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Providing Employment Support for People with Long-Term Mental Illness. Choices, Resources, and Practical Strategies.
Ford, Laurie Howton – 1995
Designed for professionals in the field of mental illness and staff involved in providing on-the-job support for persons with mental illness, this book provides an overview of employment issues relevant to such workers. The 23 chapters of the book are organized in 5 sections. The first two sections provide background information about the clients…
Descriptors: Adults, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Potential, Job Development
Enterprise Learning in Action. Education and Economic Renewal for the Twenty-First Century. The Educational Management Series.
Shuttleworth, Dale E. – 1993
This book shows how young and unemployed people can be taught the enterprise skills to survive in an uncertain world. Chapter 1 addresses education and employment security. Chapter 2 explores current theory and practice to prepare for employment. Chapter 3 surveys public education programs designed to bridge the gap between school and employment.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Action, Community Development, Disadvantaged
Thursday's People on the Move!
Bowen, Uvelia S. A.; And Others – 1971
The book is intended as a relevant teaching tool for schools, churches, and other social agencies interested in upgrading the service occupations. It was developed from the experience of the Household Employment Association for Reevaluation and Training (HEART) in developing such a program into a non-profit, licensed, private trade school which…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Career Counseling, Case Studies, Community Education
Learning Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education. Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series.
Simon, Roger I.; And Others – 1991
Through discussions of teaching practice and actual lesson suggestions, this book clarifies how the viewpoint of critical pedagogy can be used to develop a clear and principled practice of work education. The introduction provides a brief discussion of how critical pedagogy is understood and how it relates to work education. Chapter 1 situates the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Compensation (Remuneration), Cooperative Education
The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in an Age of Globalization. Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture.
Ducatel, Ken, Ed.; Webster, Juliet, Ed.; Herrmann, Werner, Ed. – 2000
This book takes stock of the existing socioeconomic knowledge about a range of the core social issues of the information society. Chapter 1, "Information Infrastructures or Societies?" (Ken Ducatel, Juliet Webster, Werner Herrmann), is an introduction. Part 1, "Space, Economy, and the Global Information Society" looks at the processes of economic…
Descriptors: Communications, Computers, Democracy, Developed Nations
Toward a Federal Policy on Education and Work.
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Stern, Barry E. – 1977
Aspects of the relationship between education and work (career education) for youths and adults and directions for future federal policy in this area are identified in this document. Part 1 examines the problems that youths face in making a successful transition from school to work, including knowledge of the labor market, self-knowledge of…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Career Change, Career Education