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Haimson, Joshua; VanNoy, Michelle – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2004
Many high school and two-year college vocational programs are exploring new ways to help students develop and document skills valued in the labor market. Over the past decade, some efforts to improve vocational programs have focused on reorganizing curricula around skill standards and assessments formulated by employers. One recent example of this…
Descriptors: Credentials, Certification, Information Technology, Labor Force Development
Watkins, Karen – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning: The Changing Workplace A, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document examines the roles, skills, and methods used by facilitators of workplace learning in light of a social action view of learning. The following…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies
Charner, Ivan; Fox, Shirley – 1989
This document consists of a leader's guide that tells how to conduct a 1-day workshop and a workbook used by workshop participants to develop action plans to improve workplace literacy and the collaboration skills needed to implement those plans. It is intended that workshop participants should consist of 10-15 community members.) A memorandum in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Change Agents
Welton, Michael – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, The Changing Workplace: Part B, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document constructs a framework for exploring the concept of the workplace as a learning environment that is in fact the primary school for adult learning and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies
Watkins, Peter – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, The Changing Workplace: Part B, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document examines current thinking regarding knowledge and control in workplaces emphasizing flexible production systems, flexible technology, and a flexible work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Bernard, Elaine – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning: The Changing Workplace A, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document examines the relationship between technological change and skills development. The following topics are discussed: the new technological…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Noe, Raymond A. – 2002
This book presents the main principles of strategic training, which is an approach to employee training and development that supports the employing organization's business goals and strategy. The book is intended for use in undergraduate and master's-level training courses in a variety of disciplines. The following are among the topics covered:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Career Development
Jackson, Nancy – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning: The Changing Workplace B, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. Section 1 looks mostly at male-dominated trades work and at some historical modes of the flexing of political muscle in struggles over the definition of work and skill. It…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Clerical Occupations
Carman, Priscilla; Van Horn, Barbara; Hamilton, KayLynn; Williams, Mary Kay – 2002
This guide contains activities and resources to help adult learners develop the work-based foundation skills and knowledge areas included on the Foundation Skills Framework wheel (Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy 2000). Its four sections (basic employability skills, basic workplace knowledge, basic workplace skills, and lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences. – 2000
This student activity book and reference book, which are part of a family and consumer sciences education series focusing on a broad range of employment opportunities, are intended for use in one- and two-year food production, management, and services programs for Texas high school students. The reference book provides information needed by…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Competence