Describes a teaching technique which integrates the conceptual content of sociology with applied fieldwork. Topics include recruiting students and clients, forming student teams, and conducting the project. Discusses implications for teaching within such a program. (JDH)

Three deaf-blind teenage students were placed for four to eight weeks in a community-subsidized work program modeled on the Specialized Training Program. All students generalized assembly and self-help skills in which they had been trained, with peer tutor assistance, prior to placement. Their rates of productivity and supervisor contacts were…

Using data on wage claims investigations of a state labor department, this study indicates that investigators become significantly more productive during the first six years of job experience. (SK)

The author discusses means to promote success in the school-to-work transition of disabled students, noting the importance of written transition plans, curriculum collaboration, work experiences, and followup studies. (CL)

Describes the collaboration between business/industry and education facilitated by the Industry Education Council of California (IECC). IECC programs give collaborators successful experience based on how they best work together. (JOW)

Outlines a model business-education program developed to help stop a shortage of competent personnel in the financial services industry. (MD)

Summarizes experience of an analytical chemist in the form of a dialogue, including educational background, teaching-learning practices, research activities, academic contributions, opinion about government support of research studies, and future prospects of the field. (CC)

Factors in the development of relevance in the industrial arts curriculum are greater student participation in educational planning, teachers assuming active roles in development of centers of interest, greater social interaction, increased community participation, and a curriculum that involves more real-life experiences. (MS)

The University of Minnesota Technical College at Waseca opened as a year-round, quarter-system agricultural school in 1971 to make effective use of natural outdoor agricultural laboratories during the summer months. Other advantages are greater seasonal flexibility for students planning work experience programs and assisting with farming at home.…

Research for Better Schools, Inc., a Philadelphia-based laboratory, has instituted a program, Academy for Career Education, as an alternative to the typical high school. The aim of the program is to provide high school students with actual work experience to help them make rational career decisions. (KP)

The Employer-Based Career Education (EBCE) Model derives from: (1) an alternative for young people who would like their education to be more directly related to life outside school; and (2) a merger of the best aspects of the academic and vocational curricula. (KP)

Occupational foundering is a phenomenon occuring when a person enters the labor market without commitment to an occupational goal. A period of effort causing varying degrees of need deprivation and frustration, floundering can be divided into three stages: (1) initial entry into the labor market (2) shopping period (3) mid-career stage. In the…

California State Engineering and Manufacturing Company was formed by the Department of Industrial Studies in order to provide direct experience with and knowledge of the industrial process for teachers finishing their degree requirements in Industrial Studies. (KP)

Article described a project which aims to provide publishing and distribution opportunities for people in Hackney who would never think of themselves as within the traditional framework of commercial publishing. (Author/RK)

Survey results indicated that posthospital employment was meagre and that it was unrelated to urbanization industrialization and local unemployment rates. Variance in vocational adjustment was more importantly accounted for by characteristics of the subject than by labor market characteristics, and was seen as having encouraging implications for…