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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McMaster University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-336). Also available via World Wide Web.

Published Article / In universities of technology there is much confusion regarding the concept cooperative education and related terminology. The aim of this article is to offer a conceptual alternative for cooperative education, based on findings from the literature, workshops conducted institutionally and nationally in universities of technology and supported by a PhD study conducted by the first author. The findings suggest an alternative approach towards the conceptual understanding of cooperative education and its associated components. In addition, the proposed conceptual framework provides a directive towards structural development and managing applicable learning types in a university of technology environment with regard to work-integrated learning and service learning.

D.Ed. / Colleges for Further Education and Training in South Africa, previously technical colleges, are important role players as service providers for education and training regarding the new learnership system implemented by the Department of Labour. The task of these colleges, regarding the new learnership system, is to present the theoretical components of approved learnerships as part of the learnership programme to learners. This training is done in co-operation with the workplace that in turn is responsible for the practical training. The Sector Education and Training Authority must approve all learnerships before it can be referred to the Department of Labour or presented in any way. Based on the above-mentioned facts, the researcher deemed it necessary to determine if Colleges for Further Education and Training are geared for the implementation of the new learnership system. This study focuses on the necessary capacity for the presentation of the learnerships and the available facilities of the colleges. This information has been collected by means of questionnaires sent to the colleges as respondents. The researcher also sent questionnaires to technikons, universities and industries in order to obtain the information for the specific sectors. With the gathering of this information, processed by the computer department of the Department Information Management, Division: Statistical Consultation Services (Statcon) of the Rand Afrikaans University, the focus has been primarily on the Colleges for Further Education and Training, technikons and universities, by comparing the processed information.

Although the present study identifies several shortcomings regarding the practice of co-operative education, it pioneers the notion that the growing of talent can be enhanced through a co-operative education strategy. The study has attempted to distil the core principles of a phenomenological research design within the greater context of qualitative research. Perspectives of the research subjects are presented as thick descriptions. The literature review indicates the need for the growing of talent in South Africa, against the backdrop of international talent struggles. It points out the need for collaboration between Higher Education and enterprises in growing talent. The study distils the core properties of co-operative education, contextualised within the dysfunctionality of Higher Education in South Africa and the development of Higher Education internationally. / Dr. W.J Schurink

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Por ser o cooperativismo um modelo de organização que promove desenvolvimento econômico e social, estudos de soluções que levem ao aumento de seu desempenho e a redução de seus problemas são cada vez mais importantes. Estas passam não só por melhorias na gestão e finanças das cooperativas, mas principalmente pelo incentivo à educação e a participação dos cooperados. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi observar a relação entre educação cooperativista, participação e satisfação dos sócios de uma cooperativa de forma a contribuir para a elaboração de propostas e medidas que promovam o aumento do desempenho da cooperativa. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo exploratório no qual foi desenvolvido um questionário próprio e lançou-se mão de um estudo de caso, escolhendo uma cooperativa do ramo agropecuário como objeto de análise. Os resultados apontam que apenas a escolaridade não garante a educação cooperativa, a qual, por sua vez, está relacionada com a participação de forma positiva. Também se constatou que a maior participação não está relacionada com a menor satisfação, como se esperava, e sim com o maior poder econômico. Tudo isso reforça a idéia de que se deve investir em ações específicas para a educação cooperativista como forma de aumentar a participação de todos, bem como o desempenho da cooperativa. Apesar de suas limitações, a pesquisa é ponto de partida para outros estudos nesta área além de contribuir para a construção de um modelo de análise. / Because cooperatives are a model of organization that promotes economic and social development, studies of solutions that increase its performance and reduce its problems are very important. Those solutions involve not only improvement in managing and financing areas, but mostly the participation and the cooperative education. Thus, the objective of this work was to observe the relation between cooperative education, participation, and satisfaction of the members of a cooperative, as a way to contribute for the creation of proposals and plans that improve the performance of the cooperatives. To achieve this aim, it was done an exploratory study, using a questionnaire in a case study of an agricultural cooperative. The results show that high level of formal education does not implies high level of cooperative education, which is related with participation in a positive way. It also turned out that the higher participation is not connected with lower satisfaction, as imagined, but with higher economic power. All this reinforce the idea that is necessary investments in cooperative education to improve participation and cooperative performance. Despite its limits, the research is a start to others in the same area and contributes to the development of an analysis model.

Series A, pt. l. Literary development of cooperative principles and data. 2d ed.--Series A, pt. 2. Abstracts of the laws pertaining to cooperation in the United States of America, its possessions and territories.--Series A, pt. 3. Bibliographical review of literature on legal phases of cooperation.--Series B. Studies in the field of cooperative medicine.--Series C, pt. 1. Cooperative dairying.--Series D. Cooperative education. Pt. 1. Bibliographical review of the literature on cooperative education.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Education, June 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1994. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).