The demand for career education is real and it is strong, concludes the author, who encourages educators to debate the concept after reviewing its basic components, current status and implications. (Editor)

The current status of career education can be described at local, state, and national levels. Although 5,000 of the 17,000 school districts in the U.S. have initiated some kind of career education effort, fewer than 500 have received federal funds. The quantity of effort expended at the local school district level has exceeded the quality by a…

How to use the substance of the career education movement as a vehicle for promoting innovations within the community college and determining what kinds of proposed changes could profitably be implemented within the community college setting are two problems which the author hopes to solve by proposing five educational change goals. (BP)

Intended to chronicle the still-emerging concept of career education, this monograph contains 10 papers prepared during the 1979-80 academic year. In the first paper career education is discussed in terms of its role in developing employability/adaptability/promotability skills. The strong emphasis in 1979-80 on making career education a community…

The four papers compiled here deal with career education at the postsecondary education level. The first paper on career education and liberal arts in higher education discusses the goals of career education and higher education, liberal arts as a preparation for work, and career education as one change alternative currently available to higher…

This third in a series of monographs on refining the career education concept contains six occasional papers: (1) "Psychosclerosis and Career Education" identifies the kinds of attitudinal change career education seeks to accomplish toward infusion, collaboration, education, and American youth; (2) "Youth, Work, and Schooling"…

Career education is described as a concept designed to serve as a vehicle for educational reform in ways that will bring a more proper emphasis to "education as preparation for work" among basic goals of education at any level in the educational system. Several subconcepts of career education are discussed that seem to hold special relevance for…

Responsibilities of the formal education system in the collaborative effort among various parts of the Department of Labor, community based organizations, and the formal education system called for by the Youth Employment Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) of 1977 are addressed in this paper. Its basic thesis is that, as education discharges its…