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Tanaka, Hiroshi – Personnel Journal, 1981
In Japan, learning through experience is incorporated into new employee training programs to help prepare employees mentally, physically, and emotionally for the increasingly complex challenges of corporate life. Discusses the year-long training program, corporate handbook revision, work experience, and physical and mental discipline. (CT)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Entry Workers, Industrial Training, Job Training
Download full textIwler, Irvin H.; And Others – 1982
This handbook is intended to serve as a resource for cooperative education coordinators who must instill in handicapped students an awareness and grasp of the job-seeking and job-maintenance skills that are so vital in today's competitive job market. Assembled in response to questions asked by vocational educators in Pennsylvania, the guide is…
Descriptors: Career Education, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Education, Disabilities
Airhart, Douglas L.; And Others – Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture, 1987
A horticultural training program was developed in conjunction with a prevocational program designed for students with limited ability to perform in a normal high school setting due to moderate intellectual impairment or socialization problems. Prior appraisal by the job developer of a client's adaptability to the program was required to provide…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Occupations, Cooperative Education, Developmental Disabilities
D'Alonzo, Bruno; And Others – 1990
Louisiana Tech University conducted a program to reduce drop-out probabilities for at-risk special needs adolescents as part of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Eighty-six students between the ages of 14 and 16 were chosen as "at-risk" based on economic disadvantage, lower academic performance, behavioral and adjustment problems,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Counseling, Dropout Prevention, Educational Attitudes
Belkin, Allen; Dries, Cindy – 1978
The goals of the Oswego County (New York) Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP) was to improve job-readiness posture and self-concept of unemployed youth and in-school youth. Two types of classroom training supported the major learning activity, which was work experience. These activities…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Mallory, Alva E., Jr.; Holder, Todd – 1978
A CETA youth project was designed to provide training in vocational awareness, self-awareness, coping skills, job skills, employability skills, career planning, and remedial reading. Over 500 youth between 14-21 were involved and many received computer interactional career training in coordination with an individualized career class. Significant…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Computer Assisted Instruction
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
