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"No One Ever Showed Me Nothing": Skill and Self-Making among Trinidadian Garment Workers
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Prentice, Rebecca – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
This article examines the relationship between skill acquisition and the constitution of economic selfhood in Trinidad. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among garment workers in a context of industrial decline, I show how their formal, informal, and illicit means of acquiring sewing skills are inextricably linked to the fragmented and unstable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Industry, Sewing Instruction
Precision Metal Fabrication. Florida Vocational Program Guide.
University of South Florida, Tampa. Dept. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide identifies considerations in the organization, operation, and evaluation of secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. It contains both a vocational program guide and Career Merit Achievement Plan (Career MAP) for precision metal fabrication. The guide contains the following sections: occupational description; program…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Curriculum Design, Employment Potential, Entrepreneurship
Metal Fabrication. Florida Vocational Program Guide.
University of South Florida, Tampa. Dept. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide identifies considerations in the organization, operation, and evaluation of secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. It contains both a vocational program guide and Career Merit Achievement Plan (Career MAP) for metal fabrication. The guide contains the following sections: occupational description; program content…
Descriptors: Blueprints, Curriculum Design, Employment Potential, Entrepreneurship
Plastics Technology.
Barker, Tommy G. – 1984
This curriculum guide is designed to assist junior high schools industrial arts teachers in planning new courses and revising existing courses in plastics technology. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: introduction to production technology; history and development of plastics; safety; youth leadership,…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Entrepreneurship, Equipment Utilization, Finishing
Woodworking Technology.
Winek, Gary – 1984
This curriculum guide is designed to assist junior high school industrial arts teachers in planning new courses and revising existing courses in woodworking. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: introduction to manufacturing; laboratory management (youth leadership, entrepreneurship, and laboratory…
Descriptors: Carpentry, Design, Entrepreneurship, Finishing
Basic Cabinet Making and Millwork. Florida Vocational Program Guide.
University of South Florida, Tampa. Dept. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1988
This program guide identifies primary concerns in the organization, operation, and evaluation of a basic cabinetmaking and millwork program. The guide begins with the Dictionary of Occupational Titles occupational description. A section on program content presents the curriculum framework that contains major concepts/content, laboratory…
Descriptors: Cabinetmaking, Career Development, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education
Cabinet Making and Millwork. Florida Vocational Program Guide.
University of South Florida, Tampa. Dept. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1988
This program guide identifies primary concerns in the organization, operation, and evaluation of a cabinet making and millwork program. The guide begins with the Dictionary of Occupational Titles occupational description. A section on program content presents the curriculum framework that contains major concepts/content, laboratory activities,…
Descriptors: Cabinetmaking, Career Development, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education