This qualitative case study examined the research exploring how female teachers had perceived their potential challenges in becoming a principal, and how those perceptions actually changed as they made the move from the classroom to the principal's office. The purpose of the study is to investigate how female administrative candidates assessed and…

Reports on a study made to identify the characteristics of the environment that contribute to decision unit members experiencing uncertainty in decisionmaking. Two dimensions of the environment are identified: the simple-complex -- the number of factors taken into consideration in decisionmaking, and the static-dynamic -- the degree to which these…

The volume focuses on case studies conducted in France, Norway, the United Kingdom, and West Germany depicting educational provisions for handicapped young people. Interviews with 20 young adults who have recently attended special institutions show them examining their experiences and commenting on their preparation for adult life. Experiences of…

This book contains 12 papers examining established and newly emerging theories of career choice and development. Following prefaces to the third, second, and first editions by Duane Brown and Linda Brooks, the following papers are included: "Introduction to Theories of Career Development and Choice: Origins, Evolution, and Current Efforts" (Duane…

This guide from Library Association Publishing has been designed to assist those wishing to review mentoring for its application to a particular workplace, the library. Often making use of a question and answer format, it discusses the roles of both the mentor and the protege, including potential benefits for each party and behaviors each party…

A series of papers is presented from two symposia sponsored by the Work Environment and Technology Committee and offered at annual conferences of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. The 1988 symposium was called "Applying Technology in the Work Environment" and the 1989 symposium was called "Reasonable…

This book, which is intended to assist teachers, supported employment personnel, and employment specialists, provides information on supports and methods that have proved successful in helping persons with autism obtain and hold jobs. Discussed in chapters 1-5 are the following topics: autism and vocational fitness; vocational planning for workers…

The paper examines occupational mobility or fluidity among scientists in the Soviet Union. The problem of fluidity is inseparably linked with the problem of adaptation to the work organization. The occupational stability of workers is affected by the type and conditions of their work, which are determined by a complex of objective and subjective…

This document, which was developed through a decade of research and field testing involving more than 700 people, offers step-by-step strategies that educators, employment specialists, occupational therapists, and other professionals can use to help youths and adults with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities make their own employment choices.…

The purpose of this study was to compare the post-school adjustment of educable mentally retarded students having off campus work experience with a contrast group without school sponsored placement and supervision on jobs in the community. The major hypothesis in the investigation was that among educable mentally retarded youths who are enrolled…

A compilation of presentations from a meeting on psychiatry and the deaf, the text includes the following discussions: background and history of the New York State mental health program for the deaf; an introduction to the program of the New York School for the Deaf; school psychiatric preventive programs; adjustment problems presented by a panel…

This report describes on a first-hand basis the role played by the "coach" in the Vermont Experimental and Demonstration Manpower Pilot Project. The paraprofessional coach, or "employment service aide," acts as a client advocate who helps the client adjust to a work environment. As one part of a three member employability team,…

Researchers explored the relationships between the great working class communities and the industries they sustained and were sustained by in terms of production, storage, and transmission of skills. First, the ethnographic literature on industrial workplaces and the working class communities associated with them was reviewed. Next, lengthy…

This collection of papers, consisting of six reports, is the result of a research project during which vocational educators from the United Kingdom traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany to examine the ways in which secondary school students in that country learn about the world of work. Included in the volume are the following reports:…