Cooperative Occupational Education Including Internships, Apprenticeships, and Tech-prep
Cooperative Occupational Education Including Internships, Apprenticeships, and Tech-prep

Author: Ph.D.. Husted

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780131104129

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Widely used by Curriculum Directors and Administrators, this handbook/reference focuses on the everyday details of developing, organizing, operating, and managing the cooperative occupational education plan—with topics presented in a logical sequence of an educational planning-strategy-structure system. It shows how to apply the plan at the secondary level, adult workforce level, and post-secondary and collegiate levels, and to occupations in agriculture, business, family and consumer sciences, marketing, and trade and industry. Features complete forms (training agreements, student evaluation forms, training plans, etc.) for use in coordinating and managing cooperative educational programs in each area. Covers in detail the impact of current vocational legislation, legal aspects, evaluation, and accountability of cooperative education. Cooperative Education Models. Coordinators and Their Roles. Initiating the Plan. Coordinator Responsibilities at the Secondary Level, for Adult Workforce, at the Post-secondary and Collegiate Levels. Planning and Carrying Out Effective In-school Instruction. Developing Training Stations as Instructional Laboratories. Correlating Instruction Between School and Job Laboratories. Accountability Through Evaluation. Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Cooperative Education. The Plan in Agricultural, Business, Health, Family and Consumer Sciences, Marketing, and Trade and Industrial Occupations. For Curriculum Directors, Local Administrators, Teachers, and Consultants involved in cooperative vocational education.

Learning Through Practice
Learning Through Practice

Author: Stephen Billett

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-02

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9048139392

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Practice-based learning—the kind of education that comes from experiencing real work in real situations—has always been a prerequisite to qualification in professions such as medicine. However, there is growing interest in how practice-based models of learning can assist the initial preparation for and further development of skills for a wider range of occupations. Rather than being seen as a tool of first-time training, it is now viewed as a potentially important facet of professional development and life-long learning. This book provides perspectives on practice-based learning from a range of disciplines and fields of work. The collection here draws on a wide spectrum of perspectives to illustrate as well as to critically appraise approaches to practice-based learning. The book’s two sections first explore the conceptual foundations of learning through practice, and then provide detailed examples of its implementation. Long-standing practice-based approaches to learning have been used in many professions and trades. Indeed, admission to the trades and major professions (e.g. medicine, law, accountancy) can only be realised after completing extended periods of practice in authentic practice settings. However, the growing contemporary interest in using practice-based learning in more extensive contexts has arisen from concerns about the direct employability of graduates and the increasing focus on occupation-specific courses in both vocations and higher education. It is an especially urgent issue in an era of critical skill shortages, rapidly transforming work requirements and an aging workforce combined with a looming shortage of new workforce entrants. We must better understand how existing models of practice-based learning are enacted in order to identify how they can be applied to different kinds of employment and workplaces. The contributions to this volume explore ways in which learning through practice can be conceptualised, enacted, and appraised through an analysis of the traditions, purposes, and processes that support this learning—including curriculum models and pedagogic practices.

Cooperative Education in the United States. Bulletin, 1954
Cooperative Education in the United States. Bulletin, 1954

Author: Henry H. Armsby

Publisher:

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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This bulletin is essentially a revision of an earlier one--"A Survey of Cooperative Engineering Education," Bulletin 1949, No. 15, now out of print--by the same author, using some of the same content, but with new data and broadened coverage. It attempts to cover all cooperative education programs at the college and technical institute levels, rather than concentrating on engineering programs, as did the earlier bulletin. The bulletin presents an organized outline of the basic philosophy and objectives of this relatively new system of education, its administrative and operating problems, and the values resulting from its operation. Included is a discussion of the utilization of the cooperative plan by Federal agencies, a development to which the author has actively contributed. The author of this bulletin gathered material from numerous interviews with college, industrial, and governmental officials, from special memorandums and other unpublished materials, through visits to college campuses, and through correspondents with many interested people. This study indicates that when local conditions are propitious, the cooperative system affords a workable method of combining practical industrial experience with theoretical instruction in such a way that each reinforces the other. If the program is organized and administered with proper attention to educational values, with adequate supervision of students' employment as well as their academic work, and with the whole-hearted cooperation of the employers and the institution, it can result in important values to the student, to the institution, and to the employers served. This bulletin contains the following sections: (1) Nature and scope of the cooperative plan of education; (2) Origin and development of the cooperative plan; (3) Philosophy and objective of cooperative education; (4) Administrative and operating requirements; (5) Patterns of organization and administration; (6) Cooperative education for Federal agencies; (7) Values inherent in the cooperative plan; and (8) Summary and conclusions. (Contains 6 tables and 1 footnote.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships
Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships

Author: Patricia L. Linn

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003-10-17

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1135638144

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This Handbook is designed to help cooperative education and internship professionals and employers design, carry out, and disseminate quality research and evaluation studies of work-based education. It offers examples of current, leading-edge studies about work-based education, but with a practical twist: The chapter authors frame their studies within a specific key research design issue, including finding a starting point and a theoretical framework; fitting research into one's busy practitioner workload; deciding on particular data-gathering methods and an overall methodological approach; integrating qualitative and quantitative methodologies; and disseminating results. Also addressed are questions and concerns that are relevant throughout the course of a research project: the use of theory in research; the role and relationship of program assessment to research; and ethical considerations in research. By combining descriptions of exemplary research and evaluation studies with practical advice from top researchers in the field, this volume is a useful tool for educators and employers who are designing and carrying out their own studies, as well as a resource for what current research is discovering and affirming about the field itself. Educators from other fields, such as study abroad and service-learning will also find this book an indispensable reference in conducting research on experiential learning and teaching.