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American Vocational Association, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1972
The October 1972 national conference, conducted by the Industrial Arts Division of the American Vocational Association (AVA), focused on the role of industrial arts in career education. The purpose of the document, which is based on presentations and summaries from various work groups, is to more clearly delineate the interrelationships between…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs
American Vocational Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1988
Five presentations are provided. "Technology Teacher Education: A Framework for Program Redesign" (Thomas Erekson, Scott Johnson) discusses the design and development of a technology teacher education program at the University of Illinois with lists of course requirements and illustrations of course sequence. "Teacher Preparation in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Industrial Arts Teachers
Aston Univ., Birmingham (England). – 1980
A conference was convened as a forum for second language educators to exchange ideas on the second language needs of international business. This report includes a transcription of the discussions that took place as well as several brief papers describing locally used methods of language assessment and an innovative program. A consensus of the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Industrial Education, Language Skills, Personnel Needs
Ain-Shams Univ., Cairo (Egypt). Inst. of Environmental Studies and Research. – 1988
The objectives of this workshop were to: (1) familiarize participants with the development of environmental education (EE) and its need and place in industrial education (IE); (2) orient participants with guidelines for the incorporation of EE into school curricula and teacher training for industrial schools; (3) enhance exchange of information…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
College of Arts, Science and Technology, Kingston (Jamaica). – 1988
This seminar was organized to: (1) study the place and need of environmental education (EE) in the context of technical and vocational education; (2) develop strategies for the incorporation of EE into the curriculum and teacher-training for pre-university industrial schools; (3) develop prototype EE materials for incorporation into the curriculum…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
National Association of Industrial Technology, Ypsilanti, MI. – 1986
Abstracts of the following 52 papers are included in this document: "Development of a Computer-Automated Mechanical Testing System" (Aman); "Bringing Industry High-Tech into the School Curriculum" (Andrews); "Fostering Excellence in Industrial Technology Faculty and Programs" (Bensen); "World Markets and…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Construction Materials, Construction (Process), Curriculum Development
Rutledge, Gene; And Others – 1975
This report includes the presentations of the speakers appearing before the National Clinic on Technical Education. Topics cover human resource development; the impact of technical education on economic development (in Mississippi); economics of allied health education; manpower implications of environmental protection; manpower needs for…
Descriptors: Career Education, Conference Reports, Conferences, Educational Development
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. Inst. for Higher Educational Opportunity. – 1972
Recommendations for maintaining relevant programs which resulted from this meeting of college and university presidents and administrators are applicable to all colleges and universities offering programs of agriculture in the region. Given in this report are two major presentations entitled "The Integration of Knowledge in a Specialized Society"…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agriculture, Business, Conference Reports
Das, Bikram K., Ed. – 1985
A collection of papers presented at a seminar conducted at the Regional Language Centre (Singapore) on communicative language teaching includes: "Integrating the New and the Old in a Communicative Approach" (William T. Littlewood); "Communicative Competence and Language Teaching: Second Thoughts" (Christina Bratt Paulston); "Communicative…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Developing Nations, Educational Strategies
Turner, Solveig M., Ed. – CIHED Newsletter, 1981
This issue--an international overview of cooperative/work experience education--contains ten case studies and four student viewpoints. It begins with an article discussing types of cooperative/work experience programs, including those focused on in the case studies. A second article previews the Second World Conference on Cooperative Education.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Higher Education
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1985
The papers of this proceedings are presented in three parts. The four papers in part 1, "Issues in 20th Century American Education", discuss the women graduates of Oberlin College, 1836-1860, the Americanization of art museums, the business community's response to government's support of the labor movement, and the response of liberalism…
Descriptors: Art, Black Colleges, Business Education, Children
Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Guelph (Ontario). – 1985
These proceedings contain 28 papers (20 in English and 8 in French), including the following: "Beyond Ideology: The Case of the Corporate Classroom" (Zinman); "De quelques dimensions paradoxales de l'education interculturelle" (Ollivier); "Ideology, Indoctrination and the Language of Physics" (Winchester);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students
Bossort, Patty, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This conference summary contains 36 presentations. Participants' comments, taken from response cards, are quoted throughout. Presentations from the Opening Plenary include a keynote address--"What Is Literacy?: Critical Issues for the Next Decade" (John Ryan) and four "Panelist Presentations" (Francis Kazemek, Lorraine Fox,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Involvement, Community Services
Bartram, Peter E., Ed. – 1984
These proceedings contain 24 papers in English and 3 papers in French: "Adult Education and the Social Sciences" (Draper); "Readability as Applied to an ABE (Adult Basic Education) Assessment Instrument" (Taylor, Wahlstrom); "Quality of Worklife: Adult Education Administrators Speak Out" (McKee, Murphy); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students
Miguel, Richard J., Ed. – 1985
These proceedings summarize the information exchanged at a teleconference involving more than 3,000 participants focusing on the following aspects of the relationship between schooling and employment: (1) what employers are looking for in employees, (2) employers' priorities in making hiring decisions, and (3) education and training on the job.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Cooperative Programs