TO ASSIST THOSE WHO MAKE DECISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN AGRICULTURE, RECENT RESEARCH IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE IS SUMMARIZED. A 1963 STUDY TREATS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK EXPERIENCE AND STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, PLANS, AND ASPIRATIONS. STUDIES ON POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION CONCERN GUIDELINES FOR TECHNICIAN PROGRAMS, JUSTIFICATION…

Selections from materials developed for a National Institute of Education two-day workshop to examine workplace perspectives on education and training policy are presented. Participants included employer and trade union representatives, education and training specialists, policy analysts, and government officials. Part I on national perspectives…

This book contains six presentations from the American Society of Training and Development National Conference in St. Louis. The paper, Career Development, Personal Growth, and Experiential Learning, sees learning as the central task of career development, with experiential learning theory providing a framework for mapping career changes and a…

A series of opinions on many facets of the administration of cooperative education programming is presented. Part One reviews the philosophy of cooperative education including Lawrence Canjar's "convert" speech, a comparison of experiential and cooperative education, and discussions of parallel programs. In Part Two employers discuss cooperative…

The first part of a larger study of Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), this report deals with the implementation of EBCE during its first operational year and identifies six major themes which emerged from visits to the four laboratories which developed EBCE and to 10 EBCE pilot sites. The themes, each presented in a different chapter,…

The advisory council is important in developing a career education system in the elementary and secondary schools of our communities. The advisory council as a school community can assist by recruiting the totality of the community's resources. The council offers a mechanism designed to wire an educational system into the work world, linking…

Task force activities in three states regarding Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and education collaboration activities on three policy issues are summarized. Focus is on three specific issue areas in three states: academic credit for work experience (Maryland), educational components of CETA (Louisiana), and administrative…

Objectives of the Watertown, South Dakota, exemplary experienced based career education project are to involve the community in the educational process of participants, who will be aided (1) in improving their self-concept, their relationships with others, and their basic skills; (2) in eliminating sex role stereotyping; (3) in understanding job…

A series of fifteen correspondence studies for high school credit by contract are presented. Contracts are included for boating skills and seamanship; boatbuilding; food and food preparation; gardening; livestock raising; salmon aquaculture; sewing, knitting, and needlework; small engine repair; taxidermy and tanning; trapping; training animals;…

VISTA, OR "VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO AMERICAN," IS A PROGRAM ESTABLISHED UNDER THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964 TO DEAL WITH POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES. VOLUNTEERS ARE TRAINED FOR SIX WEEKS AND ASSIGNED TO LOCAL AGENCIES WHO SERVE AS SPONSORS AND PROVIDE SUPERVISION AND INSERVICE TRAINING. A STUDY HAS FOLLOWED 126 VOLUNTEERS,…

A job training and work experience program for educable mentally handicapped (EMR) students in grades 7 to 12 is presented in this curriculum guide. The EMR student is defined and the parent teacher relationship, organization of educable classes, overall goals of secondary instruction, and the instructional work experience program (including the…

To describe concurrent work-education programs in each of the 50 states, data were solicited from each state office by personal visit and from individual school districts by mailed questionnaire. Reports were made to the U.S. Office of Education by the states and reports made by individual school districts to state offices were utilized. Some…

In order to assist both volunteers and staff at all levels in planning and operating manpower services in neighborhoods, an attempt has been made to place "neighborhood method" in its proper context as a part of a comprehensive manpower program, and to provide guidelines for integrating manpower activities into a total neighborhood…

Twelve 3-day regional seminars were held from November 13, 1967 to June 14, 1968 to assist educators at the post-high school level to: (1) determine the need for agricultural programs, (2) plan and develop curriculums, (3) investigate supervised occupational experiences, (4) assist in the development of leadership characteristics, (5) evaluate…

In a study on promotion of realistic occupational goals in the mentally and academically retarded, 86 boys (aged 16 to 19 years) from two senior high schools located in two similar, juxtaposed Nevada cities (Reno and Sparks) were utilized. Groups included 16 mentally retarded students (IQ range 53 to 88, mean 78; Social Maturity Quotient range 60…