The late Ottoman education policy implemented curriculum reforms adding science courses reduced to school children level. The modern science was popularised by supplementing public education with the new courses. Textbooks with illustrations efficiently introduced children to European material improvements and icons of progress. Between the years…

Examines problems of curricular inclusion, emphasizing ways of including the interests and contributions of women in social studies curricula. After describing the inadequacy of the "add women and stir" approach to inclusion, the paper discusses the tradition of care long identified with female life, then explores ways to preserve and…

A project adapted an existing problem-solving curriculum to help unemployed or underemployed displaced homemakers and single parents qualify for job placement and training. Forty-five adult learners from the New Choice program participated. Handouts adapted from a prior Math Employment project and instructor-created materials were used. Handouts…

An associate degree program, designed to train displaced homemakers as paraprofessional counselors, is described, including the on-the-job training experiences and the academic courses. An example of the general curriculum is included, along with an evaluation questionnaire to determine program appropriateness. Evaluation results are discussed in…

This package contains materials intended for use in a new home health aide curriculum that is designed to be presented as a two-quarter program at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Washington. Included in the package are a final report outlining the objectives and outcomes of the project to develop a home health aide curriculum that would meet…

This follow-up report examines the status of the recruitment and retention strategies implemented by Triton College in 1978 as part of an effort to utilize the marketing concept in identifying and meeting changing educational needs. The report first provides operational definitions for "institutional advancement,""marketing concept,""promotion,"…

Strategies are proposed for the implementation of the marketing concept at Triton College. The report begins by describing the establishment and goals of the Marketing Task Force and goes on to define "institutional advancement," as a positive, progressive response to community educational needs, and "the marketing concept," as suggesting an…

This report on progress in achieving the 1989 goals of the Kansas state plan for vocational education includes four parts and three appendices. Part 1 describes vocational education opportunities and accomplishments under Title II, Part A of the Perkins Act for: handicapped, disadvantaged, limited English proficient, adult training and retraining,…

The Lutheran Settlement House Women's Program has offered many different avenues of personal exploration for more than 5,000 women in its Philadelphia neighborhood for 6 years. The women's program components include adult basic education classes, self-development workshops, a community-based degree-oriented college program, a bilingual crisis…

For program year 1996-97, 222,639 North Carolina (NC) 9th-12th graders were enrolled in Workforce Development Education (WDE). Twenty-five curriculum products were developed, 34 course blueprints were revised to reflect business/industry practices and state/national standards, and about 3,600 business/industry personnel participated in WDE…

This performance report, required by federal regulations, indicates the level of achievement of the goals and objectives in the FY 1988-90 State Plan for Vocational Education in North Carolina. The first section of the report covers secondary education. Part 1 describes accomplishments in providing programs, services, and activities for special…

This annual performance report describes accomplishments achieved in Colorado through funding from the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. Four sections focus on four categories of initiatives. Section I addresses enhancement of services to students through the basic state grant under Title II, Part A. Vocational education opportunities are…

This performance report summarizes New Hampshire's use of federal vocational education funds for fiscal year 1991. Three sections on vocational education opportunities correspond to the categories of Carl D. Perkins Act funds: accomplishments under Title II-A; accomplishments in program improvement under Title II-B; and accomplishments in special…

This report highlights the accomplishments of three divisions of the Maine Bureau of Adult and Secondary Vocational Education for the years 1987-89. Information is reported for the following programs by the division of Adult and Community Education: (1) adult basic education and literacy; and (2) high school completion and equivalency programs.…

The Sex Equity Program at Santa Fe Community College continued to foster innovative approaches to overcoming sex-role stereotyping and discrimination in vocational education, training, and employment. It focused on four major areas: awareness/recruitment; education of students and staff at the college; support/job placement for enrolled…