The author reports on a survey of recent undergraduate students with and without cooperative education experience. Results indicate that cooperative education experience is not a significant factor in recent students' relative development of a career identity. (CH)

This paper estimates the extent to which workers with different personal characteristics are likely to be employed in the public versus the private sector. Results show that government employment is preferred by veterans, nonwhites, and women; and that highly educated and more experienced workers are more likely to choose the public sector. (CT)

Describes Ontario's secondary school cooperative education program, advocating the community's involvement in preparing students for entry into the working world. (ABB)

This article aims to make a critical analysis of the African attempts at vocationalizing the school curriculum, looking at certain major issues with the views of one prominent critic, Philip Foster, in mind. (Author/CT)

Describes the range of cooperation which exists between Comberton Village College and local industry. Also describes a new videotape on this topic, Links', which is being distributed to all secondary schools in England and Wales. (JDH)

Describes the development of a new type of selection procedure, the activity/achievement indicator, and compares it with the behavioral consistency method of training and experience evaluation. Reports that total scores from these two methods correlated at r=.58. Discusses implications. (Author/CH)

Describes a mini-course called "Women in Managerial Roles," developed as an innovative experiential methodology to help women bridge the reality gap between classroom and corporation in two ways: bring an entire class of women students inside the corporation, and create structured interactions between the students and women corporate executives…

Over the past two decades a number of African and Asian governments have experimented with various types of youth mobilization or employment and training schemes in trying to cope with rural youth unemployment. A critical appraisal is made of some of these in an attempt to establish criteria that productive employment programs for rural youth…

Outlines the author's attempt to investigate the notion that the Youth Training Scheme curriculum is best understood as an expression of ideology. It is a report of an ongoing piece of research and the focus is on the Supporting Studies element of the YTS as the place in the curriculum where ideology is most obviously manifest. (Author/CT)

Investigated the influence of socioeconomic status and work experience on Egyptian children's development of economic concepts. Found that (1) Egyptian children's developmental pattern is comparable to that of children from other cultures, and (2) socioeconomic status is more significant than work experience as a source of conceptual variation…

Describes the work experience of an English teacher as a writer/editor in a large manufacturing company and her realization that good writing depends on purpose and audience. (CRH)

Suggests that American society must change and one good way to start is to get the work-success ethic out of the schools. (Author/RK)

Primarily middle-class women (N=212) were classified as "still working,""retired," or "housewives most of their lives" according to self-report. Analysis showed women who have worked much of their lives are not at a disadvantage relative to those who have not in terms of number of social resources at their disposal. (Author)

This publication is part of a toolkit that examines systemic barriers to achieving economic self-sufficiency for court-involved adolescents. It introduces the issue of workforce and youth development for juvenile offenders, discussing exemplary programs and policy initiatives that help court-involved youth become economically self-sufficient. To…

This publication is part of a toolkit that examines systemic barriers to achieving economic self-sufficiency for court-involved youth. It highlights 19 exemplary policy initiatives that fall into the following five categories: innovative approaches, new ways to allocate funds and develop resources, ways to promote collaboration among various…