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Download full textFar West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
This package of handbooks on the Far West Laboratory version of Experience-Based Career Education provides information on the distinctive features of the Far West model. Part 1 on management has four handbooks: program overview; administration (attendance, budget, insurance and liability, schedules, staff, troubleshooting and problem solving);…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Elliott, Mark; King, Elisabeth – 1999
This document explains the concept of sectoral employment strategies and profiles 13 successful work force development programs based on such strategies. The first half of the document examines the increasing need for sectoral employment strategies and their key characteristics, role in achieving systemic change in work organizations, and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Programs, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Latin American Research and Service Agency, Denver, CO. – 1987
The goal of the Hispanic Agenda is to enhance the quality of life for Colorado Hispanics and all other Coloradans. Responsibility for the program rests with the Hispanic community and leadership. The Hispanic Agenda Steering Committee began work in January 1986 to develop the structure and process for the Agenda. Program components, identified…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Development, Community Involvement
Novak, Kathy – 1983
Designed as a resource for urban adult basic education (ABE) program planners, this guidebook describes model linkage strategies between ABE and job placement as well as ABE and job training services that are targeted to urban Americans. The following topics are covered in the guide: linkage strategies (the meaning of the term linkages, community…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs
Holzkamper, Charlot – 1982
Designed for use in high school and adult education programs, this manual was developed to help marketing and distributive education teachers to develop or upgrade community/work-based programs; and to assist teachers who operate these programs to use legal operational practices and to meet the occupational needs of their students and communities.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
1979
Papers from numerous research areas in the adult education field are presented. The proceedings contain thirty-five papers, five symposia, one alternate symposium, and eighteen alternate papers. Among the papers included are "A Comparison of Approaches to Measuring Outcomes in Adult Basic Education,""A Critical Analysis of Hill's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Alberta Vocational Centre, Edmonton. – 1979
The Alberta Vocational Center (AVC) developed a portable competency-based learning system for use in non-institutional adult basic education community programs. The system addresses needs identified by the 1971 census which found 28% of Alberta's residents (over fifteen and out of school) had less than a ninth grade education. Administered through…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Programs, Competency Based Education
MEYEN, EDWARD L., ED. – 1967
DESIGNED AS A SUPPLEMENTARY TEXT FOR BASIC COURSES ON MENTAL RETARDATION, SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION, VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, AND SOCIAL WORK, THIS COLLECTION OF 35 READINGS PRESENTS BACKGROUND ON THE MAJOR SERVICE AREAS WHICH ARE NECESSARY IN PROVIDING A CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR MENTALLY RETARDED CITIZENS. THE READINGS ARE DIVIDED INTO FIVE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Clinics
Cumming, Jim – 1997
Community-based learning (CBL) is a structured approach to learning and teaching that connects meaningful community experience with intellectual development, personal growth, and active citizenship. Enthusiasm for CBL is emerging in Australia and elsewhere because it is seen as the following: strategy for whole-school reform, especially in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Organizations, Computer Uses in Education
Wurster, Marion V.; Lazarus, Simone Rollin – 1981
A special project was designed to develop and implement an inservice training strategy for community and school recreation on the inclusion of visually impaired children into existing community recreation programs. The project resulted in inservice workshops for 90 trainer/consultants, a book, and a self instructional study guide. Listed among…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Recreation Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination
Scannell, Tess; Roberts, Angela – 1994
This document is designed to enlarge and expand the intergenerational community service mission and serve as a practical tool to anyone (including policymakers and program planning professionals) who wishes to learn about or start intergenerational community service programs (ICSPs). The following ICSP topics are discussed: rationale (building…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Needs, Community Programs
PDF pending restorationHautecoeur, Jean-Paul, Ed. – 1992
This collection contains 17 papers presented at a seminar on literacy strategies in the community movement, held in Namur, Belgium, in 1991. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Hautecoeur); "Illiteracy: Direction? Action? Results?" (Hautecoeur); "Basic Education and Personal Development Strategies"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Rutherford, Barry; And Others – 1993
This review of the literature on the current state of parent and community involvement looks at the programs and practices, and their effects, in the research and practice literature, especially since 1980. The review explores past history and offers a contemporary view of the policies, trends, and factors that provide an understanding for the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Ashley, William L.; Zahniser, Gale L. – 1984
This report, one in a series of three publications for vocational program developers and others to use in planning and developing a community-based response to worker dislocation, deals with programs for dislocated workers that have been developed and supported by private sector and local community efforts and resources. Reviewed in the first…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Case Studies, Community Education, Community Programs
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. Div. of Curriculum. – 1982
This guide to developing career education programs in Indiana elementary and secondary schools tells how to move career education from an idea to a permanent part of the school curriculum. The guide was written specifically for persons who have the task of leading their schools' career education programs. The guide has three chapters corresponding…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development
