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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: case study of students' perceptions of the Central Texas Manufacturing Consortium of basic skills development training program at McLennan Community College
  name:
    name part: Coronado, Ricardo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 153 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Community colleges have been challenged to take a leadership role in workforce development training programs in conjunction with employers and the government. Many of the community colleges' special population students enrolled in workforce development training programs are welfare-to-work mothers, ex-felons, reformed drug users, minorities, persons with disabilities, and others that are on the fringes of society. This study is framed around adult participation in workforce development training programs. The problem is that community college educators know little of why individuals enroll and participate in workforce development training programs and how these participants perceive, understand, and interpret workforce development training programs from their world perspective. This is a qualitative case study using in-depth interviews of 18 subjects who were enrolled in the training program. The major findings are: Participants demonstrated resiliency in overcoming major personal setbacks that adversely impacted their jobs, careers, and personal lives. Participants perceived themselves as needing a career or job change as a result of recent precipitating events that influenced them to enroll. Male participants overwhelmingly saw the training program as a means to an end, namely to get a job, while the female participants saw the training program both as a means to an end (to get a job) and as meeting their desire to learn, namely, their love of learning. Participants viewed the consortium members as desirable employers, stable companies providing permanent employment with good fringe benefits, and the program as providing a mutually beneficial connection between themselves and the companies. Female participants expressed doubts that some of the companies would hire them. Participants gave credit to the instructors' interactions with students, instructors' teaching styles, and support from other students for contributing to a supportive and positive learning environm…
  note: by Ricardo Coronado.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-145).
  subject:
    topic: Major educational human resource development
  identifier: 99-11694 UMI
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020128
    record change date: 20190325102930.0
    record identifier: in00001658741