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Montana State Univ., Bozeman. – 1990
A study was conducted during the 1989-90 academic year of a random sample of 1984 and 1989 Montana high school graduates to assess the impact of enrollment in home economics courses on their knowledge/attitudes related to combining the dual roles of wage earner and homemaker. A questionnaire assessing graduates' knowledge of concepts related to…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Family Life, Followup Studies, High School Graduates
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1988
This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in retail businesses. The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities, and developing management…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Decision Making Skills, Entrepreneurship
Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green. – 1987
This curriculum guide was developed to help teachers/trainers conduct classes in life skills for single parents or displaced homemakers. The curriculum guide contains dozens of learning activities organized in the following three sections: self-concept (self-awareness, self-communication, and self-management); networking; and employability skills…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Employment Potential, Females, Job Skills
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1988
This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in service-producing businesses (often family-owned). The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Decision Making Skills, Entrepreneurship
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1988
This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in manufacturing businesses (often family-owned). The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Decision Making Skills, Entrepreneurship
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This competency-based secondary learning guide on managing individual and family resources is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Consumer Science, Course Content, Family Financial Resources
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Occupational Education Programs. – 1986
This document contains the two modules (called respectively Working Citizen and Personal Resource Management) of the Introduction to Occupations course required of all occupational education sequences in New York State. The Working Citizen module begins with an overview describing goal; overall nature of the module and of the four major topics…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Potential
Morse, Betty R.; And Others – 1987
Developed by several colleges in California, this guide contains a curriculum for a course in Life Management (usually taught in the home economics area). The introductory sections of the guide contain the following information: recommendations from the pilot test teachers, rationale, course description, goals, justification for including the…
Descriptors: Coping, Course Content, Course Organization, Cultural Influences
Bourque, Janet – 1983
A project was conducted at the Lake Washington Vocational Technical Institute to develop a curriculum and provide a pilot class in the consumer and homemaking program to address the needs of persons with the dual role of homemaker and wage earner. The format chosen for the course was a series of seminars to be conducted on-site at business offices…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This competency-based secondary learning guide on managing home and work responsibilities is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Consumer Science, Course Content, Dual Career Family