This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. These essays focus on nursing, examining partnerships between education and service, nurse and person, and profession and community. Chapters describe both theoretical and experiential ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service-learning…

These Connecticut vocational and technical performance standards and competencies are a guide for overall quality attainment in these seven vocational and technical program areas: agricultural science technology education; business and finance technology education; cooperative work education; family and consumer sciences education; marketing…

The application of frontline management training in the community and health services (CS&H) industry in Victoria, Australia, was examined through interviews with managers of 11 user and 11 provider organizations in the public and private sectors. The study focused on the following topics: (1) the appropriateness of the Frontline Management…

This document, which is designed for use in developing a tech prep competency profile for the occupation of histotechnologist, lists technical competencies and competency builders for 13 units pertinent to the health technologies cluster in general as well as those specific to the areas of histology and phlebotomy. The following skill areas are…

This publication, a supplement to the "North Carolina Public Schools Facilities Guidelines," describes work force development education programs and facilities. It is intended as a resource that can assist design professionals in planning facilities that meet the evolving needs of public schools in the state. The first part of the guide…

Home economics programs are offered to students in grades 6-12 in the Des Moines INdependent Community School District (Iowa). Programs at the middle school level are exploratory, leading to occupational training in family and consumer science, child care, food service, and textile and fashion arts at the high school level. Health education…

This guide is intended to familiarize secondary students with the variety of occupational opportunities in the health field. It may be used in one of three ways--as a health career reference for guidance counselors, career counselors, teachers, and students; as a guide to introduce students to the health field; or as a text for career education.…

This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in introductory epidemiology. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of epidemiology in rural health promotional training, general…

This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in interpersonal communication techniques and styles. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of interpersonal communication in rural…

Proceedings of the 1979 Sweden/Canada Workshop held at Glendon College, York University, on adult learners in colleges and universities are presented. The adult student was defined as 21 years old or older and a participant of a formal learning situation for at least two years. Three major perspectives were addressed: the institution, the class,…

This catalog provides Comprehensive Employment and Training Act prime sponsors with a description of resource and curriculum materials used by the School District of Philadelphia in its instructional programs. (Some of the resources are available for the cost of reproduction.) The first section contains resources for the following vocational…

This bibliography lists approximately 1400 vocational education materials available at the Learning Resources Center, Keene State College, New Hampshire. Each item is categorized under one of 18 topics: (1) agriculture; (2) distributive education; (3) health occupations; (4) consumer/homemaking; (5) office occupations; (6) industrial arts; (7)…

This curricular framework for the subject area section, Cooperative Vocational Education for Grades 9-12 is one of eight Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) Programs of Studies. A foreword discusses Curriculum and Instruction, Use of the Program of Studies, Curriculum Change and Modification of the Program of Studies, State and…

Resulting from an evaluation of the Introduction to Vocations Program by Hawaii's State, district school, and community personnel, this handbook is intended to provide the necessary directions and guidelines for those schools interested in implementing the program. (The program is a restructured vocational-technical program for Hawaii's high…

Focusing on health occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include dispensing opticians, electrocardiograph…