In Canada, current federal learning-and-work policy is focused on individual learner-worker development using an iteration of lifelong learning as cyclical. This policy aims to enhance the social as an effect of enhancing the economic. In this neoliberal milieu, cyclical lifelong learning has become not only a norm but also a culture and an…

The traditional concept of work-study programs as a lower-class, menial task, rote-learning program is undemocratic and nonproductive in terms of developmental growth and should be restructured to provide interactional cognitive development and a broad range of career option experience to all students. (MB)

The case can be made that school-to-work programs can be a college preparatory strategy because they can teach academic skills as well as and possibly even better than more traditional approaches. The skepticism about its potential as a means of preparing students for college is based on misconceptions about its characteristics. Its three basic…

The purpose of this study was to determine characteristic learning patterns of technical education alumni at a mid-western engineering school (institute of technology). The research also included efforts to track cognitive and career development of the engineers in the study. The research sample consisted of five graduating classes selected at…

The paper examines the role of experiential learning programs such as cooperative education and internship programs as a method of enhancing student learning and cognitive development in the liberal arts. The literature review begins by examining the goals of a liberal education as they relate to field experience. The outcomes of field experience…

Summarizes findings of a national study of 27 programs and concludes that educational programs which are experientially based can have a significant positive impact on the social, psychological, and intellectual development of adolescents. (Author/GC)

The four papers prepared by the Far West Regional Laboratory are intended to serve as a model for designing an Employer-Based Career Education (EBCE) program. The authors of Chapter 1, Instructional Model: Bases and Rationale, have discussed underlying concepts and principles. Basic student provisions include: basis for job choice, orientation and…

The report describes an evaluation of seven affective and cognitive traits of 40 of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program during the 1972-73 program year as measured by the Student Information System (SIS). All students were tested in February and in May 1973; Group One…