This monograph summarizes the thoughts, opinions, and experiences of the participants in the first three seminars of a series of thirty-three sponsored by USOE's Office of Career Education on the subject of collaboration in career education for grades K-12. After an explanation of the term "collaboration" in the introduction, the expected learner…

The role and function of K-12 classroom teachers in career education and the evolving concept of career education are described in this monograph through reporting the thoughts and actions of 49 teacher participants in four career education miniconferences. The contents of this report are organized around six topics: (1) Career education and…