Overview
- First book to embrace professional education and cultural diversity Helps educational stakeholders to handle multiculturality
- Explains how the school-to-work transition can benefit from diversity
Part of the book series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (TVET, volume 17)
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This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students’ transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks whether increasing multiculturalism in developed societies, often seen as a challenge to their cohesion, is in fact a potential advantage in an evolving employment sector. This is a vital and under-researched field, and this new publication in Springer’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training series provides analysis both of theory and empirical data, submitted by researchers from nine nations including the USA, Oman, Malaysia, and countries in the European Union.
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The papers trace the origins of business demand for diversity in their workforce’s skill set, including national, local and institutional contexts. They also consider how social, demographic, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity inform the attitudes of those seeking work—and those seeking workers. With clear suggestions for future research, this work on a topic of rising profile will be read with interest by educators, policy makers, employers and careers advisors.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Demand for Cultural and Social Diversity
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Responses from the school-to-work transition systems
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Conclusion
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural and Social Diversity and the Transition from Education to Work
Editors: Guy Tchibozo
Series Title: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5107-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5106-4Published: 29 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9827-4Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5107-1Published: 28 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1871-3041
Series E-ISSN: 2213-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Labor Economics