Guidelines on how placement should fit into the total school setting and in particular into career education as it becomes better established are discussed in this paper, one of a series on critical issues in vocational-technical education. The school counselor is viewed as the coordinator of the total career guidance, counseling, and placement…

At this symposium on career education and the school counselor, three researchers spoke about a project on which they have been working which involves field-testing and evaluating 61 career education units that are to be infused into the present public school curriculum, K-12. This project explores the implications of the school-based model as it…

Career guidance holds a significant place in secondary education today. Many of today's generation are no longer motivated by extrinsic rewards alone, consequently educators must harness a higher level of needs in order to work constructively with today's youth. There must be more maximizing of human potential, which is possible through career…

The paper traces the evolution of career guidance from 1909 to the present. The predominant views before 1950 were almost entirely nondevelopmental, but in response to questions raised at a series of major national conferences in the 1960's and the national impact of the career education concept, the 1970's have seen a flurry of writings and…

The first section of the guide contains the text of two speeches dealing with the current challenges of career education and the school counselor, presented at the 1972 New Jersey Regional Career Education Conferences. The second and larger section contains a variety of materials resulting from a series of conferences in 1973 aimed at developing…