aims to highlight higher education's three central roles: teaching, research, and community service, each in its global context. The anthology actively promotes change and development in the higher education sector and identifies strategies like online learning platforms and community partnerships that make higher education more accessible and enhance its benefits. The publication comprises two interconnected sections: the first addresses the evolving classroom dynamics due to IaH, focusing on curriculum adaptations for a varied student body. The second section delves into educational goals, emphasizing an international perspective. Targeted at educators and researchers, the anthology offers guidance on integrating international and intercultural perspectives into curricula and teaching methods, with a focus on social inclusivity.

The ERiK-Methodological Report III is the third in as series of methodological report related to the 'Entwicklung von Rahmenbedingungen in der Kindertagesbetreuung - indikatorengestützte Qualitätsbeobachtung (ERiK)' study. The report focuses on the conception, sample selection, and survey designs of the ERiK-Surveys 2022. Together with the ERiK-Methodological Report I and II, it provides comprehensive background information on the ERiK-Surveys conducted in 2020 and 2022 up to the cutoff date of December 31, 2021. The subsequent steps taken in implementing the ERiK-Surveys 2022 will be described in a separate ERiK report, which is currently in progress and will be published at a later date.

When it comes to working and learning, collaboration is often the key to success. In a team, tasks can be completed more efficiently, complex issues are easier to grasp and, as we all know, learning is not only an individual but also a social process. The articles in this collection illustrate a variety of opportunities and challenges that the use of virtual spaces and virtual technologies presents for successful teamwork. The collections' aim is to contribute to exploratory research as well as pilot studies of concepts and methods in the use of virtuality, with contributions from different professional and application perspectives. The question of whether teamwork will increasingly take place in virtual space in the future is clearly answered in the affirmative. For this reason, it is necessary to continue to investigate the organisation of virtual collaboration in the future and to continuously develop new concepts for collaboration. This publication is a snapshot of these ongoing developments. It is intended to inspire practitioners to innovate in the design of collaboration in work and learning environments and to stimulate researchers in their future experiments and research approaches.

The volume presents research that emerges from the 9th international Adult Education Academy (2022), which brings together researchers, students and practitioners from around the world. More than80 participants from almost 20 different countries have exchanged, compared and expanded their individual knowledge and experience on adult learning and education.This volume assumes that globalisation affects national, regional and local levels of adult learning and education. Transformational relations are analysed through the lens of participation, sustainabilityand digitalisation. All contributions apply an international comparative research approach to empirically investigate these areas.This approach grounds on a set of rules and techniques, but also on a sensitivity with which we look at the world and its global needs while trying to understand.

The Talents empirical research had an unexpected finding: many companies in the research project regions are open to giving the best possible support to immigrants and refugees - not only because they are looking for new hires but also because they see it as their social duty to help the newcomers to find a job. Especially the staff members are motivated to support the new colleagues, contribute to their development and be mentors to them. However, public funding is urgently needed to implement industrial and language trainings.The book addresses employers interested in employing refugees but also practitioners from education and other facilitators of integration working immigrants. It provides them with a great number of best practices and ideas for effective pathways to create and manage learning processes for workplace language and professional learning for new international staff. The research study should inspire decision makers on the political and the system level to embed fast track labour market integration schemes in other existing programmes.

Competence orientation has become a defining element of vocational education in German-speaking countries. In this context, tasks are considered the "transmission belts" to implement the reformed educational standards. In her dissertation the author takes a view on the systematic analysis of task characteristics as a method to inspect the degree of tasks' cognitive requirements. The theoretical-conceptual part of the dissertation gives a psychological and didactical justification of the principles underlying the tasks' cognitive requirement. The effects are analysed in two empirical studies. The first study takes a look on the basis of accounting tasks from Chinese vocational school textbooks, using the structuring content analysis (Mayring, 2008). The second empirical study inspects accounting teachers' perceptions and judgments by interviews.Based on the results, the author develops suggestions for the use of the concept of tasks' cognitive requirement in the didactic training of (prospective) teachers at commercial schools.

The validation and recognition of prior non-formal and informal learning (VPL) is a priority of EUeducational policies and central to lifelong and life-wide learning. The aim is to strengthen theflexibility of learning pathways to increase labour market transition and mobility across Europe.Key objective is to enhance employability and labour market opportunities for disadvantagedindividuals such as the low skilled, unemployed, migrant workers, refugees and individuals withrestricted labour market and learning opportunities. This edited volume summarizes the mainfindings of the ERASMUS plus project "Effectiveness of VPL Policies and Programmes - Individualand Employer Perspectives" (Effect VPL), which was funded from 2016 to 2019. The contributions,which focus on the four participating countries Denmark, Germany, Poland and Turkey, providean overview of current topics in the field of VPL. They comprise theoretical as well as empiricalperspectives on VPL focusing, inter alia, on the socio-economic context, adult education andlifelong learning in Europe. Likewise, perspectives of those involved into VPL processes -individuals, employers, counsellors and trade unions - are presented and analysed. Hereby, thebook not only contributes to the scholarly debate on VPL in Europe, it furthermore offers handsonapproaches for VPL processes putting the individual at the centre of the validation process.