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South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1983
This set of 61 student learning modules deals with various topics pertaining to human development. The modules, which are designed for use in performance-based vocational education programs, each contain the following components: an introduction for the student, a performance objective, a variety of learning activities, content information, a…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Child Rearing
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1983
This instructor's guide is designed for use with an accompanying set of 61 student learning modules on human development. Included among the topics covered in the individual modules are the following: consumer and homemaking education (health and nutrition, personal appearance and grooming, puberty, menstruation, the human reproductive system,…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Child Rearing
American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, DC. – 1983
This manual is designed to help company officials who are responsible for planning, implementing, and coordinating company and school collaborative programs. Addressed in the individual chapters of the guide are the following topics: the benefits and principles of establishing company and school linkages; procedures for determining a company's…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Business, Career Education, Consumer Education
Kates, Donna – 1983
This guide contains both teacher and student materials for a one-semester course in consumer education to be presented as part of an 11th or 12th grade or an adult vocational home economics program. The book is organized into six sections containing 15 units of instruction. The sections cover the following topics: management (of time, money,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection, Employment Opportunities
Nashville - Davidson County Metropolitan Public Schools, TN. – 1984
This guide, which was written as an initial step in the development of a systemwide articulated curriculum sequence for all vocational programs within the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System, outlines the suggested scope and sequence of a two-semester course in home economics that is designed to provide ninth-grade students with an…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Child Development
Download full textDrew, Jenifer D.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the extent to which federal policies, as defined in the Education Amendments of 1976, have affected the content and objectives of Consumer and Homemaking Education (C&HE) programs. The study was conducted during 1978 through 1981 in 10 states. More than 500 federal, state, and local educators and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Consumer Education, Educational Change
Griffin, Wilma Pitts; Clayton, Kermeta Kay – 1981
The Standards for Vocational Home Economics Education were developed to maintain quality and to encourage excellence in vocational home economics education programs at all educational levels among the states and territories of the United States. The Standards are designed to be used by teachers, local supervisors, teacher educators, state staffs,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Administrator Qualifications, Advisory Committees
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1977
The document is the third in a series of four competency-based inservice teacher education modules in consumer education. The main objective of the program is to assist curriculum developers and elementary and secondary classroom teaches as they plan, develop, implement, and evaluate a multidisciplinary consumer education program. The present…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Consumer Economics
Grabowski, Stanley M., Ed. – 1973
This bibliography contains citations for dissertations pertaining to the education or training of adults. The dissertations include those completed under the guidance of professors in member institutions of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education, those under the guidance of professors from other institutions not associated with the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies
Hajaj, Khaldoun – 2002
Despite calls by consumer advocates for Australia's governments and financial services institutions to provide consumers with resources to help them understand how the financial services sector operates, financial education remains something that most Australians gain by default. Research conducted in the United Kingdom and United States, has…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
US Department of Education, 2005
Every year, millions of high school graduates seek ways to finance the rising costs of a college education, at times falling prey to scholarship and financial aid scams. To help students and their families, on November 5, 2000, Congress passed the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000 (Act) to establish stricter sentencing guidelines…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Databases, Internet, Student Financial Aid
Connecticut State Board of Education, Hartford. – 2001
These Connecticut vocational and technical performance standards and competencies are a guide for overall quality attainment in these seven vocational and technical program areas: agricultural science technology education; business and finance technology education; cooperative work education; family and consumer sciences education; marketing…
Descriptors: Accounting, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1996
This document is a comprehensive report of Ohio activities related to the expenditures of federal funds under the Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990. Section I describes the progress Ohio has made in achieving the objectives outlined in the State Plan for the Administration of Vocational Education in Ohio. It…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development
Nunes, Evelyn H., Ed. – 1992
This manual contains evaluations of 196 instructional products listed in Virginia's Adult Basic Education Curricula Resource Catalog. It is intended as a convenient reference manual for making informed decisions concerning materials for adult learners in adult basic education, English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, and general educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Development, Career Education, Citizenship Education
Garrahy, Dennis J. – 1982
One of a series of social studies units designed to develop the reading and writing skills of low achievers, this student activity book focuses on the theme of consumerism. The unit can be used for high school classes, individual study in alternative and continuing high schools, and adult education classes. Following an introduction, five sections…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advertising, Anthologies, Budgeting
