Career Education and Minorities. Monographs on Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This monograph focuses on issues involved in delivering effective career education to minority persons. Section 1 reviews concerns and fears of minority leaders relating to career education as a concept and discusses the six career education missions of the U.S. Office of Education. Section 2 discusses the applicability of process and programmatic assumptions of career education to the needs of minorities. Section 3 analyzes reasons why minority leaders are concerned about career education. As the central part of the monograph, section 4 reports results of a study conducted on attitudes of minority leaders toward career education in 1976. The following topics are discussed: attitudes of minority leaders toward conceptual assumptions of career education; some examples of the growth of the career education concept; attitudes of minority leaders toward programmatic assumptions of career education; some successful career education programs for students with special needs; evaluative data on career education projects; and services of civic, social, and professional organizations to meet the needs of minority and low-income students. Section 5 details implications for career education and minorities in the following areas: minority children; unemployed minority adults and school dropouts; federal, regional, state, and local governmental agencies; business, industry, labor, and professional organizations; and the educational system. Specific implications for career education as it relates to minorities are outlined. Appendixes contain response data from the survey. (TA)