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Download full textVanTassel-Baska, Joyce, Ed. – 1990
This book is intended to aid in the development of a counseling program component for gifted students. The 10 papers address the following areas: the nature and needs of the population, the role of interventionists (educators and parents), strategies for intervention, and model counseling programs. After an introductory paper which lists guiding…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Counselors
Wehman, Paul; And Others – 1989
The monograph presents preliminary results from 27 states that received systems change model demonstration funds from the U.S. Rehabilitation Services Administration in 1986 and 1987. These funds were targeted to modify existing adult day programs for persons with severe disabilities and provide supported employment programs as alternative…
Descriptors: Adults, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Federal Regulation
Johnson, C. D., Ed.; Johnson, Sharon K., Ed. – 2002
This publication brings together authors from a variety of fields to speculate about the future of counseling. Some believe that change in the future will be incremental and of a short-term nature, resolving problems as they arise. Others see transitional changes that will be orderly and linear, while still others see transformational change with…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Elementary Secondary Education
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on action learning that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Searching for Meaning in Complex Action Learning Data: What Environments, Acts, and Words Reveal" (Verna J. Willis) analyzes complex action learning documents produced as course…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Case Studies
2001
This document contains three papers on informal learning and human resource development. "Workplace Learning Reviewed: Confronting the Rhetoric with Empirical Research" (Rob F. Poell, Ferd J. Van der Krogt) discusses the considerable discrepancy between theory on workplace learning and actual workplace learning-related developments in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Adult Learning, Case Studies
2000
This document contains the six of the seven keynote speeches from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. "IVETA (International Vocational Education and Training Association) 2000 Conference 6-9 August 2000" (K.Y. Yeung) discusses the objectives and activities…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
Intergenerational Programmes: Public Policy and Research Implications--An International Perspective.
Alan Hatton-Yeo; Toshio Ohsako – 2000
This document consists of 12 papers that, together, summarize the key issues underpinning future research and policy development related to intergenerational programs (IPs). "Introduction" (Alan Hatton-Yeo) discusses the project out of which the papers developed. "A General Assessment of IP Initiatives in the Countries…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies
Milne, Ann M., Ed. – 1998
This document contains six studies that were commissioned for the National Assessment of Vocational Education. "Introduction" (Ann M. Milne) provides an overview of the reforms of the 1980s. "The Impact of Educational Reform on Vocational Education" (Marion Asche, Donald E. Elson, Ann Echols, Arthur Williams) examines primary…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Brown, Betty J., Ed. – 2001
This document contains 15 papers devoted to the theme of management of business education. "Management of Business Education: A Perspective" (Betty J. Brown) discusses business education as education about business and education for business. The following papers explore the theme of managing the curriculum: "The Basic Business and Economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Business Education, Business Administration Education, Business Education
Pautler, Albert J., Jr., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 22 papers on workforce education issues for the new century: "Introduction" (Alfred J. Pautler, Jr.); "Vocational Education: Past, Present, and Future" (Cheryl L. Hogg); "A Philosophic View for Seeing the Past of Vocational Education and Envisioning the Future of Workforce Education: Pragmatism…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Associate Degrees, Career Development, Career Education
Poonwassie, Deo H., Ed.; Poonwassie, Anne, Ed. – 2001
This document contains 20 papers on the fundamentals of adult education and foundations, practices, and issues for lifelong learning. The following papers are included: "The Metamorphoses of Andragogy" (James A. Draper); "Stages in the Development of Canadian Adult Education" (Gordon Selman); "Philosophical…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Barnow, Burt S., Ed.; King, Christopher T., Ed. – 2000
This book, which is intended for policymakers, administrators, and researchers, contains 13 research papers and reviews of the literature on increasing the effectiveness of publicly funded training. The following papers are included: "Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labor Market" (Burt S. Barnow, Christopher T. King); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers
Stenstrom, Marja-Leena, Ed.; Lasonen, Johanna, Ed. – 2000
This document contains 24 papers examining strategies for reforming initial vocational education and training (VET) in Europe. The following papers are included: "Reassessing VET Reform Strategies in a New Context: Implementation of the SPES-NET (Sharpening Post-16 Education Strategies by Horizontal and Vertical Networking) Project"…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)
