This case study provides viewpoints of knowledge sharing by expert teaching professors and their mentees. Professors who were recognized as expert teachers with an annual award at a mid-western USA university were the units of analysis of this study. Expert teaching professors had difficulty articulating much of their teaching expertise. The…

The author presents a concise sketch of what has happened since the State of Arizona legislature made a strong commitment to high quality career and vocational educational programs. The focus on career education has resulted in both qualitative and quantitative improvements in the State's vocational education. (Author/BP)

In 2004, the College of Education at Oklahoma State University began the task of building a partnership with the Defense Ammunition Center (DAC) in McAlester, Oklahoma, and implementing research-driven, experience-based workforce education. In this article, the authors describe unique features and challenges of this multi-year…

A two-part questionnaire survey was conducted of California vocational, general, and academic high school teachers to ascertain their opinions toward career education and to identify differences in teacher background and experiences which correlated with favorable opinions of career education. The opinionnaire reflected five of the major concepts…

Reported on is a study which administered the Attitudes towards Career Education Inventory to members of State advisory counsils on vocational education, finding them generally favorable but minimally interested. The inventory and a memorandum of agreement between the Department of Labor and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare are…

Contributions include awareness of needs for linking today's educators to future options, for constantly assessing oneself for setting goals and making decisions, and for considering career education as a life long process. (MU)

Quantitative and qualitative bias in favor of professional work modes was found to exist in elementary reading textbooks. (MS)

A conceptual model is described which results from the need to organize world of work knowledge to enable curriculum developers to prepare accurate, realistic instructional materials. (MS)