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Smith, Suzanna D.; Price, Sharon J. – 1988
Thousands of workers have been dislocated from jobs in the textile and apparel industries as a result of recessions and structural changes in the economy. Because of the large concentrations of female workers in these industries, women have been particularly vulnerable to dislocation. This study examined job dislocation and factors that affect…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Change, Dislocated Workers, Employment
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This document contains the text of a congressional hearing focusing on successful private and public ventures in job training efforts. The purpose was to learn how to expand or extend programs in the private sector that provide job training to underskilled and undereducated workers in conjunction with the public sector. The bulk of the document…
Descriptors: Business, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support
Lindahl, Ronald A. – 1984
The current rate of technological change demands changes in the ways educational administrators are trained. On one hand, administrators need more systematic inservice programs to update their skills and they themselves must provide their staffs improved inservice training. On the other hand, increasing specialization precludes administrators from…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Management Development
Lindsay, Carl; And Others – Adult Education, 1974
The paper describes and illustrates the utility of the Content-Based Group-Assessment Model for developing programs of continuing professional education. A recent study of physical educators is used to demonstrate the potential utility of the model in developing curricular programs. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Models
Wees, W. R. – Monday Morning, 1970
Descriptors: Art Expression, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives
Welden, J. Eugene – Amer Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Rumberger, Russell – 1984
Two myths about high technology are that it will be the primary source of new jobs and that it will vastly upgrade the skill requirements of jobs. Evidence does not support these myths. Most new jobs will not be in high tech fields, and technology will reduce the skill requirements. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that high tech…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Responsibility, Employment Projections, Job Development
Technical Education Reporter, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Ladders, Employment Opportunities, Entry Workers
Pearlstein, Richard B.; Swezey, Robert W. – Training, 1974
New "packaged memory" devices increase the worker's capacity for information storage and retrieval and dramatically reduce the amount of theory training necessary in highly technical jobs. (Author)
Descriptors: Appliance Repair, Autoinstructional Aids, Equipment Maintenance, Individualized Instruction
Dutton, Donnie – 1978
Adults must continue to learn. The accelerating pace of cultural change has made today's knowledge and skills tomorrow's obsolescence. A society that makes its educational investment almost entirely in children and youth is on the way to becoming obsolete and is reducing its survival chances. To promote the cause of lifelong learning, we need to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Lowitt, Julian – 1973
In the rehabilitation workshop there is insufficient attention to job development oriented to the current and future needs of industry. Many types of work which were done in vocational workshops in contract from industrial firms are now done by automation. Semiskilled labor is thus in diminished demand. There is a twenty year lag in the industrial…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Industrial Education, Industry
Prasow, Paul; Massarik, Fred – 1969
There is a great imbalance between the effort devoted to technological change and the attention given to the social and economic consequences of this change. Although automation has strong implications for society, the real problem is not the changes themselves; instead, it is our failure to understand and adjust for these changes. Using data…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Automation, Data Processing, Field Interviews
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Johnson, Mildred Fitzgerald – Business Education Forum, 1976
Views the present status of the data entry system, the hardware involved, and the keypunch as part of this hardware. It is noted that the demand for keypunch operators will probably be just as great between 1976-80 as it is today. (HD)
Descriptors: Business Education, Data Processing, Data Processing Occupations, Input Output Devices
Blum, Albert A. – Training and Development Journal, 1971
The article deals with the efforts of nine different countries to overcome the problems of job obsolescence due to automation and the education and training of youth to fit the needs of the times. (EK)
Descriptors: Community Role, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, On the Job Training
Roberts, Higdon C. – Manpower, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Automation
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