Career Education in Public Education: Mission, Goals and Methods. Final Report.

Overview & Synopsis

The paper traces the progress of the Career Education Project, funded for a 12-month period in the spring of 1973, and designed to enable the chief State school officers and their respective State education agencies to have ready access to information about career education. It was intended that the project would review and make recommendations concerning: (1) concepts of career education, (2) identification of appropriate elements of career education, (3) development and adaptation of curriculum materials for career education, and (4) methods of State level organization and leadership of career education programs. A series of seven related reports, each dealing with a particular facet of career education was published as part of the project. Topics dealt with include: (1) Career Education: Alive and Well? (2) The Concept of Career Education; (3) Purposes and Goals of Career Education; (4) The Development and Utilization of Curriculum Materials for Career Education; (5) Models, Elements, and Characteristics of Career Education; (6) Career Education and the State Education Agency; and (7) Several Dimensions of Career Education. (MW)