The New American Worker.

Autor/in	Cole, Paul F.
Titel	The New American Worker.
Quelle	(1989), (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Economic Development; Educational Improvement; Educational Needs; Elementary Secondary Education; Futures (of Society); Job Skills; Job Training; Labor Force Development; Labor Needs; School Business Relationship; School Restructuring; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Future; Society; Zukunft; Produktive Fertigkeit; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Arbeitskräftebestand; Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	U.S. industry and the U.S workplace are changing. More highly skilled jobs are replacing unskilled and semiskilled jobs, and more jobs require higher-order thinking skills. At the same time, the education system is failing to educate young people to fill those jobs in the future. Although a higher percentage of students graduate than ever before, the skills many of these students learn in school do not prepare them for higher-level thinking and problem solving. Added to the problem is that more students today, and increasingly in the future, come from single-parent homes, from minority groups, and from poverty-level settings. Vocational education could be helpful for some of these students, because vocational programs teach problem-solving and analytical skills and reinforce basic communication and interpersonal skills. Public education has historically responded to the needs of a changing U.S. economy and society. Tomorrow, the challenge will be very different. The very nature of work and the workplace will require a new set of skills and the schools must prepare all students to be successful in the new work environment. The new worker is really two people: (1) a worker with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to function as a member of a team with ever-changing technology in a flexible production environment; and (2) a student who functions in a flexible learning environment. The nation's corporations are learning this; the nation's schools must learn it too. (48 references) (KC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01