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Hood, Mary Ann G., Ed.; Schieffer, Kevin J., Ed. – 1983
This book is designed to help foreign students from developing countries make the transition from academic training in the United States to a professional career in the home country. The process of professional integration includes both cultural reentry and professional dimensions of reentry. Attention is directed to specific skills and knowledge…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Graduates, Culture Conflict, Developing Nations
Washington West School District, VT. – 1977
This guide for inservice teacher education is designed for use by teacher groups in planning inservice. Short substantive narratives are followed by practical exercises to help teachers plans and develop inservice education, find resources, use outside assistance, and understand the potential functions of inservice education. The model presented…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Boards of Education, Educational Finance, Inservice Teacher Education
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Ottawa (Ontario). Occupational and Career Analysis and Development Branch. – 1981
Intended for vocational counselors who are either relatively new to their field or who need to become acquainted with newly developed tools in the field, this student manual is a resource book for a course on methods and materials of vocational counseling. The "Index to Canadian Occupations" and "Your Personal Occupation…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Exploration
Harris, Ilene B.; Fenderson, Douglas A. – 1982
A case study evaluation of the Bush Clinical Fellows Program, a fellowship program designed to enhance rural physicians' midcareer development and to improve rural health care delivery, is presented. Attention is also directed to the evaluation methodology and the implications of the evaluation approaches and the results. Two major evaluation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Critical Incidents Method, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods
Doersom, Barbara – 1980
A survey of 95 Pennsylvania institutions of higher education was undertaken in November 1979 to: (1) determine the current state of professional development activities, (2) discover the types of professional development resources that institutions could share, and (3) disclose the kinds of professional development services perceived to be most…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, College Faculty, Consultants
Fox, Robert D. – 1981
The action principles and concepts developed in the field of adult education may be generalized to include the practice of continuing medical education. A review of learning theory and research reveals that adult learning varies along four dimensions: (1) ability to accept new information and adopt new practices; (2) approach to learning; (3) ways…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Needs
Platte Technical Community Coll., Columbus, NE. – 1980
Prepared as part of Platte Technical Community College's project to help managers and supervisors develop practical, up-to-date managerial skills in a relatively short time, this instructional workbook provides information and exercises applicable to on-the-job situations encountered by independent business owner/managers. Unit I provides…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Business Administration, Community Colleges, Computers
Ashley, Kathy; Stewart, Tom – 1974
Attention focused on the recruitment and retention of Indian students, career mobility, continuing education, and unique aspects of nursing practice in tribal areas. Location of schools away from home environments, course requirements for which students have had inadequate preparation, feelings of isolation, and financial troubles tend to hamper…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Pezzullo, Diane, Comp. – 1978
This brief, divided into seven sections, focuses on community college staff development. The introductory section discusses the necessity of staff development and its purposes, the forms its activities take, and the components of effective programming. As indicated in the literature, effective programs should be holistic, reflect the goals of the…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Maxwell, Martha – 1980
A pilot-model for evaluating state-of-the-art short-courses for engineer practitioners was developed based on assessments of 10 Continuing Education in Engineering (CEE) courses offered by University Extension of the University of California, Berkeley. Instruments used in the study included student questionnaires, faculty interviews, follow-up…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Course Objectives, Databases, Engineering Education
LEONARD, ALVIN; PARLETTE, G. NICHOLAS – 1967
THE HISTORY (1960-66) OF THE CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM OF THE WESTERN BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION IS REVIEWED, TOGETHER WITH THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND THE FEDERAL SUPPORT THAT BROUGHT IT INTO BEING. OF PARTICULAR NOTE ARE THE SEMINARS AND COURSES DEVELOPED ON SUCH TOPICS AS CHRONIC DISEASE, HEALTH SERVICES…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Budgets, Educational Methods
1964
IN AN EFFORT TO STATE THE PROBLEMS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR THE MINISTRY, DESCRIBE ITS AIMS, DELINEATE AN ADEQUATE PROGRAM, DEFINE THE ROLES OF SPONSORS, EVALUATE THE CONCEPTS EMERGING FROM OTHER FIELDS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, AND ADVISE ON COORDINATION OF PROGRAMS, CONSULTATION SPEAKERS DISCUSSED THE TASK OF THE MINISTER IN THE CHANGING…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Church Responsibility, Clergy, Doctoral Programs
VERNER, COOLIE, ED. – 1964
PREPARED UNDER THE SPECIAL EDITORSHIP OF COOLIE VERNER, THIS JOURNAL ISSUE REVIEWS THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF ADULT EDUCATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FROM THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT, TRACES THE GROWTH OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DURING THE PERIOD 1915-63, DISCUSSES RECENT TRENDS AND ACTIVITIES IN VOCATIONAL AND NONVOCATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Enrollment Trends, Extension Education
Public Health Service (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1980
A summary of proceedings of the Forum on Arthritis Research and Education in Nursing and Allied Health is presented. The keynote address, "The Burden of Arthritis," by Dorothy P. Rice, provides data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics on the prevalence of arthritis, the burden it imposes, and the volume, type, and cost…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Bibliographies, Disease Incidence, Diseases
Johnson, Alton C.; And Others – 1977
Objectives of the project described in this report were to (1) determine the nature of changes occurring in the role of health care administration; (2) ascertain the causes of the roles; (3) develop recommendations for the initial and continuing education of health care administrators; and (4) note barriers to role implementation. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
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