Cooperative Occupational Education.

Overview & Synopsis

Students enrolled in cooperative occupational education (COE) should achieve optimal development. To ensure this, instructors should use criteria from the psychology of education. They must strive to see that learning opportunities for COE students are meaningful; interesting; centered upon providing for individual differences; balanced among three categories of objectives--understandings, skills, and attitudes; and purposeful. Teaching should emphasize those appropriate psychologies that guide each COE student to attain as much as possible. These psychologies include behaviorism and humanism. Instructors should also select philosophies that provide for optimal student progress, such as problem solving, decision making, and predetermined COE curricula. (YLB)