As technology continues to increase the complexity of our occupational society and relationships between education and work become closer and closer, it becomes necessary to create for youth a world in which educational institutions and the business/industrial community collaborate to provide an environment, a set of learning experiences, and a…

Examines the implications of career education against the goals of making work possible, meaningful, and satisfying. (Editor)

How to use the substance of the career education movement as a vehicle for promoting innovations within the community college and determining what kinds of proposed changes could profitably be implemented within the community college setting are two problems which the author hopes to solve by proposing five educational change goals. (BP)

The author assesses the career education movement during the 1970s by first reviewing financial support for career education during that decade and then by summarizing the evidence of success in attaining career education goals. Based on this assessment, the author predicts that career education will continue to flourish during the 1980s only if…

Discusses relationship or effects of high technology on rate of occupational change, availability of jobs, education required for jobs, and growth or decline in middle income class. Contends major challenge to career guidance is to help clients retain basic commitment to work as an important part of their personal values. (ABL)

The demand for career education is real and it is strong, concludes the author, who encourages educators to debate the concept after reviewing its basic components, current status and implications. (Editor)

This article specifies general activities in which counselors should engage. Each function is stated in the form of goals which should be attainable to some extent in any vocational education setting. It is hoped that both counselors and vocational educators will be in a better position to evaluate effectiveness of guidance in vocational technical…

The author discusses the major changes career education calls for in the teaching/learning process and the teacher's role in effecting such changes. Topics discussed are a classroom rationale, subject matter as a motivational device, implications of expanding teaching/learning process parameters, and career education as a philosophy of teaching.…

The author seeks to broaden the definition of "work" and applies that definition to career education. Suggestions are made about ways career education can be applied in schools and how those applications should change the role of the counselor. Presented at All Ohio School Counselors Association, Columbus, September 1974. (EJT)

This monograph summarizes the results of two mini-conference discussions on the general topic, evaluation of career education. It addresses three major points: (1) Problems involved in evaluation of career education, i.e., instrumentation, expectation, concept implementation, and perceived personal benefit, (2) examples of evaluation approaches…

When the American Vocational Association changed its name to the Association for Career and Technical Education, it underscored the need for today's vocational educators to focus on both career education and technical education. The name change reflects the fact that today's work environment, labor market, and employment opportunities are very…

Career education and work experience education are discussed in terms of the common goal of education as preparation for work, and three basic common values: (1) The importance of work to both individuals in society and to society itself, (2) the need for and potential of experiential learning, and (3) the need to involve the formal education…

The four papers compiled here deal with career education at the postsecondary education level. The first paper on career education and liberal arts in higher education discusses the goals of career education and higher education, liberal arts as a preparation for work, and career education as one change alternative currently available to higher…

The director of the Office of Career Education, U. S. Office of Education, identifies and "corrects" what he considers to be conceptual errors about career education found in an article by Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson in the "Harvard Educational Review" (1975, Volume 45, Number 4, pages 451-474). Major errors are…

The three papers compiled here provide educators and others involved in career education with some information regarding the relationship of career education and organized labor. The first paper, a conference speech by Peter A. Bommarito, President of the United Rubber Workers, presents an official policy statement on career education from the…