Contributions include awareness of needs for linking today's educators to future options, for constantly assessing oneself for setting goals and making decisions, and for considering career education as a life long process. (MU)

Contends that emerging global economy has implications for both individual psychology and structure and choice of occupations. Examines growing need for personal flexibility as response to influence of advanced technology, new economic and political alliances, and sweeping social revolutions. Addresses central role of counselor in facilitating…

Considers importance of personal flexibility in global economy. Says that personal flexibility does not occur spontaneously but must be nurtured by schools and facilitated by counselors in education, work, and community settings. Discusses need for new models of career counseling, psychoeducational models, testing, possibilities for cross-national…

Outlines the history of the partnership between career guidance and vocational education. Discusses how the two can save resources by cooperating to serve mutual needs. Lists the outcomes of comprehensive career guidance and stipulations concerning career guidance in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. (CH)

The authors outline the purpose and scope of the Penn State Vocational Development Study, and discuss the value of such longitudinal research in understanding career-related behavior and improving vocational guidance. (SK)

Speech presented at the American Personnel and Guidance Association Convention, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-11, 1968.

Career education needs to stimulate educators to accept the fact that education can no longer confine its goals to the development of technical or academic skills. Increased efforts must be made in assisting students to grow in values, attitudes, and understandings, which permit them to make a career choice decision. (Author/BP)

Following a brief discussion of the social and historical context of career education, the author discusses perspectives and ingredients of the career decisionmaking process, the importance of employability skills, and the role of the cooperative work experience. (HD)

The article relates the results of an attempt to use cumulative junior high records to help high school students in their vocational decision-making. (HMV)

The purposes of this monograph are to: (1) examine the interrelationships of decision making and vocational development, (2) examine the current approaches to understanding decision-making, (3) identify the specific effects upon decision making and vocational development of different personal characteristics, and (4) suggest ways in which the…

Studied effects of secondary school characteristics on career behavior in young adults. Found significant differences in patterns of career development by curriculum but not by sex, in certainty by curriculum and sex, and in satisfaction by neither curriculum nor sex. Comments by Donald Super and authors' response included. (Author/RC)

Using both quantitative and qualitative research processes, identified and examined differences and similarities in career uncertainty and in levels of involvement in the career development process between declared and undeclared college students. Results suggest that declared students possess higher levels of certainty about their major and…

Addresses questions that need to be considered in future theoretical and research agendas about how extant career theories provide conceptual insights into the content and process of school-to-work transition. Questions include (a) "Why are career theories not developed to account for the school-to-work process?"; and (b) "Are the proposed career…

This book focuses on the plight of the academic middle of graduating high school students. These students have been led to believe that the only way to succeed is to attend a four-year college, even though they are unprepared for college work. As a result, half of the students who begin college fail to graduate, and even those who do graduate…