Business Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. National Business Education Yearbook, No. 14.

Overview & Synopsis

A reference for use by preservice and inservice teachers, the fourteenth volume of the National Business Education Yearbook provides an historical view of the development of business education, deals with current issues in the field, and attempts to predict the future for business education. Part 1, "Yesterday," a flashback into the history of business education, traces the historical development of: accounting and data processing, economic emphasis in business education, distributive education, office education, shorthand, typewriting, and business communications. Part 2, "Today," presents selected key issues which currently challenge business educators in: accounting, data processing, cooperative vocational education, distributive education, consumer education, basic business, business law, business mathematics, office procedures, shorthand, typewriting, business communications, and career education. Part 3, "Tomorrow," which highlights some of the future educational concerns, contains three chapters: "Kettering Report: A Challenge to Business Educators,""Economic Literacy," and "Education for Employment." A bibliography is included at the end of each chapter in Part 1. (EA)