Discusses the elements of a curriculum that emphasizes interpersonal communication skills and intergenerational diversity training to prepare business education students for the challenges they will face as managers and professionals. (JOW)

Uses a model of job change gains and losses to underpin research on new (British) headteachers and deputies, examining gains and losses accompanying the deputy-to-headteacher transition, the degree these were anticipated, and seriousness of their effects. Many of the 87 deputies were deterred by headship burdens; 37 new, well-prepared principals…

Describes a "Stress Day" that parallels the reality of a workplace and places students under the pressure of a workday. Notes that it provides three stressors: high pressure, short time frame, and tight target job. Describes how students take charge of the class and use emails, memos, voice-mail and letters to arrange for a guest speaker for a…

Offers suggestions for college admissions and financial aid officers on coping with job stress and managing burnout. These include: remember that it's usually not personal, a little paranoia is a good thing, don't hire difficult people, and accept not being able to do your best work on every task. (EV)

Workplace literacy learners used photos of their lives and work to create a personally meaningful curriculum. The project revealed the meaning of work and learning in their new culture and the ways they adapted to and changed their work environment. The necessity of incorporating learners' perspectives in workplace literacy was emphasized.…

A study of on-the-job training for 36 Dutch call center trainees and 46 new post office clerks found that training goals were only partly achieved. Self-efficacy, prior experience with tasks, management support, and workload were the most powerful influences on the effectiveness of training. (SK)

From interviews and site visits with 22 teachers, four environmental inhibitors to informal workplace learning emerged: lack of time for learning, lack of proximity to learning resources, lack of meaningful rewards, and limited decision-making power in school management. Ways to facilitate teachers' learning include strategic classroom…

Outlines research basics for technical communicators collecting qualitative information in a workplace environment. Discusses: developing researchable questions from workplace experiences; searching existing literature for credible research reports; using observation, artifacts, and interviews as sources of information for answering workplace…

A review of the history of diversity management resulted in a call for a new agenda that encourages more collaboration between scholars and administrators, increased researcher observation of workplace reactions to diversity management initiatives, more informative and rigorous case studies, and more third-party evaluations of diversity management…

"Leading cultures" has a double meaning denoting a split between school leaders' behavior when leading and the leadership function of different subcultures. This paper explores this split; discusses transactions, encounters, and administrators' tacit knowledge when executing leadership; and illustrates school leadership's reciprocity and…

Explores how labor history has been written in books for young readers. Discusses 12 books that focus on the "monstrous working conditions, the miserable poverty of the workers, and the callous apathy of the bosses." Notes that these novels avoid any meaningful discussion of the inherent injustices of capitalism, class structure, and the belief in…

Employers like the problem-solving approach of technology education because it develops team building, discipline, content and process, knowledge of the capitalist system, and multidisciplinary skills. (JOW)

Analyzes mid-life professional women's experiences of growing older at work. Notes that women do not simply reproduce the decline narrative (experiencing and articulating growing older in terms of loss, isolation, and diminished material resources)--they also offer resistant stories. Highlights implications for theory and practice, and suggests…

Faced with a fast changing society, the need to develop quality instructional materials to update professional skills has become a growing necessity. This article shows how certain instructional design techniques, such as the "Scenistic" approach and the SNOW analysis, can ensure the educational and the broad technical quality of interactive…

Discussions of learning in practice and in workplaces have been carried out within the various theories of learning. More recent discussions have unveiled the complexity inherent in learning in workplaces by acknowledging the presence of power relations in practice. However, the discussions fall short of an analysis on another more paramount power…