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James, Terrance N. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1979
The article discusses the results and implications of a 1978 study of work study/work experience programs for regular and handicapped secondary students in British Columbia, Canada. (Author/DSL)
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming
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Barbato, Joseph – Change, 1979
It is estimated that some 220,000 students participate each year in cooperative education programs in 1,100 colleges and universities. The cooperative education, or work-study, concept is discussed with focus on the program's major purposes and benefits for the colleges, students and businesses involved. (JMD)
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives
Iowa State Career Education Advisory Council, Des Moines. – 1974
The State of Iowa Advisory Council on Career Education has elected to investigate each year one specific component or element of vocational and career education in the State, rather than undertake a comprehensive review. The topic of the 1974 report is cooperative work-study programs in the State. The Council collected information and observations…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Epstein, Jerome – 1972
The project described in this document was designed as an experiment in career education in the health field. The 3-year program offered students in three Los Angeles high schools and one Long Beach high school an introduction to health careers in the first year, work experience in the second, and cooperative or work-study education in the third.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Education
Turner, Solveig M., Ed. – CIHED Newsletter, 1981
This issue--an international overview of cooperative/work experience education--contains ten case studies and four student viewpoints. It begins with an article discussing types of cooperative/work experience programs, including those focused on in the case studies. A second article previews the Second World Conference on Cooperative Education.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Higher Education
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1975
A selection of 26 operational linkage programs are described in the supplemental document, providing career education practitioners with examples of program development and operation in the area of school-work relationships. The programs are grouped under four categories and in terms of their relationship between education and work: (1)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1975
Summaries of the seven chapters and 12 proposals contained in the final report are presented in the document. Chapter 1: Introduction, discusses the roles assigned by society to schools and the workplace; Chapter 2: A Framework for Studying the Education-To-Work Transition, explores the subject area and how it has been handled; Chapter 3: Survey…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1975
Results from a year-long study on the education-to-work transition are presented in the final report, with an examination of existing linkages between the two and proposals for their expansion and improvement. Background material is provided in a preface, summary of chapter content, and introductory chapter. Further chapters include: Framework for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Bibliographies, Career Education, Change Strategies
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Dept. of Elementary/Secondary Education. – 1976
Societal, institutional, and organizational changes need to be made in order to bridge the gap between the world of education and that of work to restore the needed wholeness to our society. This gap has created both an alienation between student and worker and the alienation of both from society. The education/work separation is a result of (1)…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Business Responsibility, Career Awareness, Career Education
Chern, Hermine C.; And Others – 1980
This document contains evaluations of the thirty vocational/career education programs funded during the 1979-80 school year in the School District of Philadelphia. The first section consists of a brief summary of the conclusions and recommendations concerning each program. The remainder of the document consists of the complete evaluation reports…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Career Education
Grumelli, Maryanne Dettmer – 1982
This volume contains abstracts of 37 model New Jersey vocational programs that served disadvantaged students in fiscal year 1982. Included among the programs described are projects dealing with agriculture, agribusiness, the needs of pregnant teenagers, bilingual vocational business education, building trades, consumer education, work study,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education