Describes a career exploration program whereby the students participated in group discussions, read pertinent materials, interviewed adults, attended in-school conferences, and served as interns in local businesses. The program provided an opportunity for students to explore careers for up to three years and to participate in related activities.…

The vocational education program in middle schools should give early adolescents opportunities to explore careers and increase self-understanding. Interdisciplinary units presented cooperatively by academic and vocational teachers and a core curriculum that includes exploratory courses are ways to accomplish these goals. (SK)

Calls career and personal counseling inextricably intertwined. Notes that career problems have strong emotional component. Suggests interpreting career indecision and procrastination as zeteophobia, fear of career exploration. Contends that trait and factor theory pictures career counseling as unrealistically simplistic. Suggests training all…

Strategies used at Oberlin College to justify a budgetary increase for alumni programs are outlined, along with suggestions for budgetary planning. Alumni program coordination with other important programs--such as recruitment, career exploration, and attracting experts to campus--is suggested. (MSE)

A variety of alternative careers for physical education majors are outlined, including athletic clubs, health clubs, fitness clinics, sport resorts, gerontology, infant development, rehabilitation, and commercial, sports-related business. (JMF)

The barriers that prevent faculty from considering and testing career alternatives must be removed. The profession should provide a full program in career counseling, life planning, and preretirement assistance. The challenge is to redefine faculty careers for both the faculty interest and institutional welfare. (MSE)

Discusses, through a first-person narrative, the life of a reporter who began her career as a high school yearbook editor. Chronicles her attempts to find a college major before committing to a journalism degree from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. Concludes with her opinion that her path was painful, but that it was for the best. (PA)

Presents a biographical sketch of the author of the Fukuyama Profile, an instrument that uses self-analysis, job analysis, and occupational exploration to guide a career choice that leads to work satisfaction and self-fulfillment. (SK)

Describes a program that reaches out to displaced homemakers and gives them the support they need to enter nontraditional training and jobs. Discusses program content, funding, and enrollment; an introductory displaced homemaker class; recruitment methods; career exploration; support services; dropout prevention methods; job placement; and…

Describes content of the "Career Information in the Classroom: Workshop Guide for Infusing the Occupational Outlook Handbook." The "Guide" provides detailed information on conducting workshops that will increase a teacher's ability to make career exploration part of the curriculum. Highlights from each of its chapters are described. (CT)

Describes several techniques that can be used in implementing career education at secondary and postsecondary levels. (JOW)

Occupational home economics has been affected by several critical problems which hamper its integration with home economics education, including sex discrimination, devaluation of homemaking and "women's jobs," and marital parity. Educators should find new ways to encourage and nurture occupational home economics. (SK)

Most nursing assistant programs place emphasis primarily on the cognitive and psychomotor aspects of the student's education. The school must focus on career exploration to meet fully its responsibility for helping students prepare for work. (JOW)

Argues for intensive and ongoing career planning assistance for all age groups to ensure the development of people resources to meet Canada's economic needs. Points out the economic consequences of inadequate planning. (LKS)

Reports on some ways in which schools approach the task of teaching pupils about the nature of industry as part of their general understanding of society. Describes some of the methods which schools have adopted including work visits, work experience, and inviting industrialists into the classroom. (CT)