This document is parts 1 and 2 of the September 1982 edition of this journal, published monthly by the Center for Health Promotion and Education as a dissemination vehicle for the growing body of information about health education. It includes 184 citations and abstracts of current journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, reports, and…

This curriculum course guide lists requirements for the various courses that could be offered in an office occupations program in the postsecondary vocational-technical schools of Louisiana. Descriptions are provided for these curricula: account clerk, administrative/office assistant, secretary/stenographer (including three specialized areas:…

This guide was designed for use by postsecondary child development instructors in programs that prepare students to be child caregivers or directors. The guide is especially useful for instructors of lecture-laboratory courses on mainstreaming children with special needs into regular child care settings. The guide is organized into six units that…

Based on a recent task inventory of key occupations in the accounting cluster taken in the Portland, Oregon, area, this curriculum guide is intended to assist administrators and teachers in the design and implementation of high school accounting cluster programs. The guide is divided into four major sections: program organization and…

This curriculum guide provides materials for a five-unit home health aide course. Each unit contains 4 to 36 lesson plans. Unit topics and representative lesson plan topics are as follows: (1) introduction (ethical and legal responsibilities, time management, reporting and recording); (2) communication (techniques, meeting the public, therapeutic…

This resource guide, one of a series of annotated bibliographies describing the collection of the lending library of the Vocational Special Needs (VSN) Program at Texas A&M University, lists available materials for and about office education. Covered in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: instructional materials,…

This three-part instructional guide was developed to assist vocational instructors in business and office occupations in presenting broadly applicable, nontechnical (often called quality of work life--QWL) skills, such as interpersonal and group process skills, problem solving and decision making, planning, communications, business economics,…

This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in marketing and distribution occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of marketing and distribution occupations, and an overview of the…

This manual provides step-by-step strategies and materials for recruiting and retaining minority students in secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. Particular emphasis is placed on recruiting for training, education, and placement in high-growth, emerging occupations and on providing equal access to all vocational and technical…

This document is a curriculum guide for a one semester course in geriatrics designed to be taught in high schools in Connecticut. Following introductory material about course philosophy and objectives, and a course outline, the guide contains nine units. Each unit consists of some or all of the following items: time allotment, overview, outline of…

Research was conducted to re-emphasize the importance of functional differences among jobs by showing how they help to better explain the income and status differences that are the main concern of recent stratification research. Status attainment, social class, and vocational psychological approaches to occupational and social differences were…

This second of a two-part study designed to develop a hospitality education program model for Hawaii's community colleges is based on the primary data gathered in a survey of the hospitality industry characteristics, manpower requirements, and employment demands. (Survey data is reported in volume 1 of the study.) The introductory section of this…

One of three supplements which accompany chapter 7 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), this document contains specific information concerning the early childhood education, building trades and services, and office education components of the…

The annotated bibliography contains citations on works concerned with problems of women in regard to equal employment opportunities and fair selection procedures in education, business, and industry. Over 100 entries from journals, bibliographies, dissertations, research studies, books, and reports are included. They have been drawn from the…

This occupational analysis data was assembled to help teachers develop a course of study preparing students for employment in the agricultural supply businesses and/or services. Following a job description for employees in agribusinesses and/or services, the remainder of the content in standard task analysis format presents an analysis of twelve…