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Folinsbee, Sue Waugh – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1995
A collaborative, holistic, and integrated approach to workplace education is needed to deal with a complex workplace and world. Critical elements include financial and organizational commitment to education and training, comprehensive program evaluation, balanced emphasis on worker skills, a challenge to the deficit model, and alternatives to the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Holistic Approach, Literacy Education, Program Development

Knell, Suzanne – Adult Learning, 1995
Offers step-by-step guidelines for creating effective team work in a workplace basic skills program, including preplanning, determining worker skills, developing curriculum, evaluating, and reporting the results. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Program Development

Mansoor, Inaam – Adult Learning, 1994
Good workplace education partnerships begin with honest assessment of the problems to be addressed, building of a vision or common mission, commitment to shared responsibility, identification of resources, and the decision to act in concert toward achieving common goals. Models include basic two-partner collaborations and multiple-industry or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Models, Needs Assessment, Partnerships in Education
Soifer, Rena; And Others – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1989
When labor, management, and literacy educators collaborate to develop a learner-centered literacy program, literacy educators must be willing to learn about the work and lives of industrial workers. The Academy at Eastern Michigan University is an alternative to traditional adult basic education that engages adults in collaborative learning.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Participative Decision Making
Bean, Robert – Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education, 1993
Core principles of successful workplace literacy programs are relevance, integration of literacy and job skills, flexibility, continuity, and shared ownership and accountability. Success often involves complex negotiations to balance needs of employers, employees, and educators. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Principles, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Ford, Donald J.; And Others – Training and Development, 1992
Discusses three forms of literacy--functional literacy, the ability to read and write, and workplace literacy. Includes "The Magnavox Experience" (Ford); "Aloha Means Goodbye to Workforce Illiteracy" (Beil); and "A Hospital's Prescription for Illiteracy" (Solovy-Pratt, Vicary). (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Functional Literacy, Illiteracy
Lewe, Glenda – 1990
The need for workplace skills upgrading has never been more acute. In Canada, many awareness-building initiatives for literacy have been started. The most successful efforts will probably be those based on a partnership model that links companies and unions with educators who understand adult learning styles. Before a workplace literacy program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Bergman, Terri – 1995
Studies have confirmed that there is a strong correlation between employees' levels of basic workplace skills and their productivity in the workplace. Programs to build basic workplace skills have been shown to yield the following positive results: more instances of employees using reading and writing on the job, higher employee participation in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
McCage, Ronald D. – 1994
This paper presents an overview and suggestions about the development of occupational and skill clusters by the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS), based on the observations of the executive director of the organization. Aspects reviewed include the following: development of occupational and skill clusters; classification…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Futures (of Society), Job Skills
Sarmiento, Tony – 1991
Workplace literacy programs can support the path toward either low wages or high skills. Instead of the "high skill" path, most U.S. companies follow the "low wage" path. Depending on who is involved, which program goals are selected, and what planning process is followed, a workplace literacy program can maintain outdated workplaces or foster…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices, Human Resources
Lytle, Susan L.; And Others – Literacy Practitioner, 1994
This issue contains five articles about assessment in adult literacy programs. The first article, "Living Literacy: Rethinking Adult Learner Assessment" (Susan L. Lytle), focuses on developing alternative forms of assessment such as literacy portfolios to identify changes in four dimensions of adult literacy over the course of literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Letourneau-Fallon, Pamela; And Others – 1996
This document is designed to engage workplace educators in thinking about the ideas and issues that the BEST [Better Education Skills Training] team have found to be important in shaping how they conduct their workplace education program. Its format is that of answers to questions that shape program planning and implementation. Students'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Beliefs
Australian Dept. of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra. – 1994
This magazine, which is designed for managers of Australian companies who are interested in raising their firms' productivity and meeting quality standards by developing a comprehensive approach to workplace communication, includes a variety of materials for and about improving communication within their organization. Most of the magazine is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Audits, Computer Literacy
Australian Advisory Council on Languages and Multicultural Education, Canberra. – 1989
This collection of papers is a review of the adult literacy projects in Australia funded under the 1987-89 Adult Literacy Action Campaign (ALAC) of the National Policy on Languages. Fourteen authors describe various literacy projects and, often, their outcomes. The projects described are grouped in seven areas. On the subject of Literacy Training…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Disabilities
Indiana State AFL-CIO, Indianapolis. – 1990
Successful workplace literacy programs involve unions. Support for education and training has long been a part of organized labor's history. Current initiatives are an expansion of union interest and activity in this area. Many unions have negotiated significant financial resources for workplace education as a part of collective bargaining…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Collective Bargaining
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