Developmental Program Goals for the Comprehensive Career Education Model. [with a Review.]

Overview & Synopsis

The Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) is a systematic effort to design and implement a new educational strategy that will ensure that students will be prepared either for immediate employment or continuing education upon leaving school. The CCEM seeks to restructure curriculum at all grade levels in terms of knowledge of career and human development. The model matrix developed is an operational tool providing means for defining, evaluating, and refining context, guidance activities, and other support services associated with career education based on authoritatively derived concepts regarding self, culture, and career. Four critical concepts inherent in the matrix are the eight elements of career education, the cumulative effort of sequencing learning experiences, the unifying of academic and vocational curriculum through career education, and the fragmentability of career education into manageable parts. Two conferences held in March and June 1973 by the Institute for Educational Development critically reviewed the developmental program goals from an intellectual and a utilitarian viewpoint. Their reports are given in the supplemental review. (MS)