And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ... Career programs that equip young people with the skills necessary to ...

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And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... Career programs that equip ...

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The original OTA report on technology and education (OTA, 1988) dealt with the entire field. ... One area of that report dealt with teacher education. Then in 1995, OTA commissioned a series of studies dealing specifically with technology and teacher education. ... But a growing dissatisfaction with quantitative empirical research spawned other research paradigms. ... The greater differences, as we see it, are in what they do with the data and the purpose of the research. ...

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