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McGrane, Bernard – Teaching Sociology, 1993
Describes a portion of an introductory college course in sociology that examines the role of work in socialization. States the activity's central question is, "Where does society end and my self begin?" Includes student accounts of their feelings about the activity. (CFR)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies

Eide, Eric R.; Ronan, Nick – Economics of Education Review, 2001
Does varsity sports participation impart valuable skills? Using height as a participation instrument, a study of High School and Beyond data shows that sports participation negatively affects white male students' educational attainment, positively affects black male students' educational attainment and earnings, and positively affects white female…
Descriptors: Athletics, Black Students, Educational Attainment, Extracurricular Activities
Lantz, Sarah – Journal of Youth Studies, 2005
Students in Australia are entering the sex industry as a pragmatic response to increasing education costs and a reduction in government income support. This paper examines the lived experiences of a group of 40 young women, all post-secondary education students, working in the Melbourne sex industry. Their experiences suggest that while the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Labor Market, Young Adults
Rutherford, F. James – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2005
As I look back at K-12 science education in post-World War II America, it strikes me that surprisingly little progress has been made. This disappointing outcome cannot be due to a lack of effort, for in the last half-century our investment in science education reform--human and financial--has been substantial. In this essay, I focus first on some…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Change, Science Education History, Elementary Secondary Education
Szabo, Katalin; Negyesi, Aron – Human Resource Development Review, 2005
Permanent employment, typical of industrial societies and bolstered by numerous social guaranties, has been declining in the past 2 decades. There has been a steady expansion of various forms of contingent work. The decomposition of traditional work is a logical consequence of the characteristic patterns of the knowledge-based economy. According…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Role, Employment Patterns
Roberts, Ken – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2004
This article reviews trends in school-to-work transitions since the 1970s and argues that educational expansion (more young people extending their school and college careers) is a large part of the problem, rather than an actual or potential solution to young people's transition difficulties. The causes of educational expansion are identified as…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Human Capital
North Dakota University System, 2007
This document is a tool for demonstrating that the University System is meeting the "flexibility with accountability" expectations of SB 2003 passed by the 2001 Legislative Assembly. The 2007 report reflects some of the many ways North Dakota University System (NDUS) colleges and universities are developing the human capital needed to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Accountability, College Role
Santiago, Deborah A., Comp. – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2007
By 2025, 22 percent of the U.S. college-age population will be Latino, a level already reached in four states: California, Florida, New York, and Texas. Meeting the country's future human capital and workforce needs make it imperative to improve outcomes for Latino students today. As public attention is focused on current achievement gaps,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Hispanic American Students, Achievement Gap
Smith, Eldon D.; DeYoung, Alan J. – 1992
This paper focuses on the political economy of public education in depressed rural regions of the United States. The general hypothesis explored is that occupational composition of the community workforce and associated educational requirements for employment are significant elements of the sociopolitical environment for public education. Part I…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities
Miller, Riel – 1996
This book explores the problem of developing a framework for rethinking human capital information and decision making in light of the economic changes that are currently occurring in many Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. It examines human capital information and decision making in the context of recent developments…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competence, Decision Making, Economic Change
Senese, Guy B. – 1991
This book is a critical analysis of the concept of self-determination as it has been developed in the federal government's American Indian social and educational policies since the 1950s. Analyses focus on the links between Indian educational policy and economic development concerns and on the ways in which the idealistic language of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Economic Development, Educational Policy
Johnson, Thomas G.; Broomhall, David E. – 1992
Long-term underinvestment in education in central Appalachia has resulted in a work force that is not highly adaptable to employment in other areas besides coal-based industries. Employers who require skilled workers and who pay higher wages are discouraged from locating in the area by a less educated work force. This study identifies factors that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Attitudes
Carnevale, Anthony P.; And Others – 1990
This document, one of the results of a 3-year study, provides an overview of training in the United States in terms of who gets trained and how the training itself is organized, structured, and delivered. The findings were developed through a literature review, the work of advisory panels, feedback from 400 experts and practitioners, interviews…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Change Agents, Cooperative Programs
Bendick, Marc, Jr.; Egan, Mary Lou – 1982
This working paper, part of a project on the applicability of the French training system in the United States, argues that a systematic national commitment to midcareer worker retraining is necessary for American prosperity and international economic competitiveness. Although findings of the early human capital theorists demonstrated that an…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Change, Federal Programs, Human Capital

Wong, Herbert Y.; Sanders, Jimy M. – 1982
Different and competing theories of the disadvantagement of women in academia are explored through reviews of the literature and an examination of the graduate training experiences of men and women. An explanatory model of graduate training experiences from a human capital theory approach is constructed that considers the human capital accumulated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Awards, Doctoral Programs, Employment Potential