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Steiner, Gerhard – 1983
Vocational education in Switzerland takes place mainly in three kinds of institutions. Apprentices receive training in small laboratories or workshops from a master, in larger companies from a special trainer, or in state or private workshops. Besides this job-oriented education, apprentices attend courses in vocational schools. Research in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Displaced Homemakers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research
Pogodda, Gerhard, Ed.; And Others – 1988
Economic and social policies are at the core of the job development process in the German Democratic Republic. New jobs must be available before the process of transfer of labor is actually initiated by further education and training of the work force. The acceleration of the rate of technological innovation has caused a demand for job change…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Change, Career Education, Developed Nations
Breen, Mary, Ed. – 1991
This handbook, to be used in literacy instruction programs, particularly with women, contains six articles concerning women and literacy written by women in Ontario. The articles are the following: "Feminism and Literacy" (Naomi Garber, Jenny Horsman, and Tracy Westell); "Looking at 'Ism's': Visible Minority Women and Literacy"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Disadvantaged, Displaced Homemakers
West, Linden – 1996
This book uses biographical, longitudinal, and reflexive methods to chronicle, analyze, and theorize about the personal and sociocultural dimensions of motivation in the biographies of adult learners. Following an introduction and explanation of research methods, chapter 3 examines the problem of stated reasons for learning and the arbitrariness…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning
Browning, Genia; Linn, Pamela – 1989
A project was designed to assist older unemployed people in London, England, with the transition to education, vocational training, and employment. The project involved the development of a local tourist guide course at Thames Polytechnic (England), the accreditation of this course, and employment of some of the participants as local tourist…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Community Education
Canadian Education Association, Toronto (Ontario). – 1988
This report describes programs and services school boards offer to women employees or women in the community. A special focus is innovative, nontraditional courses and services. The first section discusses offerings for school board staff. An overview of affirmative action/employment equity programs addresses their objectives and describes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Affirmative Action, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Coats, Maggie – 1999
In the United Kingdom, these two perspectives on lifelong learning sit uneasily together: emphasis on adults in employment and a focus on diversity and widening participation in adult education. A recent emphasis on accreditation with implications for funding has affected diversity and participation objectives because involving assessment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Developed Nations