Defines reflective practice and illustrates why reflection is fundamental to learning and how it can be brought out in the company of trusted others through dialogue. Illuminates the relationships between public reflection and the common good, experience, and time as well as characterizing the skills associated with reflective practice. (Contains…

Cooperative education should foster self-directed learning, reflective practice, and transformative learning; integrate school and work; offer collaborative experiences; ground experiences in adult learning theories; ensure relevant, meaningful experiences; use advanced technology and delivery models; be defined through program and curriculum; and…

Describes the responsibilities of corporations, managers, professionals, and educators in establishing a successful career path in technical communication. (SR)

Discusses the role of educators, practicing professionals, and students in an active and reciprocal partnership between educators and practicing professionals to serve the professional development of both groups and to improve student preparation for the workplace. (SR)

Discusses three challenges (dealing with program diversity, accommodating conflicting emphases, and precipitating positive change) in evaluating academic technical communication programs. Outlines an approach to program evaluation that redefines the stakeholders to include a wide range of partners in both workplace and academy, and that uses a…

Because individual, societal, and work-related interests are interrelated, greater connections between meanings constructed from work and nonwork experiences are needed. A reconciling framework gives centrality to generative and productive activity of vocational, which includes being, living, and working with others. (SK)

In a survey of 123 students with learning disabilities, 21% aspired to professional/technical and 10-15% trade/service occupations; many had unrealistic ambitions. Those with ambitions seldom thought of dropping out and felt confident in their ability to find a job. Many are not taking courses related to their ambitions and have limited job search…

Addresses employability as a performance indicator in higher education. Raises questions about the values behind seemingly neutral indicators of value, and whether the same employability attributes have similar economic and professional values for different social groups. Asserts that employability is a socially decontextualized signifier, and…

Comparison of commonalities and differences in research on school-to-work transition in Australia and Norway suggests a need for a more critical approach to the outcomes of new continuing education policy. Research should also reappraise the influence of structural factors and students' own attitudes toward change. (SK)

An ethnographic study of British professional football (soccer) Youth Trainees shows how the attitudes and practices regarding education and work of a distinct subculture affect those who sought preparation for postfootball careers through educational development. Within the subculture, college attendance was regarded as unmanly and threatening to…

In a Canadian survey of informal learning (n=1,562) and a follow-up (n=328), unpaid work, informal learning, and job-related learning were extensive. Despite considerable underemployment, respondents still pursued learning that prepared them for work. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)

The article attempts to assess the major sources behind the exceptional Irish growth performance in the 1990s. Unlike other Tigers, Ireland's growth is due to efficiency gains, rather than capital deepening, but the causes for the swift growth in total factor productivity cannot be pinned down to a single factor. Human capital, foreign direct…

Using a representative sample of Spanish individuals, we explore the effects of workers' education on self-assessed satisfaction with diverse specific aspects of their jobs. We find that the effects of education level on job satisfaction differ, both in size and direction, according to the aspect of the job considered, especially after controlling…

This article argues that China's education system is facing unprecedented pressures to provide appropriately skilled individuals to meet the demands of the rapidly growing economy. In China this is a uniquely complex situation owing to the coexistence of a diminishing command and control economy and a growing market economy. Within this context we…

The new learning opportunities that feed mind, body and soul helps the senior students develop the resiliency and intellectual qualities they need to make a healthy transition to post-high school life. The Monsignor Donovan High School in Toms River, New Jersey, has provided creative learning opportunities to seniors, which has planted in them the…