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Finn, Peter; Lawson, Jane – 1975
Designed as a resource book which can be used to supplement the regular curriculum by integrating one or more career education activities into regularly taught courses, this volume for grades 9 through 12 is one of a series of three manuals, one each for the elementary (grades 1-6), junior high (grades 6-9), and senior high (grades 9-12) levels.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Planning
2002
The Digital Economic Opportunity Committee (DEOC) was established to examine the information technology (IT) skills gap and make recommendations to eliminate this gap. DEOC believed the appropriate response to this skills gap is two-fold. The first was upgrading existing workers skills through training. The second was expanding the number of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Demand Occupations, Disabilities
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2003
The evolution of the workplace has required changes in the guidance and counseling practices of career education (CE). Basic elements of CE strategies for enhancing students' career awareness, exploration, and planning are still in place, but contemporary issues such as life-work balance, involuntary career transitions, and mentoring have led to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
2003
The Oregon Council for Knowledge and Economic Development (OCKED), a collaborative effort among Oregon's higher education institutions, economic development department, and the private sector, is charged with developing strategies to enhance Oregon's economic competitiveness in a knowledge-based, global economy. This report describes the council's…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Capital, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Beach, King – 2001
There is dissonance between the lives of adult students in rural Nepal in a subsistence-level agrarian community and their participation in school. The concept of "transfer" has several shortcomings from the standpoint of understanding relations between mathematical reasoning in the classroom and in the workplace. It is more helpful to…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis, Constructivism (Learning)
Fleischer, Wendy – 2003
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Jobs Initiative is a six-city workforce initiative aimed at helping disadvantaged adults earn their way out of poverty. Between 1995 and 2002, the initiative enrolled more than 17,000 adults and placed 8,090 people in jobs. Most Jobs Initiative participants were working 18 months after enrollment in the program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Colleges, Community Colleges, Disadvantaged
Peavey, Kay S., Ed. – 1998
This document, which is the first in a series of best practice documents incorporating the wisdom and experiences of New York's adult educators, presents eight learning experiences that are specifically tailored for adult learners and instructors. The following information is provided for each learning experience: (1) a brief description of the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Corbett, Deborah – 2000
This document is designed to help develop the communication skills of individuals training for the position of workplace assessor in Australia's National Training Framework and practicing workplace assessors who require additional assistance with on-the-job communication skills. The document consists of 11 units of study that each contain some or…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Competence
Lewe, Glenda – 1995
This book, which is intended for educators who are invited into workplaces to design, develop, and deliver workplace literacy and other training programs and for corporate and labor leaders involved in workplace education, examines the concepts of total quality and bedrock (foundation or basic) skills. Presented first are a glossary and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship
Mehaut, Philippe; Delcourt, Jacques – 1995
This report synthesizes the findings of a study of continuing training policy in nine countries of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The following are among the topics discussed: the study's objectives and methods; characteristics of new forms of work and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Continuing Education
Carman, Priscilla S.; Van Horn, Barbara; Grumm, Margaret – 1997
This package consists of a facilitator's guide and three booklets that were developed to provide basic preventive health information for adults caring for young children and presents a story line with characters who become more self-confident in coping with children's health issues as they build their knowledge about preventive health. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Check Lists, Childrens Literature
Tshiangale, Mupemba Wa – 1996
This manual for Malagasy is designed for the specific language instruction needs of Peace Corps personnel working in Madagascar. It is written primarily in English and Malagasy, with introductory sections in French. It consists of 29 topical lessons, each geared to a specific domain and competency and containing information on needed materials,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Awareness, Daily Living Skills, Dialogs (Language)
Baran, Joni; Berube, Gilles; Roy, Richard; Salmon, Wendy – 2000
This paper identifies important knowledge gaps in adult education and training (AET) in Canada and starts to explore strategies to fill these gaps. Following an introduction in English and French, each of the next three sections is comprised of a review of the current state of knowledge on three topics (outcomes of adult learning, motivations and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cost Effectiveness
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 2001
This document contains a guide to implementing the Ohio Work and Family Life ITAC (Integrated Technical and Academic Competencies), which connects to the Ohio Model Competency-Based Program documents in arts, foreign languages, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, as well as the Core ITAC document. The Work and Family Life ITAC…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Planning, Communication Skills, Competence
2001
The first of the papers in this poster session, "Developing the Employment Brand: Targeting MBA Campus Hires" (Diane M. Bergeron), posits that employment branding benefits both individuals and organizations. It functions as a campus recruiting tool in a competitive labor market and communicates the organization's values and work…
Descriptors: Action Research, Certification, Cooperative Learning, Credentials
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