The Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School at Johnson & Wales University (J&W), located in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Berufsakademie, University of Cooperative Education (BA), located in Ravensburg, Germany, have established an exchange program in which faculty from each institution travel abroad for brief guest teaching visits. In April…

This review of the literature is divided into two parts--relevant and highly relevant documents. Abstracts of 90 relevant and 44 highly relevant studies are included. Applied Management Sciences' staff members were responsible for the preliminary identification, collection, and categorization of the literature. Most of the abstracts in the highly…

Engineering students in North American universities often participate in cooperative education placements in workplaces as part of the requirements for their degrees and professional certification. Students for whom English is an L2 often experience difficulties in these placements due to the fact that while their academic language ability may be…

Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how science and engineering graduates can be recruited and trained to Masters level in precision engineering as an aid to reducing the skills shortage of mechanical engineers in UK industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes a partnership between three UK academic institutions and industry,…

Brief summary of an interministerial policy memorandum. (RT)

Provides an overview of the rationale for the marketing of cooperative education in postsecondary institutions and outlines a six-step procedure for the successful implementation of a marketing program. (JOW)

While numerous publications signal the merits of collaborative research, few studies provide interpretive analyses of collaborative-research practices or collaborative relationships. Through this multiple case study design of collaborative-research teams, the authors attempt to provide such an analysis by focusing on the collaborative-research…

Discusses the Cooperative Education Association from its beginning in 1963 to the present. Includes information on founders, early meetings, changes, and mission and goals. (JOW)

The partnership between the employer and the school is a vital one in distributive education. (MS)

The article, first of four-part series, defines cooperative vocational education. Common terms are defined, advantages of the cooperative method are listed, and seven types of cooperative vocational education are differentiated. (AG)

Cooperative education programs prepared students for the world of work by instilling in them an understanding of the importance of each member of a work team to the work in process. In addition, such programs supply their members with basic job skills. (CK)

Basing cooperative education in a behaviorist view of learning fails to link curriculum, work experience, and learners. A better approach is Gardner's concept of cognitive apprenticeship: structured experiential learning that recognizes multiple intelligences and is based on the psychology of learning. (SK)