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Direct linkDoty, Ann V.; Odom, Robin T. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1997
Defines youth and adult apprenticeships as key elements in school-to-work transition. Describes key characteristics of apprenticeship programs and the nature of exemplary programs, including a table of characteristics of 12 model programs. Discusses current changes in such programs to meet employer and student needs. Offers suggestions for…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Models
Keislar, Evan R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1976
Work experience programs for youth can be a means of developing coping, decision-making, and problem solving skills, and other affectively oriented outcomes. The types of personal outcomes of career education and the means of fostering these are reviewed. (Author/JDS)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Career Education, Individual Development, Postsecondary Education
Ginsburg, Mark B.; Silberman, Harry F. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1976
Reviews the issues associated with the school-to-work transition and suggests needed areas for research. (JDS)
Descriptors: Research Needs, School Business Relationship, Vocational Adjustment, Work Experience Programs
Hawkins, John N. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1976
The problem of school-to-work transition in the People's Republic of China has been ameliorated by instituting a two-year work-study period between secondary and postsecondary schooling, by directing the focus of liberal arts education toward solution of practical problems, and by developing community-based technical colleges. (Author/JDS)
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Postsecondary Education, Technical Institutes, Vocational Adjustment
Carder, Brooks – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1976
Synanon has eased the school-to-work transition because it does not maintain a dichotomy between vocational education and academic education. At age 10, children take on productive jobs in the community under Synanon School staff supervision. At 13 they begin rotating "mini-apprenticeships", sampling a variety of occupational fields…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Group Experience, Social Environment, Vocational Education
Rinnander, Elizabeth – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1976
A bibliography of ERIC documents dealing with cooperative education, the impact of work-experience programs, needs assessment for work-related curricula, and experiential education in the community college. (JDS)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Needs Assessment
Download full textSilberman, Harry F., Ed.; Ginsburg, Mark B., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1976
The transition from schooling to work has been recognized as a difficult one. As society has become more modernized, the problem of transition has become even more aggravated. American postsecondary education has a role to play in making this transition less difficult, and in integrating the educational process into the world of work. This…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Students, Community Colleges, Educational Trends
