Forum Syd (Forum Syd Balkans Programme [FSBP]--Organizations Co-operating for Global Justice) is an umbrella organization for 200 member organizations in Sweden. It has worked in the Balkans for more than a decade. FSBP believes that community based youth work is a valuable tool for building and sustaining peaceful communities and its mission is…

In this article on Sweden's very comprehensive labor market training scheme, the author provides a description of an approach to vocational training that is part of broader welfare state policies designed to maintain high levels of employment through state intervention in the market economy. (Editor/CT)

This article analyzes the identified needs of school leader training in Sweden against the background of objectives and a general policy of decentralization. Strategies designed to meet these needs are described along with evaluative comments. (Author/CJ)

The article presents an approach to emergency response training that combines simulation of hazardous environmental factors with extensive registration of the activities in a training scenario. Simulation enhances realism by exposing the trainees to representations of hazards without putting them at risk. Registration generates data that describe…

Describes transfer of methods of the PRIDE program for foster parent training and assessment from Sweden and Finland, to Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Estonia. Discusses three critical factors: program content, methodology used to accomplish the transfer, and commitment of the transferring organizations and individuals involved. Considers the…

The Post-16 Strategies project coordinated by Dr. Johanna Lasonen from 1996 to 1998 was chiefly concerned with four post-16 education strategies: (1) "vocational enhancement"; (2) "mutual enrichment"; (3) "linkages;" and (4) "unification." These four strategies to promote parity of esteem between vocational…

As follow-up to a five-year Council for Cultural Cooperation project on migrants, a seminar and roundtable discussion on the theory and practice of intercultural education in Europe is presented. Seminar participants include educators and administrators from Belgium, West Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden as well as a representative from the…

This study of the conditions of developmental on-the-job training and learning for operators in highly automated industries is written in Swedish but contains an English abstract and 18-page summary. The summary begins with the study objectives, which were to determine the following: (1) conditions of developmental on-the-job learning in highly…