Notes increase in popularity of work-based learning and youth apprenticeship. Contends that counselors in educational settings are being downplayed and job mentors are being played up by leaders in youth apprenticeship movement. Encourages counselors to become actively involved in counseling persons regarding variety of forms of postsecondary…

These remarks by the Director, Office of Career Education (OE) suggest the need for career education to operate as a concept, career guidance to operate as a service, and vocational education to operate as a program. This paper defines these three areas and elaborates on how counselors can make them best function, in a complementary way, for the…

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…

A four-year college degree is not right for all students. This article examines some other options for post-secondary education for school counselors to share with their students, and discusses how to communicate to parents the benefits of some of these alternatives. (GCP)

Discusses the relationship between career guidance and career education, both similarities and differences, and then examines the counselor's role as a career education coordinator. Presented at APGA Convention, N.Y., N.Y., March 1975. (HMV)

A neglected minority of our youth, those contemplating entry into the labor market at the end of secondary school, need an improved program to equip them to meet this labor market adequately. The role of guidance in the career development of junior and senior high youth includes: (1) helping the student to see himself as worthy, (2) helping…

Discusses how the Knowledge-Information-Service Era is reflecting exponential changes in social, economic, government, career, education, work, and other life systems. Argues that changes in work and workplace present a challenge to education to provide concentrated attention to career development, and that school counselors have a changing role…

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)

The author contends that in the past counselors have put an undue emphasis on describing students by their characteristics with a relative lack of emphasis on understanding them through their behavioral accomplishments. Career education challenges all counselors to correct this imbalance because it is action-centered and experience-oriented. The…

Schools preparing counselors must recogniz e the need for various types of guidance personnel, including paraprofessionals and support persons with less academic preparation and more occupational experience than today's professional counselor. Guidance needs of more students than the gifted must be met, with concrete help and direction in solving…

This address by the Director, Office of Career Education (OE) discusses the relationships between career guidance and career education. In particular, it examines the questions concerning: (1) differences in meaning between the terms "career guidance" and "career education," (2) whether counselors should seek to become "career education…

This paper presents the basic nature of the career education effort as currently viewed by USOE's Office of Career Education. The "career education treatment" is defined through role descriptions of several "actor" groups. Nine student outcomes are posited. Part of a theme issue on career education evaluation. (Author/SJL)