This industrial training handbook covers the following areas: preparatory considerations; training methods and techniques; training for specific functions; and established organizations. Part I examines the extension and re-designing of technical colleges since the 1920's and the present integration of the work of colleges with the needs of…

Focusing on adult business education in the public evening school, the monograph first presents a brief history of the educational form and its philosophical foundations for progress and then lists programs of adult business curriculums, both preparatory and supplementary. The broad preparatory programs offer courses to educate adults for entry…

The manual describes the Ohio career education inservice program which attempts to emphasize closer contact with the world of work, replacing traditional inservice program emphasis on developing teacher efficiency within the classroom. The diagnostic-prescriptive technique is incorporated into the manual. An introductory section presents an…

This manual describes procedures for conducting a program to train personnel for educational research and development (R & D). It is intended as a guide for any institution planning to administer such a training program. The program may be utilized in several ways. They are: (1) for training various types of personnel for educational R & D; (2) as…

In an effort to provide nontraditional students with the same opportunity as traditional students to reach the highest level of skills and competencies associated with hi-tech, high-wage employment, the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) offers alternatives to its historically successful full-time day program in chemical technology.…

A discussion is provided of the role of community colleges as the primary delivery sources for workforce retraining, using the Pellissippi State Workforce Innovation Program as a case study. The first sections of the paper document the need for worker retraining in the United States, reporting the Department of Labor Secretary's Commission on…

The Minnesota Defense Conversion Adjustment Project was initiated in 1993 with funding provided through the U.S. Department of Labor's Defense Conversion Adjustment Program to help workers at a Minnesota defense plant make the transition from assembler and related production classifications to machinists and other positions requiring specific job…

Thirty-one papers are included in this compilation: "Learning as a Part of Political Campaigning" (Boggs); "Life Review among Senior Citizens as Product of Drama" (Boggs, Leptak); "The Knowing/Doing Dilemma" (Bodrey, Felstehausen); "Facilitating Individuation in the Adult Learning Group" (Dirkx); "The Fourth R: Relationships in the Adult Basic…

This manual was developed as a guide for setting up a workplace education program. Based on the Workplace Education Project (WEP) in Peterborough, Ontario, the manual contains nine chapters that provide details of the WEP and suggestions for implementing the process in other locations. The first chapter provides a rationale for a WEP program, and…