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Fitzpatrick, Martin; Bonnefoy, Xavier – 1999
This publication is intended to serve as a practical guide to the development of relevant curricula for the education and training of environmental health professionals. This book aims to: (1) set out principles for developing policies on education and training for environmental health professionals at national and subnational levels; (2)…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Health Programs, Health Promotion
Nyquist, Jody D., Ed.; And Others – 1991
The 56 papers in this volume address issues central to the preparation of graduate teaching assistants (TA) as both scholars and future professors. It is noted that the majority of TA programs are infrequent workshops with either limited or no follow-up, and that the task of preparing the next generation of professors appears to be more complex…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Padzensky, Herb – 1976
The processes involved in staging successful inservice training, staff meetings, and task force sessions are described. Examples are provided and details are given for four phases of preparation: preplanning (including identification of need, setting priority objectives, and determining the type of group session); planning (covering such aspects…
Descriptors: General Education, Group Dynamics, Handicapped Children, Inservice Education
Kraus, Richard – 1978
Provision of recreation programs for the ill and disabled in both institutional and community settings is the subject of this textbook directed to college/university audiences. The underlying purpose in presenting the material is twofold: to provide a theoretical rationale for the development of therapeutic recreation services for such groups as…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Leadership Training, Mental Retardation, Older Adults
Grabowski, Stanley M. – 1976
This paper reviews and analyzes the literature dealing with training teachers of adults. Existing exemplary training programs and practices are identified and described, enabling practitioners to choose alternative models and programs for practice. Contents include: Need for the study; search of literature, needs of teachers; identified desirable…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Programs, Inservice Education
Lottes, John; And Others – 1973
The aim of this document is to provide an alternative for those teacher educators who are committed to the development of professional competence in teaching but who find the present Competency/Performance Based Teacher Education (C/PBTE) approach to be unsatisfactory in certain significant respects. It is proposed to replace the popularized…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Popiel, Elda S., Ed. – 1973
Thirty-two authors from a wide variety of backgrounds reflect trends concerning basic assumptions, theoretical concepts, goals, and processes in continuing education in nursing. The purpose of the book is to provide nurses and adult educators with a conventient reference to program designs, methods, methods of implementation, and learning aids.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Financial Support, Government Role, Inservice Education
Schechter, Daniel S. – 1974
The book describes the Hospital Continuing Education Project, a nine-year endeavor concluded in 1972 which set up a communications network among universities, hospital associations, hospitals, and individual educators and trainees. The project's goal was the expansion of continuing education opportunities for personnel in health care institutions.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Allied Health Occupations Education
Ryan, T. A., Ed. – 1973
This document is a compilation of papers on adult basic education in corrections presented at eight seminars held for decision makers in corrections. (The seminars provided training in the systems approach for planning and evaluating adult basic education programs for adult offenders in correctional institutions.) The first section focuses on the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Attitudes