Rapid changes in our industrial system require a large body of skilled workers who are able to carry out technical specifications and who can supervise less skilled members of the work force. This article discusses modern apprenticeship programs, certificates of completion, joint apprenticeship committees, basic standards for apprenticeship, and…

Discusses a study to determine (1) criteria used in industrial and vocational education programs for evaluating faculty for tenure and promotion, (2) ways those criteria are weighted in the process, and (3) perceptions of department heads regarding the congruence of written policies with actual practices. (JOW)

Industrial teacher education students and faculty were surveyed to determine the extent to which professionalism was being taught. The 111 student and 119 faculty respondents indicated that, despite considerable faculty involvement in professional activities, topics of writing skills, program evaluation, research, and institutional involvement…

Describes the creation of the National League for Industrial Education, the need for the league, its influence on agricultural legislation, and the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. (CT)

Argues that industrial teacher educators have moved away from the traditional commitment to long-term goals and increasingly rely on short-term extrinsic rewards without long-term vision and commitment. (CH)

This study sought to determine the attitudes that trade and industrial teachers hold toward the use of microcomputers. It also examined factors that might be associated with these attitudes. The majority of trade and industrial teachers favored the use of microcomputers in industrial education. In addition, significant differences appeared in…

Provides the teacher with a guide to an alternative approach for the study of production technology--the production cycle. This approach helps prepare students to live in an advancing technological society by presenting the concepts associated with the study of industry, such as mass production and production technology. (Editor)

The Latin American pattern of involving industry with government in organizing and financing the technical training of workers provides an interesting model for those concerned with the school-to-work transition problem in the U.S. (Author/JDS)

A study assessed aspects of ventilation in industrial education facilities in selected junior and senior highs schools in Alberta (Canada). This report describes the purpose of the study and the four test methods used to acquire school specific information. Also discussed are (1) the results of the instructors' perception survey, the ventilation…

Two carefully planned programs operating within traditional classroom frameworks, have been unusually successful. The first, developed in Stoughton, Massachusetts, a lower middle-class community in the Boston area, uses a field-based approach. The second, initiated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, an upper middle-class suburb of Philadelphia, employs a…

In Wisconsin, agricultural mechanics related to carpentry was chosen as the skill area around which to train Chippewa Indians on the Sand Lake Reservation in skills associated with home building and repair. The training was offered by Wisconsin Indianhead Technical Institute at New Richmond. (Author/DS)

During the 19th century, the Royal Institution changed from a middle-upper class society sponsoring working class adult education to one serving the needs of its predominantly middle class membership. Although increasing governmental participation in educational provision replaced Institution efforts throughout the century, the Society continued…

All career education projects have one central theme: to assist students to be aware of relevance of in-school courses to out-of-school, on-the-job work. (Editor)