The book is designed to help elementary school teachers and administrators understand precepts underlying career education and to give concrete guides for including career education concepts in the daily classroom experience. The first chapter provides background information on career education, its basic premise, promises, and problems; the second relates elementary school objectives to career education, comparing routes to academic learning through career awareness to the traditional approach, and outlines a career awareness experience for kindergarten and each of the first six grades. Chapter Three relates career development to human development; Chapter Four offers methodology for linking school, community, and labor market in dozens of concrete examples. Parental attitudes and involvement are discussed in the fifth chapter, as well as the home and family component of the educational program. Approaches to preservice and in-service teacher training are surveyed and commented on in Chapter Six, and formats are offered for planning and evaluating inservice programs. The final chapter addresses teacher concerns about career education and suggests strategies for extending endorsements of the concept. Each chapter is followed by suggestions for further reading. (AJ)