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Download full textJohnson, Charlotte F.; Stepp, Adelaide A. – 1988
Project Exploration developed and pilot-tested a process for the career development of 21 learning-disabled (LD) women on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas. The project focused on enlightened self-awareness as well as the development of essential academic and behavioral skills. The project helped the LD women to gain knowledge…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Economic and Social Opportunities, Inc., San Jose, CA. – 1975
A survey was conducted to define the career development needs of women in five school districts which form the Metropolitan Adult Education Program (MAEP) area (San Jose, California). (The survey was a first step in a project to demonstrate the transferability of existing career development programs from other school areas to designated need…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Choice, Career Development
Durant, Thomas J., Jr. – 1974
The study determined the relation between specific social factors and situational conditions of poverty and non-poverty heads of households and their orientation toward work. The major hypotheses tested was that respondents affected more by adverse social factors and situational conditions will develop less positive work orientations. Data were…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Economic Development, Goal Orientation, Heads of Households
Kerka, Sandra – 2002
The lifelong process of career development poses special challenges for people with learning disabilities (LD). Literature on employment issues for adults with LD frames on-the-job problems in terms of individual deficits or recasts the issues as a function of the significant societal barriers faced by those who do not fit the norm. Research on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Colleges
Thomas, Hollie B.; And Others – 1979
This report describes a research project which (1) assessed personal-social barriers to female entry into non-traditional jobs, (2) developed a treatment program to assist women in overcoming those barriers, and (3) determined program impact. A project overview, the first of four major sections, precedes a survey on barriers (section 2). Following…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Attitude Change, Career Development, Career Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1977
One of a series of bibliographies on selected topics, this annotated bibliography includes 116 citations on the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of rural youth. Citations are derived from the ERIC monthly publications "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE).…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Annotated Bibliographies
