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Tracey Bowen; Maureen T.B. Drysdale; Sarah Callaghan; Sally Smith; Kristina Johansson; Colin Smith; Barbara Walsh; Tessa Berg – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study identifies gendered disparities among women students participating in work-integrated learning and explores the effects of the disparities on their perceptions on perceived opportunities, competencies, sense of belonging, and professional identity. Design/methodology/approach: A series of semi-structured focus groups were run…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, Work Experience Programs
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Brian Sengstock; Sonja Maria – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Work-integrated learning experiences of LGBTQIA+ students are rarely considered, with no specific consideration of paramedic students in this context. Students' perceptions of WIL and the challenges associated with navigating the off-campus clinical setting have highlighted the need for a sense of belongingness, safety and security, and a healthy…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Rukiya Curvey Johnson; Natalia Gallegos; Heather Hampton; Darius Caffey; Kimberly Bailey; Ellen Vigil; Tanea Culbreath-Byrd; Denise Jenkins; Angela Freeman – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2023
Students of color, first-generation, and residents of communities experiencing disinvestment--who aspire to obtain meaningful postsecondary degrees, career success, financial security, and social mobility--face tremendous challenges in navigating science, technology, engineering, math, and health science (STEM-H) education and career sectors. The…
Descriptors: Students, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Health Sciences
Bonnet, Deborah G.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted of Indiana's Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth (SPEDY) to describe the program themselves and to study the programs' effect on participants' short-term career education attitudes, knowledge, and skills. SPEDY is a training for public-sector work program operated each summer for about ten weeks for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
Magi Educational Services, Inc., Port Chester, NY. – 1979
The report presents an objective third-party assessment of the WALKABOUT program. Now in its third year in Northern Westchester County, New York, this program offers an optional learning environment for Grade 12 students in which the skills and self confidence needed to be effective adults are nurtured. In order to attain WALKABOUT program goals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communications, Counselor Attitudes, Educational Environment
Copen, Peter; And Others – 1980
The Walkabout program is an optional senior-year educational experience in which New York high school students can acquire the basic skills and confidence to take charge of their lives and contribute to the world. The year-long program is divided into 5 "challenge environments": wilderness (5 weeks); applied academics (18 weeks of health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication (Thought Transfer), Counselor Role, Educational Environment
Monkowski, Paul G. – 1979
An evaluation of the final year of the Lincoln, Nebraska, public schools experience-based career education (EBCE) program focused on three major components: student outcomes, parent evaluation, and community sites. The Career Maturity Inventory (CMI), the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR), and a locally developed survey…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Attitudes
Merrill, Barbara, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 51 papers from a conference devoted to the theme of exploring spaces in adult education. The following are among the papers included: "Exploring Everyday Spaces: Women's Transitions from Welfare to Paid Work and Education" (Cynthia Lee Andruske); "Lost in Space? Re-valuing the Impact of Education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students