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Hansen, L. Sunny – 1996
This book presents an integrative life planning (ILP) model for career professionals/counselors to use in helping their clients develop career and life pathways responsive to their own economic, family, spiritual, and cultural needs and also to community needs. Discussed in chapters 1-2, which introduce the ILP model as a new way of thinking about…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Coping, Counseling Techniques
Demick, Jack, Ed.; Miller, Patrice M., Ed. – 1993
This book contains edited versions of papers from a symposium on adult development and a final integrative chapter. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Jack Demick, Patrice Miller); "Influences of World View on Personality, Epistemology, and Choice of Profession" (Melvin Miller, Alan West); "Developmental Conceptions of Good Work: A…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age Discrimination, Career Choice
Schwartz, Felice N.; Zimmerman, Jean – 1992
This book explores three questions: What is really going on now for women and men at home and on the job? What is wrong? and How can it be made to work? Its four parts are sometimes addressed explicitly to four intended types of readers: top executive of an organization; human resources officer; manager; and men and women at home and at work. The…
Descriptors: Career Development, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes
Shingleton, John D.; Anderson, James – 1993
This book, aimed at persons who choose or are forced to change jobs or careers in midlife, contains nine chapters of strategies and advice from two job placement and consulting professionals. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) the employment picture today; (2) looking for self-fulfillment in your career; (3) when to leave your old job;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Career Planning
Gustafson, Sigrid B.; Magnusson, David – 1991
A study traced the career development of 557 females from central Sweden who were participants in the Individual Development and Adjustment longitudinal study during its third year in 1968 (at which time they were in grade 6). The second part of the survey, which was conducted via a questionnaire mailed to all subjects when they were 26 years old,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Development
Seltz, Nancy C., Ed.; Collier, Helen V., Ed. – 1977
This collection of articles and bibliographies was compiled as an educational supplement to six seminars for career counselors serving adult clients in educational institutions and community agencies throughout southern Indiana. Subdivided into six areas of study, the manual parallels the organization of the year-long training program and…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Students
Bergquist, William H.; Phillips, Steven R. – 1981
The exercises and role playing activities in this third and final volume on faculty development are intended to assist college faculty in instructional, personal, organizational, and career development. The first section contains an introductory chapter that describes the three theoretical domains that provide a framework for the volume:…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Environment, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship
Yawkey, Thomas Daniels; Aronin, Eugene L. – 1976
The book presents career education activities and approaches for use by teachers, administrators, counselors, and students involved in early childhood education (ages three through eight). Part One stresses the importance of and rationale for career development in the early childhood curriculum. Research support for the approach to career…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Curriculum Guides
Pival, Jean G. – 1974
The growing demand on English departments for language-oriented courses for prospective teachers offers increased opportunities to the departmental linguist(s). English linguists possess a special expertise in language structure and analysis that gives them a unique advantage in designing and teaching such courses. A look at the training needs of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Career Development, Dialects, Elementary School Teachers
Weinrach, Stephen G. – 1975
In the past, the skill of the counselor has touched the lives of only a few children. Recently, the emerging role of the counselor as a specialist, consultant, group learer, and supervisor of paraprofessionals has broadened his contact with the student body as a whole. But these are only stopgap measures until a more highly integrated approach to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Curnow, Barry; And Others – 1994
According to this book, the world of work is changing to a future in which the 40-hour work week is obsolete. Many corporations are reducing core staff but are slow to grapple with the associated problems, such as how to motivate employees who will be retiring in a few years and how to make use of ex-employees on a consultancy basis. The book…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Development
Guskey, Thomas R., Ed.; Huberman, Michael, Ed. – 1995
Professional development is a crucial component in nearly every modern proposal for educational improvement. This book contains a collection of essays by individuals well known for their work in the professional development of educators. Each essay is a systematic effort to illustrate the conceptual grounds from which each professional-development…
Descriptors: Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Incentives
Kurfiss, Joanne, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This collection of papers, the sixth in an annual series, presents the views of members of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education on improving research, career development, conceptual models for program planning, and teaching and learning. Articles and authors are as follows: "The Need for Classroom Research"…
Descriptors: Career Development, Case Studies, Classroom Research, College Faculty
Storey, John; Edwards, Paul; Sisson, Keith – 1997
This book presents an analysis of the processes by which managers are made in Britain and Japan. It provides a detailed comparative study of the careers, training, developmental experience, and job demands of managers in eight companies in four sectors: engineering, banking, retail, and communications. Data are from the following sources:…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Career Development, Career Planning
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Schwartzbaum, Allan; And Others – 1977
The authors propose a new undergraduate social science curriculum which will enable sociology and anthropology majors to obtain an educational background adaptable to the changing job market. The program, which combines career education and the liberal arts, is organized by different themes which serve as the focus for learning and research within…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Career Development, Career Opportunities, College Instruction
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