Problem areas encountered in developing career education at the university level are discussed: (1) classroom-work relationship, (2) work values, (3) transferable academic skills, (4) critical career skills, (5) career self-concept, and (6) accurate career information. (EC)

Article described an experiment in education which set out to find how much more effective a career officer might be and to assess whether the mutual needs of career officers and career teachers would be better served in this way. (Author/RK)

Designing a workable marketing plan for career education programs requires needs assessment, goal setting, formulation of strategies, implementation, and evaluation. (SK)

Stresses that departments of psychology in colleges and universities should supplement existing curricula with a human service psychology emphasis. Explains why and how this should be done. (DB)

This study utilized the Delphi Technique to collect and synthesize the perceptions and experiential insight of persons involved in the early career education effort. Its specific objectives were to identify possible future efforts in career education and assign priorities to them according to their significance and to identify the level of…

This document contains excerpts from two larger studies illustrating how two communities have approached problems of bias and neglect in the occupational education area. The first series of excerpts come from a curriculum study conducted in an affluent suburb where a high motivation for college preparatory work exists but not for occupational…

The article delineates an approach to teaching agriculture in the elementary grades: the extensive development of materials, lesson guides, and teaching aids which elementary teachers could use in their instructional programs, while local agriculture teachers could serve as consultants. (AJ)

Career development programs for gifted and talented students must address the issues of multipotentiality, expectations, lifestyle, financial and time investment, mobility, and innovativeness. Seven essential components of career development include content acceleration, self-awareness, self-concept, interpersonal effectiveness, creative problem…

This report outlines the purpose, implementation, and results of a project designed to define the role of industrial arts in career education. Throughout the course of the project the major objectives were to develop a working definition of career education, identify the role of industrial arts in career education, foster implementation of…

Social studies teachers can help students develop self- and career awareness by infusing career education into the social studies curriculum. The infusion method of career education is preferred since it can make the content of lessons more relevant for students. In addition, infusion of career education is particularly appropriate in social…

This manual, along with the four others making up the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project (IOCP) materials, has been prepared by local vocational administrators and teachers to assist in planning and evaluating occupational, technical, and career education courses and programs. Designed to help teachers and administrators effectively use the…