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Security, Dignity, Caring Relationships, and Meaningful Work

Needs Motivating Participation in a Job-Training Program

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Cherrel Miller-Dyce

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

David Carlone

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Researchers asked 17 participants in a job-training program to describe their personal struggles following an economic restructuring. Examined through a critical theoretical lens, findings indicate that the learners enrolled in the program to reclaim security, dignity, meaningful work, and caring relationships. Program planners at community colleges are therefore urged to employ democratic program planning models, ask learners about their educational needs as they see them, and listen compassionately to their responses.

Key Words: job training • needs assessment • economic development • critical theory

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