Source:Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
(1996)
Using data collected from 254 participants, I examined the effectiveness of a career academy program. Previous research on adolescent school-to-work transition programs has measured effectiveness using academic outcomes such as grades, graduation rates, and high school credits earned. This study mea…
Source:International Journal of Educational Research
(1996)
Two factors have made behaviorally based task analysis training systems obsolete: (1) these systems cannot describe the complex knowledge required of European and North American workers by recent changes in the global economy, and (2) recent research in cognition shows that the cognitive processes a…
It is the thesis of this paper that the time has come for business schools to rethink the purpose of their establishment. They need to reflect upon the professional foundations of management education through rethinking a new philosophy of knowledge which is suitable for professional education and t…
The authors school-to-career approach that inseparable from a strategy for high school reform. They feel that this proposal, which is based on their research and experience assisting schools, can accomodate the rising ambitions of adolescents and can also carry the reform banner of contextual experi…
Source:International Journal of Educational Research
(1996)
Empirical studies have been conducted in four large enterprises: a communication industry, an automobile firm, a travel agency, and a regional bank. The main research focus was on the views of employees and superiors on the goals of corporate training, both personal goals and strategic managerial go…
The 62% of high school graduates who won't continue their education in a university this year are precisely the untapped resources the American economy needs, Ms. Packert avers. Apprenticeships offer a long-term solution to putting the economy back to work.
This paper deals with how ‘workplace culture’ and ‘workplace identities’ are (not) constructed in and through the Further Education (FE) curriculum. More specifically, it examines the ways in which two competing identities — one educational and the other, workplace — are negotiated by FE students an…
To understand the nature of learning in workplaces and how this learning might be improved, it is useful to view the activities that learners engage in as key units of curriculum. These learning experiences, which workers engage in as part of everyday work practice, should be conceptualised as goal-…
A theory of competitive advantage requires a theory of the development and utilization of productive resources. The empirical foundations for such a theory are the comparative experiences of the most successful economies. This paper presents comparative and historical evidence on the development exp…
