Youths must be equipped with a set of general employability skills and attitudes that will provide them with maximum flexibility and adaptability throughout their adult working lives. The entire system of education holds great potential for making significant positive contributions to this effort. (Author)

The volume gathers together in one source a collection of Kenneth Hoyt's published and unpublished speeches, articles, and papers which trace the development of Hoyt's ideas on career education. Following an introductory section, Part 2 deals with stages in the development of career education concepts: defining career education, career choice,…

This monograph is one in a series designed to report, in narrative form, discussions that took place during a series of mini-conferences for local K-12 career education coordinators on the subject of staff development in career education. The monograph covers two broad concerns: the substance of staff development in career education; and how staff…

Discusses five key concepts of career-education movement and their implications for education reform: Work, students and teachers as workers, infusion, collaboration, and career development. Also discusses studies evaluating the effectiveness of career-education programs. (PKP)

The two areas of expertise involved in career education--education and work--make it obvious that career education cannot be effective if only educators are involved. That is why, from the beginning, career education has been pictured as a collaborative effort involving educators, the business-labor-industry community, and the home and family…

The paper explains the career education concept and considers its application to gifted and talented students. (CL)

Addresses these questions: (1) how has the National Vocational Guidance Association/National Career Development Association (NVGA/NCDA) implemented commitments for extending equity in career development planning and services to all individuals; (2) how do biases exist as major obstacles to equity in career development; and (3) what should be…

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…

Career education, as it currently exists, is put in perspective with reference to broader and more far-reaching proposals for dealing with the education/work dilemma in the United States. In so doing, career education is pictured as a movement that operates under a "possible change" philosophy. Current strengths of career education are…

This monograph, summarizing the ideas of participants attending a two-day mini-conference, provides educators with information on the relationship between the National Alliance of Business (NAB) and career education. This booklet begins with a section presenting background information on NAB and several standard NAB youth programs. The next…

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 document attempts to draw attention to the kinds of baseline data required for drawing conclusions regarding the changing workplace, to illustrate use of key Department of Labor (DOL) documents in searching for answers to some changing workplace questions, and to correct some common myths regarding education/work relationships predicted to…

Discusses a survey of the members of the National Career Leaders Communication Network regarding the "health" of career education in their communities. Includes opinions on the term "career education" and their definition of career education. (JOW)

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)