Report: National Conference on Cooperative Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The conference report on cooperative vocational education contains four main sections. The first, background papers, contains three papers: Education in a Changing Society, Carl H. Madden; A Prospectus for Cooperative Vocational Education, William F. Pierce; and Critical Issues in Cooperative Vocational Education, Robert M. Worthington. The second section, summaries of contributing presentations, summarizes the remarks of: John A. Pinkston, a business man; J. C. Turner, a labor leader; and Paul W. Briggs, Robert L. Bennett, and Edward C. Roberts, educators. The third section, group reports on cooperative vocational education, discusses seven issues: role expectations in career education, expansion of cooperative education in career/job preparatory curricula, relationship to apprenticeship training, liability considerations, participation of students under age 16, rural and urban considerations, and employer participation. The fourth section is an evaluation of the conference by John K. Coster. (JR)