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For the first time, a user-friendly handbook has been written on America's workplace literacy gap. Work Force Education has become the quintessential human resource issue of the 1990's. Its impact is now felt by more than 80 million adults, and carries an annual $300 billion price tag in lost employee productivity. This unique book offers readers a complete review of past, present, and future adult literacy programs. It provides essential context on how this training/educational issue suddenly appeared. Also considered are how current programs consistently fail to close an ever-widening workplace education gap. The book does not talk around potential solutions. Instead, it gives practical, real-life case study examples, from successful on-site company programs conducted by the authors. A blueprint is outlined on how to offer Work Force Education for any business large or small. This book will provide insights to senior executives, human resource/training and development managers, or adult educators. They will obtain a clear understanding of how to organize a multi-level, cost-justified Work Force Education program that meets America's 21st century international productivity requirements.
Sommario
Preface
The Broken Cog in the American Economic Machine
Adult Literacy: Past-Present-Future
A Variety of Answers
Adults Learning In a Work Force Education Environment
Individualized Instructional Programs (IIP) For Work Force Education
Case Studies I: Hourly Workers
Case Studies II: Management Employees
Establishing A Corporate Work Force Education Policy
International Focus On Work Force Education
Work Force Education In The Twenty-First Century
A Game Plan For Work Force Education
Appendix 1: Guidelines For Education Software Selection
Appendix 2: Adult Software Publishers/Distributors
Appendix 3: The IIP Literacy Training Program Results of Formative Evaluation Research
Appendix 4: Reading-Grade Equivalent Basic Skills
Selected Bibliography
Index
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RONALD R. MORGAN is an expert in the psychology of learning and instruction. He serves as the director of the educational and school psychology programs of study at Loyola University of Chicago.
JUDITH A. PONTICELL is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University./e Her research focuses on adult learning, school effectiveness, and establishing educational partnerships in the workplace.
EDWARD E. GORDON is President of Imperial Corporate Training and Development and teaches at Loyola University in Chicago. Together they have co-authored
Futurework: The Revolution Reshaping American Business (Praeger, 1994) and
Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business (Quorum Books, 1991).
