Education Development Trust collaborated with the Ministry of Education Jordan, INJAZ and Education for Employment (EFE) to co-develop and pilot a whole-school careers education and guidance intervention in Jordan, called Future Ready. The pilot took place over 12 weeks (February to June 2022) with grade 9 students in Amman and Zarqa. The model…

Guided by national, state, and university initiatives to promote rural entrepreneurship, faculty in Iowa State University's College of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) were awarded funding from the Kauffman Foundation and Pappajohn Center to expand their work in entrepreneurship education. A series of multi-unit learning modules was developed…

This handbook provides a guide for elementary school teachers in developing a curriculum around five general concepts: there is dignity in all work; the life of a culture depends on its workers who produce goods and services; there are many different kinds of work; mankind uses tools for work; and work has rewards. Each section covers a different…

Junior high school industrial arts students learn in a program in which they select their area of learning, manage their activities, supervise themselves in procedures, and investigate career opportunities. (DS)

The EBCE task is to develop within three to five years a body of experience and research data that would document the feasibility of an entire alternative secondary education system, harnessed to the career education ideal and drawing its curriculum from the life of the adult community. (Authors)

Appendixes to the final report on the Yonkers and Syracuse, New York, career education projects are contained in this volume. Third party evaluation reports (Appendix D) comprise the entire document with the exception of six pages (containing Appendixes A, B, C, E, and F which provide brief information concerning related career education programs…

An interim program (a job search skills seminar for college students) is described which can facilitate the incorporation of career development courses into university curricula. (TA)

The authors describe the process by which curriculum guidelines were developed in a Federally funded State project; the guidelines set career education objectives appropriate for industrial arts courses, suggest learning activities, and identify resource materials. There are three sets--for elementary, junior high school, and secondary levels. (AJ)

We cannot afford to continue letting 2.5 million young people leave formal education each year without a marketable skill or a career goal. Career education will take time and money, talent and commitment. While the Federal government can provide seed money for innovation and reform, the real thrust and the real money to implement career education…

A model was developed for implementing career education into an existing curriculum and is composed of four essential elements based on a perceived need: needs assessment, participation facilitation, curriculum design and implementation process. Each element of the model is totally dependent on the completion of the components comprising each…

A discussion of a possible program of career education in the elementary and secondary grades by the Deputy Commissioner for Occupational and Adult Education in the Office of Education. (JM)

The 1-year project, Career Education in Rural Arizona (CERA), was designed to provide a broad career orientation and realistic exploratory experience for students in a rural farming area covering 1,500 to 2,000 square miles. The project used career education instructional units, available through various educational information centers, which were…

A major goal of education should be to prepare every young person leaving school to enter higher education or to enter useful and rewarding work. This is the goal of Project Trident, a comprehensive career education program being developed at Lincoln Community High School, Illinois. The project, in its planning year, is directed toward secondary…

The final report of the Bridgeport Career Education Project covers the period from August 1, 1971 to August 31, 1974. The project has as its major goal the development of a comprehensive career education and development program beginning at the elementary level and continuing through high school. The initial phase of the project centered on…

Prepared during the first year of a 3-year pilot program, this working draft of a resource guide represents efforts to develop and field test resource units for career education, Grades 1-6. The units, which include objectives and learning activities, are clustered as follows: (1) Distribution and Marketing, (2) Agriculture-Natural Resources, (3)…