The sharp decline in voter participation among Canadian youth requires an examination of how our students are being prepared for democratic citizenship. Public schools, including programs falling under the purview of career education, provide the means to prepare learners for vocational, community, and political participation. In Canada, career…

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…

This report contains the final recommendations of the task force on youth employment for the state of Wisconsin. The task force was specifically charged with studying issues related to working teenagers, reviewing existing laws and regulations on child labor, and developing recommendations to ensure that when teenagers work, their jobs do not…

The Training Opportunities Program (TOP), a work experience and training program for New York City high school students, is designed to place students, as trainees, in agencies and businesses with equipment, facilities, and human resources not available in the public schools. In 1983-84, the third year of the program's operation, TOP was funded to…

Describes a work-study program wherein counselors already working within correctional institutions are encouraged to participate in a two-year master's degree program in Rehabilitation Counseling in an attempt to upgrade the counseling personnel in institutions. (Author/HMV)

The purpose of the first year's work of a two-year project was to identify education and work program characteristics that are indicators of the normative (work-centered) and personalistic (person-centered) dimensions of eighteen experiential education programs and to determine common characteristics and whether programs can be classified based on…

The third component of a series on career education examines the issues that affect secondary programs for exceptional students and offers recommendations to assist professionals in program planning. An initial section considers the advantages and disadvantages of special education work experience, vocational education, cooperative education,…

The 25-page bibliography of selected materials on work experience and cooperative education programs is divided into three sections: 126 books; 217 articles, and 6 theses. Materials are listed alphabetically by author. Sources for most entries are cited. (BP)

The goals of the work study project: Services to the Aging conducted at the University of Denver, were: (1) to sensitize the undergraduate students participating in it in their understanding of the role and functioning of older people in a changing social structure; and (2) through a field work and academic program, to acquaint students with the…

This pamphlet was designed to provide vocational educators, administrators, and other individuals interested in developing and/or implementing cooperative vocational programs with information on the subject. Answered are these questions: (1) What evidence is there that cooperative vocational education is necessary or that it is better than other…

GRADES OR AGES: High School. SUBJECT MATTER: Work experience program. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE/ The introductory material outlines the program philosophy, rationale, and objectives. There are six units, the first two given in detail, the remainder in outline only: a) orientation, b) career development, c) social living and health…

The author writes about India's educational system and the development of work experience programs in agriculture during the past decade. (MF)

In insulating the student from the hazards of the working world, the schools have neglected to prepare the student for his entry into that world. Work experience programs in secondary schools are proposed as a solution, as British students will shortly be required, by law, to spend an additional year in school. (AG)

Recommendations for comprehensive education and training programs for minority business owners are: coordination at State and local levels; local level delivery systems; improved curriculums; increased support for formal business education; career awareness programs; work experience programs for potential minority entrepreneurs; recognition of…