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Khampirat, Buratin; McRae, Norah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Cooperative and Work-integrated Education (CWIE) programs have been widely accepted as educational programs that can effectively connect what students are learning to the world of work through placements. Because a global quality standards framework could be a very valuable resource and guide to establishing, developing, and accrediting quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship
Dulle, Paul J.; And Others – 1986
The paper examines the need and implementation of transitional employment programs for handicapped youth. Effects on the handicapped of future automation are considered along with the need for school-business cooperation to prepare for the future. The importance of initial success in any innovation is noted. A Chicago transitional employment…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Hospital Personnel, Placement
Angel, N. Faye; Mooney, Marianne – 1996
This paper focuses on how career and work activities can be incorporated into the everyday curricula of elementary students and made part of their records through use of Individual Career Development Portfolios (ICDP). It promotes use of the ICDP as both a collection of student works that result from career awareness activities and experiences…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Education Work Relationship
Bragg, Debra D. – 1996
Tech prep has been considered "dead" by some commentators, but that assessment is usually made only in cases in which tech prep was merely a new label for an unchanged course or program. In many cases, tech prep has become more widely implemented and accepted as real changes have been made. Many of the concepts of tech prep will remain even if the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Hernandez-Gantes, Victor M.; And Others – 1995
With growing population diversity a feature of both the work force and the schools, a study was conducted to explore what implications diversity has for school preparation. Data from a national longitudinal study of students enrolled in both secondary and postsecondary programs featuring emerging vocationalism (programs featuring tech prep,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Education Work Relationship, Educational Environment, Educational Needs
Padilla, Christine – 1997
A study described the experiences of elementary educators who are attempting to implement a districtwide School-To-Work (STW) reform effort in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools (MPS). The descriptions were derived from the first and second years of a 3-year evaluation of MPS's STW implementation plan. Data for the study were drawn from the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Involvement, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Axelrod, Valija M. – 1989
In the 1980s, interest in collaboration between vocational education and the private sector was stimulated by changes taking place in the economy and society (changes such as a maturing society, the lure of the sunbelt, the computer revolution, declining superpowers, rise of minorities, foreign competition, progress of women, and medical…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employers, Institutional Cooperation
McCready, Joan W. – 1990
Designed for community college faculty who plan to employ computers in their classrooms, this paper defines computer literacy as not only knowing how to use computers but also knowing when it is appropriate to do so. The paper provides examples of inappropriate uses of computer technology in education, presents a brief history of the…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Hamilton, Mary Agnes – 1982
Curricular domains relevant to work experience programs are motivation, sequencing, and goals. A case study of a project of institutional collaboration on peer counseling for work experience students (forming a consortium between a city school board of education and a community college) was made through data generated from the Youthwork National…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Titsworth, Tobie R.; Baum, James – 1993
The major negative factor to the full integration of televised instruction into the educational system has always been cost, either because of the initial investment or the time required to develop courseware. Resistance to change has always been and continues to be the greatest barrier to the use of all technologies in education. Countless…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Curriculum Development, Distance Education, Education Work Relationship
Halperin, Samuel – 1994
The School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA) qualifies as "historic" legislation for several reasons. STWOA is the first federal education legislation to declare that preparation for earning a living is a legitimate and important role of schooling for all students and the first education legislation to affirm that learning takes…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation
Chi, Cheng-Feng – 1996
Training of vocational education teachers should be closely linked to the industries in which the teachers are preparing to instruct students. A teacher training program in Taiwan has been designed with the cooperation of the metals manufacturing industry. In this four-year program, students are assigned to the industry to learn the product…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
San Diego State Univ., CA. – 1992
Project WORK was developed by San Diego State University and San Diego City Schools in California to prepare young people with disabilities for work and life after high school. The program teaches employment skills; supports students in their first work experience; works with students and their families to plan for the student's work and life…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Fahy, P.; McLean, A. – 1987
The Alberta Vocational Centre (AVC) Transitional Vocational (T-V) Program, in Edmonton, began in 1982. The program currently employs six instructors to provide a postsecondary employment-oriented program for mildly mentally disabled adults. The yearlong program is offered in two sessions and has an approximate enrollment of 30 incoming students…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Campbell, Clifton P. – 1985
Joint Ventures in Vocational Education projects link participating businesses with secondary vocational programs in a cooperative relationship. These are voluntary arrangements between vocational programs and a public or private sector agency that combine the energies and resources of the partners to enrich various aspects of the vocational…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs