Re: Definitions LO943 ...development, training, education

PeterVS1@aol.com
Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:11:23 -0400

Jack Hirschfeld asks in LO920 about:

>definitions of "development", "training" and "education" and
>how their meanings differ.

Generally, the term "training" means (to me at least) improving a set of
specific set of knowledges, skills or attitudes that will be applied to a
predetermined task or set of tasks. "Education", on the other hand, means
improving knowledges, skills or attitudes that might not be immediately
applied to any one specified task. Rather, education provides a broad
foundation upon which later training will build.

I would like to note that a firm I'm associated with has, after 10 years
of business, abandoned the use of the words "training" and "education"
from its description of what it does. For most of those 10 years, the firm
did training assessment, design, development and evaluation.

It does continue to that work, but has shifted to a broader perspective of
performance improvement. This change in perspective came about because the
traditional definitions of what training is was seriously handicapping
organizational performance improvement.

Regards,
Peter von Stackelberg
Applied Futures, Inc.

From: PeterVS1@aol.com