Refining the Career Education Concept: Part III. Monographs on Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This third in a series of monographs on refining the career education concept contains six occasional papers: (1) "Psychosclerosis and Career Education" identifies the kinds of attitudinal change career education seeks to accomplish toward infusion, collaboration, education, and American youth; (2) "Youth, Work, and Schooling" specifies the major contributions the education system can make to employability and discusses possible strategies for educational change; (3) "Applying the Concept of Collaboration to Education/Work Policy" discusses three key words (commitment, responsibility, and authority) and the implications they have for collaboration in education/work policy actions; (4) "Thoughts on EBCE and Career Education" presents a brief picture of the nature and current status of career education and four alternatives for consideration by those currently working in Experience-Based Career Education; (5) "YEDPA: Obligations and Opportunities for American Education" specifies obligations of the formal education system found in the Youth Employment Demonstration Projects Act of 1977, provides a list of youth needs to be met by the collaborative effort involving the education system, and identifies a series of opportunities for basic education change; and (6) "The Community Career Education Resource Center Concept" discusses the rationale behind the concept, the Center's nature and functions, and alternative approaches to establishing and operating this Center. (BM)