Explores the characteristics and attitudes of faculty participating in college learning communities, what faculty value about the experience, opportunities for intellectual inquiry offered by the models, issues encountered in teaching in this context, and implications for the future of faculty work. (MSE)

Looks at how the job market is changing and how workers are looking at their career paths. Includes information on where the jobs and dollars are, how the work force is changing, how and where people are working, new age jobs, women in the work force, and the need for keeping up to date with new technologies. (JOW)

Describes a model for providing individualized and comprehensive support for beginning special educators in the face of acute personnel shortages. Describes the interacting factors in the model specific to the individual teacher and to the teaching environment and tasks. Provides recommendations for implementation of the beginning-teacher support…

A study used job-trainer logs and two rating scales to investigate social problems encountered by 43 supported employees with mental retardation. Logs indicated 58% experienced one or more incidents of interpersonal difficulty during their employment tenure and 40% of the problems could be described as sexuality-related. (Author/CR)

Reviews and synthesizes a number of motivational models, issues, and strategies, showing their interrelationship, relevance to higher education, and strongly similar conceptual themes and terminology. The models' consistency suggests that inclusion in a coherent community raises awareness and enhances positive attitudes; what emerges is a…

A study focused on the attitudes of Dutch dairy and horticultural workers regarding the need for training in the workplace. Results emphasize the importance of learning on the job but suggest that workers need to be made aware of the value of investment in other kinds of training. (JOW)

Describes a unique, employer-based infant care program that allows parents to care for their babies in the workplace, and reports on the response of coworkers to this arrangement. Results indicate that parenting babies in the workplace has little, if any, perceived negative effect on the work life of other employees. (Author/GCP)

Although most principals and superintendents must be awarded annual or multiyear employment contracts by their school districts, such contracts offer little protection from reassignment to a lesser position or even from dismissal. Inadequate remedies for breach of employment contracts subject school administrators to working solely at their…

Argues that there is no longer a linear relationship between learning and earning and that there should be more flexibility in combining work with education as a way to encourage continual learning throughout one's life. States that the acquisition of a skill or trade should not preclude future participation in a university education. (AMA)

Presents survey data based on 2,104 responses (9%) from Training Magazine subscribers. Special section includes "Training Budgets,""Where the Training Dollars Go,""Information-Technology Training," and "Training by Computer." (JOW)

Explains individual and institutional code and style choices as locally motivated pragmatic selections within the specific contexts of the workplace settings and the larger Malaysian sociolinguistics context of English as the normative choice of Malaysian business and Malay as the lingua franca. (Author/VWL)

Examines the personal distress that interventionists must face when their work requires immersion in a foreign culture. Addresses the issue of burnout and recommends that program development be holistic to meet the needs of the intervention team members.(Author/VWL)

Hiring increasing numbers of paraeducators can provide additional learning support and a linguistic/cultural link to the community. However, such personnel may have frenetic schedules, responsibilities divided among several schools, and inadequate supervision and communication links. Recommendations for principals, teachers, and bilingual…

As the Internet (with pluses and minuses) creeps forward, many work environments, business practices, and consumer processes will change significantly. Manufacturing, electronic commerce, health care, education, environmental monitoring, libraries, and government services will be profoundly affected. Fully implementing the Internet will take…

This study with 64 deaf employees working in either signing work groups or nonsigning workgroups found that employees' perceived empowerment was significantly higher in the signing work groups. Deaf associates in signing work groups experienced greater psychological stress and role conflicts, whereas deaf associates in nonsigning groups…