Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Citizen Schools, Cooperative education, Externship, Inroads (organization), InternMatch, Internship, Internships.com, Interns Anonymous, Intern Aware, Intern Development Program, Judicial intern, Match rate, Mentorship, National Apprenticeship Act, National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, Practice-based professional learning, Registered Apprenticeship, School-to-work transition, University of Dreams, Virtual internship, Virtual Student Foreign Service, Work college, Young People's Learning Agency. Excerpt: A co-op is a group of people/individuals/groups that is working together to achieve the same goal, usually based on the principles of equality and active participation in decision-making. Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a co-op, provides academic credit for structured job experience. Cooperative education is taking on new importance in helping young people to make the school-to-work transition, service learning, and experiential learning initiatives. Co-operative Education is also the use of active participation methods in which students learn how to work together to solve problems, this is normally founded on the principles of children's rights, equality, equity and participation in decision-making. Its methods include game playing, expressing opinions, democratic participation, sharing, ensuring students all have an equal opportunity to take part, and conflict resolution. In Great Britain at the beginning of the 19th century co-operative living and learning were promoted by the successful cotton industrialist, Robert Owen. In 1817 he founded a school in his cotton mill community of New Lanark in Scotland. This was based on the principles of co-operation, that children should be at school and not labouring in the mills, that the rules of the playground should be to be happy and help others to be happy. He employed adults who loved children, not teachers, and saw children as naturally inquisitive. He saw geography and comparative religion as ways that children might learn that who they were to become was defined by the culture and religion they were brought-up in. He believed that we could create co-operative based communities through learning and reason. His work was so important that New Lanark is a UNESCO heritage site, and at the time people from around the world would visit it to see how it worked. While at Lehigh Universit