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Download full textWomen's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Designed to help organizations interested in expanding job options for women to plan and hold a community-based conference on nontraditional jobs, this guide outlines basic steps in planning, provides information about successful programs, and makes suggestions about how to deal with the mechanics of a conference. Following an introduction which…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Career Development, Career Opportunities
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Prepared for employers and staffs of job service and training programs, this guide presents information on how to conduct a workshop to expand employment opportunities for women in nontraditional occupations--in blue collar skilled work as well as white collar professional, technical, and managerial jobs. The guide includes sections on purpose of…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Career Development, Career Opportunities
Hackettstown Public Schools, NJ. – 1976
Materials contained in this curriculum guide are designed for use in carrying out the World of Related Knowledge and Educational Development (WORK-ED) program goal of enabling ninth grade students not enrolled in traditional college prep courses to make career choices based on occupational information. The guide is divided into two major…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
The Integration of Females into Male-Oriented Jobs: Experiences of Certain Public Utility Companies.
Meyer, Herbert H.; Lee, Mary Dean – 1976
Detailed information was obtained from ten utility companies and individuals in those companies regarding their experiences with the integration of women into traditionally male jobs. The results showed that efforts to employ women in such jobs were predominantly positive, in spite of negative attitudes and resistance. A great majority of the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blue Collar Occupations, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Nebraska Occupational Needs Research Coordinating Unit, Lincoln. – 1974
The seventh annual study of occupational opportunities in Nebraska reflects State manpower needs and trends as revealed by employer listings (number of persons employed, job duties of persons employed, and a projection of future needs). A 5 percent random sample was generated from the revised master list of employers for each of the six State…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Annual Reports, Building Trades, Employment Opportunities
Dodge, James W., Ed. – 1971
This report focuses on aspects of leadership in language instruction in three major areas. Professional responsibilities are examined from the point of: (1) stability and change; (2) a profile of the profession, 1971; (3) the nature of a profession; (4) language instruction viewed as a system; (5) culture and language instruction; and (6)…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development
Tang, Joyce, Ed.; Smith, Earl, Ed. – 1996
This book contains a collection of essays that analyze how and with what measure of success women and minorities fare in comparison to whites, especially white males, in professions in the United States. Each of the eight chapters examines gender and/or racial differences in patterns of segregation and discrimination, career paths, and labor…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adults, American Indians, Asian Americans
Johnston, Robyn; Chappell, Clive – 2000
A survey was designed to assist in constructing a picture of new vocational education and training professionals working in organizational settings in Australia. They were practitioners whose positional titles included training and development (T&D), human resource development, or human resource practitioners who work within organizational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Educational Research, Emerging Occupations
Salling Olesen, Henning – 2000
The question of how to theorize the subjective side of work within a life history perspective was explored. The findings of a study on engineers' subjective recognition of their lives, their education and jobs, and their life perspectives and the findings of a study of continuing education within a number of white-collar and semiprofessional work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Biographies, Engineers
Bouchard, Paul – 1996
The determinants of self-directed learning (SDL) among professionals of high attainment were examined through open-ended, semidirected interviews with a purposeful sample of eight professional men and women who have acquired identifiable, high-level professional knowledge/skills typically taught in postsecondary learning institutions without ever…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Context Effect, Educational Environment
Erekson, Thomas L.; McAlister, Brian K. – 1988
A study examined the search for university technology faculty members during 1986-87. The 71 position announcements in departments listed in the Industrial Teacher Education Directory and/or the Chronicle of Higher Education were analyzed. The heads of those departments were surveyed to find out the status of the search and the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Competitive Selection, Education Work Relationship
McAlister, Brian K.; Erekson, Thomas L. – 1988
A study examining the search for university technology faculty members during 1987-88 confirmed the finding of a similar study a year earlier that universities are having a difficult time hiring qualified faculty members. One hundred forty position announcements were analyzed. The heads of those departments were surveyed to find out the status of…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Competitive Selection, Education Work Relationship
Walters, Norma J. – 1984
This assessment instrument is intended to provide health occupations teachers and state departments of education with information needed to revise and improve the curriculum used in training prospective health occupations teachers and in updating certification requirements for practicing health care professionals. The profile lists the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Check Lists
Queeney, Donna S.; Manz, Karen P. – 1979
A study of the involvement of continuing higher education in professional and occupational regulation should focus on the growth of practice regulation, roles of higher education, and issues and areas for cooperation in meeting the practitioners' needs. Knowledge obsolescence and the definition of more specific fields have led to a heightened need…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Competence, Cooperation
CARSON, RAYMOND P. – 1965
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTICIPATION IN CONTINUING EDUCATION BY YOUNG ADULT MALES AND CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL, VOCATIONAL, AND SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS WAS STUDIED IN RURAL COMMUNITIES OF FLORIDA. DATA WERE COLLECTED BY QUESTIONNAIRE WHEN PARTICIPANTS WERE SOPHOMORES IN HIGH SCHOOL AND AGAIN SIX YEARS LATER. IN PHASE ONE, THEIR PARTICIPATION IN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Adult Education, Adult Programs
