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Vickers, Caroline H.; Deckert, Sharon K. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2013
This article demonstrates how one woman's identity changed as she was empowered through her participation in a sewing cooperative community of practice. A community of practice framework allows examination of participation in ongoing negotiated interactions in which people construct expert and novice identities as they work together. Identity, as…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Communities of Practice, Expertise, Immigrants
Knitting, Lace, and Net Industry Training Board, Nottingham (England). – 1969
This booklet gives details, approved by the British Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, of grants which will be paid by the Knitting, Lace, and Net Industry Board for training and further education during the training year, 1 August 1969-31 July 1970. Two categories are stressed: (1) day, block, release, and full time courses and…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Evening Programs, Governing Boards, Grants
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1983
This teacher's guide, consisting of a series of 12 lesson plans for use in teaching 20 self-paced learning modules, deals with industrial sewing. Covered in the individual lesson plans are the following topics: an orientation to industrial sewing; the history of industrial sewing; safety and hygiene in the laboratory and in the factory; machine…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Field Trips, Glossaries, Guidelines
Bourque, Janet; And Others – 1983
This curriculum is designed to serve as a guide for use by teachers conducting a course in crafts sewing as a business. Covered in the individual units of the course are the following topics: business skills (law, finance, insurance, and computer use); psychology and ethics (the effect of business on home and family, and ethical and effective…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Skills, Craft Workers, Entrepreneurship
Claus, Robert; And Others – 1981
This course guide for an industrial crafts course is one of four developed for the production area in the North Dakota senior high industrial arts education program. (Eight other guides are available for two other areas of Industrial Arts--energy/power and graphic communications.) Part 1 provides such introductory information as a definition and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Ceramics, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Occupational Education and Technology. – 1980
Designed for use in teaching a clothing service program, this clothing service guide is suitable for use with students in vocational education for the handicapped (VEH) programs and with mainstreamed special education students in other occupational home economics programs. The first section deals with various aspects of home economics VEH,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clothing, Clothing Instruction, Competence