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Peer reviewedFolinsbee, Sue Waugh – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1995
A collaborative, holistic, and integrated approach to workplace education is needed to deal with a complex workplace and world. Critical elements include financial and organizational commitment to education and training, comprehensive program evaluation, balanced emphasis on worker skills, a challenge to the deficit model, and alternatives to the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Holistic Approach, Literacy Education, Program Development
Download full textOrangeburg-Calhoun Technical Coll., Orangeburg, SC. – 1998
This packet of information was developed to be distributed as an informational referral tool for a workplace literacy project following an oral presentation by project staff. It includes the following sections: a managers' checklist; questions managers ask; manager's survey; information about workplace literacy; characteristics of work-based…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Employer Attitudes
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1980
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about electricians. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1980
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about industrial maintenance mechanics. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Leidig, Julie; And Others – 1993
This instructor's guide to mathematics instruction is one of the five books developed during a 21-month cooperative project to develop instructional materials that enhance skills in a workplace context. Partners in the project included the University of Texas at Austin, consultants, the Austin/Travis County Private Industry Council, Hart Graphics,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Course Content, Education Work Relationship
Leidig, Julie; And Others – 1993
This student edition of learning modules in refresher mathematics is one of the five books developed during a 21-month cooperative project to develop instructional materials that enhance skills in a workplace context. Partners in the project included the University of Texas at Austin, consultants, the Austin/Travis County Private Industry Council,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Course Content, Education Work Relationship
Smith, Jacqueline – 1996
A literature search revealed various definitions of literacy and various theories about how basic skills relate to occupational skills. For example, literacy was said to be defined within the context of a society and was often measured in society, rather than in isolation. Alarms were sounded about the many people in the United States who lack…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Definitions
Giere, Ursula; Hautecoeur, Jean-Paul – 1990
This bibliography focuses on research in adult literacy and basic education. The general categories, which were determined on the basis of the agenda of the conference for which it was prepared, include bibliographies; history of literacy/illiteracy; theory of literacy; literacy provision (examples from local to international); literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Developed Nations
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1980
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about machine tool operators. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1979
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about secretaries. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1979
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about account clerks. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1979
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about draftsmen. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1980
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about welders. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills
Guglielmino, Lucy Madsen; Byran, Valerie C. – 1990
This resource book provides information on developing a workplace literacy program, descriptions of Florida Workplace Literacy Programs, and an annotated bibliography of resources. An introduction discusses the problem of basic skills deficiencies, projections that indicate the problem will increase, the Florida context, and benefits realized when…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
The Literacy Requirements of an Automotive Mechanic on the Job and in a Vocational Training Program.
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1980
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about auto mechanics. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Auto Mechanics
