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Billett, Stephen – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
This paper advances some bases for a workplace curriculum. These are premised on conceptions of curriculum as intents directed to individual's progression towards full and effective workplace performance, yet whose enactment is shaped by workplace factors and is ultimately experienced by workers as learners. So whether the intentions will be…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Curriculum Development, Vocational Education, Nonformal Education
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Mosier, Jerrilee K.; Richey, Michael C.; McPherson, Kenneth B.; Eckhol, John O.; Cox, Frank Z. – Community College Journal, 2006
This article features a "Triad" partnership of a group of Snohomish County organizations representing education, government and industry. Recognizing the need for a training and workforce development effort to address the aerospace manufacturing employers' needs, Triad views themselves as the pivotal cornerstone for deployment of complex…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Manufacturing Industry, Employment Patterns, Manufacturing
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Schlosser, Ralf W.; Walker, Elizabeth; Sigafoos, Jeff – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2006
This study evaluated the effectiveness of pyramidal training with direct care staff in group homes. Training focused on teaching staff how to provide opportunities for communication to non-speaking children with developmental disabilities to communicate. Staff were taught through a combination of a workshop, and nondirective consultation following…
Descriptors: Group Homes, Developmental Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2007
Cooperative education is a method of instruction that enables students to combine academic classroom instruction (school-based learning component) with occupational instruction through learning on the job (work-based learning component) in a career area of choice. Emphasis is placed on the students' education and employability skills. Co-op is a…
Descriptors: Laws, Guidelines, Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning
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Aksoy, Hasan Huseyin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe training levels related to careers, employment, and influences of "new economy" in small and mid-sized firms. The organizational side of career development behaviors was also a focus of this study. Interviews related to company policies and practices were conducted with 26 employers…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Career Development
Steadman, Sharilyn C.; Simmons, John S. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Across America, school districts face a problem of numbers: too many students, too few educators. In some areas, the shortage of classroom teachers is approaching crisis proportions. One solution designed to address the recruitment side of the problem is found in the creation of Non-University Certification Programs (NUCPs). The designs and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Shortage, Teachers, Certification
Zedlewski, Sheila; Chaudry, Ajay; Simms, Margaret – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2008
During the 1990s, the federal government promised low-income families that work would pay. Parents moved into jobs in response to new welfare rules requiring work, tax credits and other work supports that boosted take-home pay. Unfortunately, the record shows that low-income families have not progressed much. Many do not bring home enough to cover…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Federal Government, Welfare Recipients, Low Income Groups
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Napoleon, Larry; Freedman, Debra; Seetharaman, Koushik; Sharma, Priya – Journal of Food Science Education, 2006
This article describes the outcomes of a needs assessment concerning current training needs and performance targets for non-degreed employees in the food industry. Focus groups were used to gather data from 5 food-processing companies: a fresh vegetable company, a canned vegetable company, 2 snack food companies, and a meat company. Focus group…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Needs Assessment, Employees, Job Training
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Collin, Kaija – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The paper seeks to investigate design engineers' and product developers' learning through their work. The aim was to approach designers' work practice and their learning in the course of it as perceived by the designers themselves. The aim is also to examine their learning through the various individual and social processes, which take…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Learning
Warden, Rebecca – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2006
This article charts the progress of a project to introduce an apprenticeship scheme providing school and company-based training for the first time in Syria. It traces the successes and failures of the project. Syria is new territory for this kind of initiative. The article outlines some of the difficulties of working in a highly centralised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education
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Anuncibay, Raquel de la Fuente – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
One of the challenges raised by proactive employment policies centres on redressing inequalities that are not solely of an economic nature, as others may also be added of a social and ethnic nature as well as personal, cultural and educational aspects. This article analyses the situation in which groups at risk of social exclusion find themselves…
Descriptors: Employment, Social Isolation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), At Risk Persons
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Donohue, Brad; Azrin, Nathan; Allen, Daniel N.; Romero, Valerie; Hill, Heather H.; Tracy, Kendra; Lapota, Holly; Gorney, Suzanne; Abdel-al, Ruweida; Caldas, Diana; Herdzik, Karen; Bradshaw, Kelsey; Valdez, Robby; Van Hasselt, Vincent B. – Behavior Modification, 2009
A comprehensive evidence-based treatment for substance abuse and other associated problems (Family Behavior Therapy) is described, including its application to both adolescents and adults across a wide range of clinical contexts (i.e., criminal justice, child welfare). Relevant to practitioners and applied clinical researchers, topic areas include…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Intervention, Behavior Modification, Adolescents
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Germain, Carol Anne – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
After undertaking the time and energy consuming task of reference assessment, the library might discover that it needs to tweak delivery of service, weed and update the collection, upgrade workstations, or advance marketing strategies to get patrons to use reference materials and services. Like any other product or service, reference departments…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Evaluation Methods, Outreach Programs, Marketing
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Hurley, Becky Bair – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
This author, superintendent of Winnetka Public Schools (a K-8 district in the northern suburbs of Chicago), shares a board president's perspective that may help shed some light on one of the superintendent's most challenging jobs: successfully working with a board of education. Why is it so challenging? Certainly because in the current culture of…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Superintendents, Presidents
Lundberg, David; Marshallsay, Zaniah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Older workers' perspectives are examined in a national survey of the finance sector and case studies of aged care and construction workers. The majority of older workers intend to work beyond retirement age, to achieve a better lifestyle. With training, older workers could mentor younger workers. This support document includes a national survey of…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Finance Occupations, Retirement, Older Adults
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