Fall 2002
1. Director's
Forum: ericacve.org: A Work in Progress
2. What's Hot in ACVE? Trends and Issues Compilation
3. Career Information for Parents
4. Trends and Issues
5. ERIC Staff at Fall Conferences
6. ERIC/ACVE Website Highlights
7. Get Your Document Selected for the ERIC Database
by Susan Imel
During the past year, the Clearinghouse website has undergone a number of changes, including redesign. Features added to the site include links to offsite full-text resources, the ability to search for material that has been processed by the Clearinghouse but has not yet been announced in the database, and a form for posing questions to be answered by one of the Clearinghouse information specialists. The site is updated regularly, and a click on “New and Noteworthy” gives visitors to the site information about what is new. The site receives a great deal of traffic. In 2001, for example, the site received over 6 million hits from approximately 211,000 visitors. In 2002, the number of visitors is up, with the site averaging over 23,000 visitors a month.
ERIC/ACVE staff members consider the website to be a work in progress and we are happy to receive suggestions and ideas about improving or changing it. I invite you to visit the site by clicking on http://ericacve.org, then send an e-mail message to me at imel.1@osu.edu responding to the following questions: What do you like best about the site? What changes or improvements can you suggest? If you are one of the first 10 people to respond, you will receive a complimentary copy of either a Clearinghouse major publication of your choice or a CD-ROM containing career information for parents. (The CD was produced as a special project by the Clearinghouse. See below.) As usual, I welcome your comments and suggestions about any aspect of the work of the Clearinghouse. Please feel free to contact me by e-mail, by phone—800/848-4815, ext. 28606, or by postal mail: Susan Imel, ERIC/ACVE, 1900 Kenny Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1090.
Each year ERIC/ACVE compiles a list of trends and issues. The list has a number of purposes including serving as a source for publication planning and as a means of keeping current on the areas served by the Clearinghouse. The process of compiling the list includes soliciting suggestions through a number of listservs, reviewing requests for information received by the Clearinghouse, and conducting a modified nominal group process. Early in August 2002, a message was sent to eight listservs asking for participants to respond to the question “What are the trends and issues in adult, career, and career and technical education?” Over 90 suggestions were received in response to this request and compiled into one document. The User Services Coordinator also assembled a list of the information requests received by the Clearinghouse.
During the Clearinghouse National Committee meeting on August 14, 2002, members of the National Committee were joined by local experts in adult, career, and career-technical education and work force development to develop a final list. The list of trends and issues nominated through the listservs and the list of information requests received by the Clearinghouse were used by these individuals as a part of a nominal group process that resulted in both the lists below as well as a longer list of topics from which the “Top Ten” were selected. [Note: Lists have more than 10 items due to ties.] The complete list of trends and issues generated on August 14, 2002 is available on the Clearinghouse website at http://ericacve.org/hottopics.asp.
ERIC/ACVE has produced a searchable CD that highlights career information in the ERIC database that parents can use to help their children with career issues. The CD contains full text of many of the items; for the others, information on their availability is provided, including hot links to those available on the Web. Users may search by title or keyword; or they can browse lists of authors, titles, and publication dates. The CD is available for a $5 shipping/handling charge from Publications Office, Center on Education and Training for Employment, 1900 Kenny Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1090.
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Civic education/education for democracy
• Social action learning
• Cultural dissonance/culturally relevant teaching
• Intercultural dialog in workplace and community
• Learning autobiography/learning career
• Intergenerational learning and civic renewal
• Typology of adult learners in the 21st century
• Tension between accountability and autonomy in adult
education
• Health literacy beyond adult basic education
• Younger adults in the adult education classroom
• Cohort effects in planning educational programs
• Community development through service learning
• Does professional development make a difference in
teacher behavior and learning gains?
• Holistic retirement planning
• Teacher preparation for religious education
• Learning from emotions
• Adult religious/spiritual development
• Popular education
• Appreciative inquiry
• Community asset mapping for program planning
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Career development issues for diverse populations (e.g., people
with disabilities, communication for getting the job done;
training human resource development practitioners who interview
different types of people, what can people in career development
do to address changes in our culture)
• The future of work: implications for career planning
for adults (entrepreneurship, older adults, midlife adults,
career development for older adults)
• Changing concepts of career development (educating
people in career planning for multiple careers; career laddering:
certificates earned/skills learned)
• Career planning and development for the whole human
being (elimination of the bias of vocational/career track
versus academic track; understanding the value of testing
tools as indicative of a holistic process; why the arts matter
in a technologically oriented society; creativity, happiness,
and balance in school, community, and on the job: )
• Career education models for out-of-school youth, e.g.,
in court system, already employed, unemployed
• Effects of economic uncertainty and globalization
on individual career motivation; what kind of positive possibilities
can come out of globalization?
• Youth participation in community decision making;
public services for youth, career development activity
• Scientifically based research in career education
• Psychological profiling of careers: what is the work
environment, risks, context in which work occurs, process
nature of the work in addition to substantive nature
• Are there models of career education? Do they work
better with specific groups of youth?
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Benefits/outcomes/accountability (value added): contribution
to academic achievement, economic development (return on investment);
performance indicators (academic, technical, “soft skills”);
practices/factors that influence performance; participation
in CTE organizations
• Professional development (recruitment, preservice/inservice,
retention)
• Teaching and learning: credentials/standards/certification;
remediation; curriculum; diverse learners
• Information seeking (materials, statistics, data)
• Leadership/management (crisis, perception, empowerment)
• Public policy (influencing it, legislation)
• Students (changing demographics, cultural diversity)
• Partnerships/collaboration (business, Department of
Labor, secondary-postsecondary)
• Research (measurement, “scientific” research,
methods)
• Future of CTE (empowerment, demographics, economy,
technology)
Cheryl Grossman presents "ERIC—Collaborating with You for Student Success" on Thursday, October 31, 2002 at the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) GOTEC 2002 conference at the Columbus Convention Center. The conference runs from October 29-31.
On Friday, November 22, 2002, Susan Imel will make a presentation, "Using Learning Technologies to Blaze Trails to Success," at the annual conference of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education in St. Louis, Missouri. The session will explore beliefs about learning technologies and suggest ways they can be used to support learning and respond to the needs of adult learners.
Judy Wagner and Cheryl Grossman will staff a booth at the 2002 Association for Career and Technical Education conference in Las Vegas, December 12-14. As always, we will have copies of many of our Digests, Trends and Issues Alerts, and other publications. Stop by and say hello!
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education selects and annotates links to high-quality websites from a variety of organizations. See http://ericacve.org/linkpol.asp for our policy on linking to a website. The following two sites are recent additions:
Enterprise Resource Database (ERD): http://www.enterprisefoundation.org/resources/ERD/default.asp. Produced by the Enterprise Foundation, ERD is a comprehensive, online collection of tools and resources that help community development practitioners in a wide range of efforts. Formerly known as the Best Practices Database, ERD provides more than 1,000 items offering practical, step-by-step, “how-to” information and techniques.” The database covers issues such as work force development, community building, housing, finance, community safety, planning and development, child care, and management and organizational development.
EdResearch: http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/sample/edresearch.htm. EdResearch is a freely searchable web database provided through the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). It includes over 12,000 records from the Australian Education Index, covering all educational sectors; more than 8,500 documents are available on the Web for free with the remainder available for a copyright fee.
Back to TopWe accept adult, career, and vocational education materials in a variety of electronic formats (MS Word, WordPerfect, HTML, and PDF) and, of course, paper copy. To submit materials produced in the past two years, please send the electronic copy by e-mail or send the document’s URL to chambers.2@osu.edu. Floppy disks, CD-ROMs and paper copies may be mailed to: Acquisitions Coordinator, ERIC/ACVE, 1900 Kenny Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1090. If you send materials electronically, please send the ERIC reproduction release form by mail or by fax to 614/292-1260. If you send materials by mail, please include the release form in the package. The release form can be obtained from our website at http://ericacve.org/repro.asp, by calling 800/848-4815, ext. 26991, or by sending e-mail to chambers.2@osu.edu. If you have any questions, please contact us.
This project has been funded at least in part with Federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education under Contract No. ED-99-CO-0013. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.