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Download full textMcGennis, Brenda; Scott, Liam – 1989
A study of the training of the in-company trainer of young people in Ireland was conducted from January through March 1988. Directors of training and the trainers themselves were interviewed in 15 companies. An additional 50 trainers responded to a mailed questionnaire. Trainers were primarily men in their thirties with a background in teaching,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship
Dumdi, Eleanor S.; Bezayiff, David – 1984
The Oregon Extern Program was undertaken to enable 15 educators and industry trainers to acquire the skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary to develop, implement, improve, and evaluate local programs of vocational and career education and employment and training programs. Project participants attended a one-week orientation seminar during…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Needs, Field Experience Programs, Followup Studies
Madeira, Eugene L. – 1980
Based on the experience of 130 local adult basic education (ABE) directors in Pennsylvania, this guide presents suggestions for recruiting the least educated adults into ABE programs. Following an introduction that defines ABE and examines whose responsibility ABE is, the guide is divided into 12 chapters. Each of the chapters develops one…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Students, Advertising
Vickerman, Kathrine D. – 1996
This document describes and presents the materials gathered during a project to collect, preserve, and document the history of the Mountain Plains Adult Education Association (MPAEA). First, the procedures used to develop the MPAEA archives are traced. Presented next is an overview of the mission, development, and major activities of the MPAEA,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Archives
Sensi, Dina; And Others – 1992
Equal opportunities programs in the Member States of the European Community (EC) are based on international law, EC law, and various legal provisions at the national level. Two main types of positive action can be identified among the various initiatives implemented in the different Member States: (1) governmental promotion of positive actions…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Corporate Education, Educational Discrimination
Wonacott, Michael E.; Hamilton, James B. – 1983
This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers, and discusses barriers and facilitators to the use of these approaches. Technological update refers to the technical knowledge and skills needed by vocational/technical teachers to provide…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Industrial Training, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1984
This guide is intended to provide a prospective user of interactive video instruction with a guide to the establishment and operation of an electronics worksite training program. The training program is designed to provide beginning electronics technician training equivalent to that available at most community colleges and technical schools. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Wanant, John A., Ed.; And Others – 1978
To assist the coordinator of cooperative industrial education in developing and maintaining a quality program is the stated purpose of this handbook. The introductory material offers background information on types of programs, duties of the coordinator, and steps in organizing a program. Next, broad and specific objectives are provided for…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
Syracuse Univ., NY. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1968
THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT CONTAINS 33 INDEXED ITEMS WITH ABSTRACTS, IN SUCH AREAS AS LEADERSHIP TRAINING, PROGRAM PLANNING AND EVALUATION, HUMAN RELATIONS AND LABORATORY TRAINING. WITH ONE EXCEPTION, ALL THE DOCUMENTS ARE FROM 1966 AND 1967. (SG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business, Decision Making Skills, Developing Nations
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM. – 1996
This learning module, which is part of a management and supervisor training program for managers and supervisors employed at the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Division, is designed to help trainees understand basic plant and industry waste management activities and issues. The following topics are covered in the module's individual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Coordination
Oen, Urban T. – 1985
This publication is part of a series of self-instructional teacher training manuals designed to assist vocational-technical educators or industrial trainers to develop and implement competency-based vocational education (CBVE) programs in a school or industrial setting. The manual contains the following sections: cover page that contains the task…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Guidelines
Cantor, Jeffrey A. – 1985
The Maritime Trades Program is a cooperative training program that was established through the joint efforts of 14 shipyards in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Established in 1980, the program originally operated under the guidelines imposed by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Now, however, the program operates in accordance…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
DeCrow, Roger, Ed.; Grabowski, Stanley, Ed. – 1968
This register includes abstracts of 253 research studies in adult education which have been completed and reported since the first compilation. For each report the following information is given: author or institutional source; title and other identifying bibliographic data; abstract; place of publication or note on how to obtain the report.…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Coplin, Jennifer; And Others – 1994
This document includes a final performance report and evaluation report from the Weck Ed program, through which job-linked adult basic education and General Educational Development (GED) test preparation courses that were jointly developed by the company Pilling Weck and Durham Technical Community College were offered to Pilling Weck employees on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges
Wallington, Clint – 1981
While most training and development/institutional development professionals are familiar with either the world of formal higher education or the world of training in the business/industrial sector, few training and development practitioners are familiar with both. It is necessary to coordinate the efforts between these two spheres in order to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
