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Lingenfelter, Paul E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2004
Twenty-first century conditions are adding new dimensions to the relationship between states and higher education.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, State Government, Government School Relationship
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Riehl, Carolyn – Sociology of Education, 2001
Considers how qualitative research has enhanced knowledge of four topics in the sociology of education: (1) educational inequality, (2) socialization, (3) identity formation, and (4) school organization and educational policy. Argues that qualitative studies have introduced new voices, perspectives, and themes into traditional understanding. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Foreman-Peck, James – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
A distinctive feature of the British approach until the 1960s was that vocational education and training (VET) should be provided by employers. This is conventionally contrasted with the much more formal state coordinated approach of Germany. The question posed is whether the British style was the "spontaneous order" that results because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational History, Apprenticeships
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Cegarra-Navarro, Juan G.; Sabater-Sanchez, Ramon – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: Feedback learning transforms social knowledge into individual knowledge. In this process, tension arises because the current knowledge impedes the assimilation of new learning. Therefore, the feedback requires what Schumpeter refers to as "creative destruction": discarding, or at least setting aside, the institutional order to enact…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Information Systems, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Management
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Lawson, Hal A. – Sport, Education and Society, 2005
Do sport, exercise, and physical education (SEPE) professionals empower the people they serve and contribute to community development? Do SEPE policies, programs, and practices contribute to sustainable economic and social development, making them worthwhile governmental investments? These questions frame the ensuing analysis. Empowerment-oriented…
Descriptors: Community Development, Human Capital, Physical Education, Sustainable Development
US Department of Education, 2006
This document reflects Federal Student Aid's solid progress in meeting strategic objectives since becoming a Performance-Based Organization. Specifically, the plan addresses continuing efforts to increase program integrity, improve customer service and achieve measurable results in the management and administration of the Title IV student…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Objectives, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Many major corporations and national organizations have been pointing to the need for improved K-12 and collegiate opportunities for minorities since the early 1970s. They have argued that such an infrastructure would be necessary to provide Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and others with the background to enter the science and engineering…
Descriptors: Corporations, Labor Force, Graduation Rate, Human Capital
Pittman, Robert B. – 1996
Several studies raise serious doubts about whether economic development should be a goal for rural education and whether a causal relationship exists between education level and income. This study sought to determine the nature of the relationship between level of schooling and income level. Census data from 1940 to the present for 13 rural states…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
Mincer, Jacob – 1989
This document, a review of labor market effects of human capital, focuses on two related topics. Part I describes the following early findings of the research on effects of education and job training on the wage structure, labor turnover, and unemployment: decline of training with experience, positive and significant effects of training on length…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Capital, Job Training, Labor Economics
Frederiksen, Jens V.; Westphalen, Sven-Age – 1998
This document examines the principles, use, and benefits of human resource accounting (HRA), which uses numerical and nonnumerical data on items such as costs and benefits of training, staff turnover, absenteeism, and the value of employees' knowledge to measure the value of human resources in enterprises. The introduction presents an overview of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Case Studies, Data Analysis
1991
The American Association for Agricultural Education's distinguished lecture process provides agricultural educators with opportunities to discuss relevant professional problems. The 1980s lectures examined the organization's position in relationship to the environment. Programs developed human capital potential for the agricultural industry and…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Human Capital, Lecture Method
Howley, Aimee – 1990
To help administrators understand the organizational, social, and ideological forces impeding their efforts to empower teachers, this paper provides three critiques of teacher empowerment proposals from functionalist, structural Marxist, and poststructural perspectives. Although the 1980s reform reports promote a type of empowerment that accords…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Conservatism, Curriculum Development, Democratic Values
Nishida, Kikuo – 1990
This paper seeks to answer the following questions: What is educational planning? In what way can educational development contribute to the socioeconomic development of society? How can a plan be effectively implemented? What are the major characteristics of educational development in Japan as compared to that in other countries? The discussion of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Economic Development, Educational Development, Educational History
Eash, Maurice J.; Fitzgerald, Ronald J. – 1987
The current United States industrial policy is not working in the new international economy. As jobs are increasingly exported overseas, the United States faces a major problem in revitalization of its economy. Occupational education has a major role in the revitalization of the country's economy through the upgrading of the training and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Economic Progress, Economics, Human Capital
Wadeskog, Anders – School Research Newsletter, 1987
The public sector in Sweden is under pressure to augment its productivity and cut costs, and the education sector is faced with the same demands. Most people believe that adequately proportioned, efficiently operating schools are essential to Sweden's long-term economic development, but this is seldom mentioned in connection with spending cuts. In…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Economic Development, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education
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