Research and practice: building the links: conference papers of the Victorian VET research conference, 12-13 October 1995, held at Edmund Barton Centre, Melbourne

The Research Conference was divided into four main streams: Training and Workplace Reform; Open Learning and Flexible Delivery; Strategic Directions in VET; and Developing VET Practitioners and Researchers. The following papers are from the Developing VET Practitioners and Researchers stream: (1) Not just academic: research in practice, the professional development project - Lyndall Jones; (2) Best practices of a ‘return to industry’ professional development program in tourism and hospitality - Sam McCurdy; (3) The wisdom of hindsight: training reform within the Ford Motor Company (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1990-1995 - Catherine Down, Noel Miller; (4) Developing and recognising work based professional development programs: research informing practice - Julie Ahern, Jane Perry and Veronica Volkoff; (5) Diploma in adult education - Francesco Pagliarella, Frank Bower, Robert Gowing and Viktor Jakupec; (6) Action learning as an example of work based learning - John P. Kelleher and Josephine Murray; (7) Professional development for VET practitioners - Rosalind King; (8) A learner-driven M.ED: a pilot program - Martin Comte; (9) Myth and mastery in training design and delivery - Maureen Ryan; (10) Casing the joint: case study methodology in organisational research - Andrew Smith; (11) Market research methods: a review of the market research needs of VET institutions - Annette Tamblyn; (12) Focusing on research methodology: managing a research project - Scott Holmes; (13) Writing research proposals: a generic format - Lisa Frank, Jane Osborn; (14) Evaluation of training and other programs - Hugh Guthrie; (15) Some thoughts on the past, present and future of VET research - Peter Thomson; (16) Researching the social organisation of educational practice - Terri Seddon, Lawrence Angus and Peter Rushbrook. Show less