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Download full textBrodin, Jane – 1995
This study surveyed how respite care services functioned for Swedish families who have children with disabilities and compared the results with a previous study made 6 years earlier. The study was based on a questionnaire completed by 245 of Sweden's municipalities. The study examined the quantity and quality of the services and respondents' views…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Disabilities, Family Needs, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBrodin, J. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1998
A study investigated 57 Swedish day centers for individuals with mental retardation found that half of the staff had not received information on assistive devices and that inservice training was primarily with communication devices, mobility aids, and lifting devices. Knowledge of time control devices was limited. (CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Day Care Centers
Sheridan, Sonja – 1995
The Lerum Competence Development Project seeks to develop a model for educator inservice training to improve the quality of day care. Lerum is a small community outside Goteborg, Sweden, with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The expansion of childcare provision within the community necessitates support of the teachers because of economic and…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Educational Change
Teather, David C. B., Ed. – 1979
A review and bibliography of staff development in higher education in several countries is presented. Contents are as follows: Australia by Geoff Foster and Ernest Roe; Britain universities by John Nisbet and Ray McAleese; Britain polytechnics by Harriet Greenaway and Derek Mortimer; Canada by Bruce M. Shore; Denmark by John Conrad; The Federal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Education, Educational Status Comparison, Faculty Development
Palmerus, Kerstin; Pramling, Ingrid – 1991
This paper reports on a study designed to increase the psychological and educational knowledge of day care staff and develop content and methods appropriate for toddlers in day care settings. Preschool teachers and nursery nurses in three day care centers participated. They were interviewed at the beginning of the study, and 19 months later at the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Competency Based Teacher Education, Day Care Centers
Claude, Armand; And Others – 1980
These proceedings of a workshop designed to test a model for a seminar to train adult educators and to discuss the characteristics of adult education in Nordic countries (with special attention to underprivileged groups) consist of a general report and syntheses of two group sessions. Discussed in the general report are the background and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged
Clough, Barbara Stolze, Ed. – 1990
Among 17 French and 63 English papers are the following: "Case Study of the Convergence Model in Program Evaluation" (Alexander); "Nowlen's Approach to Continuing Professional Education" (Blanchard); "Challenge for Indigenous Approaches to Adult Education (AE) and Development" (Bonson); "Cultural and Social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
