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Competition as an Instructional Approach in School-Based, Agricultural Education (SBAE): A Historical Review
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Jones, Mason C.; Edwards, M. Craig – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the historical role of competition as an instructional approach in School-Based, Agricultural Education (SBAE). Pragmatism was found to be the philosophical underpinning of competition in SBAE, and the influences of William James and John Dewey were described. The growth of new National FFA…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Competition, Teaching Methods, Educational History
Criteria For Evaluation of Programs Resulting From Federal Legislation: Evaluation of Programs at Proprietary Business Schools
Fulton, Richard A.; Davis, Eugene W. – Nat Bus Educ Assn Yearbook, 1969
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Legislation, Educational Philosophy, Federal Programs
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, THE BRIDGE BETWEEN MAN AND HIS WORK. PUBLICATION 1, HIGHLIGHTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, 1968.
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Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1968
ISSUES AND PROBLEMS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ARE SUCCINCTLY PRESENTED IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT CONDENSED FROM THAT REQUIRED BY THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963--"VOCATIONAL EDUCATION--THE BRIDGE BETWEEN MAN AND HIS WORK, PUBLICATION 2." THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Reorienting Vocational Education. Policy Papers in Human Resources and Industrial Relations No. 7.
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Mangum, Garth L. – 1968
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 represented the first reconsideration of vocational education since 1917, and was the immediate product of a panel of consultants who found that vocational education was insensitive to changes in the labor market and to the needs of the various segments of the population. This report, an evaluation of that act,…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
Reauthorization: Vocational Education Act. Position Statement of National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education.
National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education. – 1981
The National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education takes the following position in four areas regarding the reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963: (1) In regard to governance of vocational education, the Association recommends the continuance of the cooordination of local, state, and federal governments.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Data Collection, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Oversight of Vocational Education, 1983. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session on Examination of the Federal Role in Future Reauthorization of Vocational Education (February 23-24, March 2-3, 1983).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1983
This document contains transcripts of U.S. Senate hearings leading to the reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act. During the hearings, testimony and/or prepared statements were given by the U.S. Secretary of Education, representatives of business and industry (especially the training sector), educators (especially vocational education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Adults, Disabilities