Parents and School-Based Career Education. The Community and School Based Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

the document is part of a six-volume resource and planning guide for involving the community in career education. Specifically, the guide presents strategies, goals and resources for planning and implementing programs designed to involve parents in school-based career education programs. Parent involvement as a concept is an effort to insure that parents, regardless of their social or economic position, have the opportunity, the knowledge, and the available mechanisms to assist in the formal training of their children. Of particular concern in the paper is how this participation, influence or intervening effort can be used to best advantage to further career education. The guide, along with the five which accompany it, is designed to be of use to local and State educational agencies and university personnel who are responsible for planning various inservice education programs. The programs and materials can be used in both preservice and inservice activities related to the content area of career education. A comprehensive bibliography completes the document. (Author/NJ)