Career Education: Perspective and Promise.

Overview & Synopsis

Career education is a systematic attempt to increase the career options available to individuals and to facilitate more rational and valid career planning and preparation. Four alternative models of career education now exist: (1) comprehensive career education model (the school-based model, (2) the employer-based model, (3) the home-based model, and (4) the residential-based model. Written by national leaders in education, the papers in this report present various perspectives and dimensions of career education. Included are: (1) "Career Education Now," and "Career Education: More than a Name," by Sidney P. Marland, Jr., (2) "The Career Cluster Approach in Secondary Education," by Dale Parnell, (3) "Unifying an Entire System of Education Around a Career Development Theme," by Edwin L. Herr, (4) "Career Education," by Gordon I. Swanson, (5) "A Careers Curriculum," by Keith Goldhammer, (6) "Career Education," by Frank C. Pratzner, (7) "Career Development: An Integrated Curriculum Approach K-12," by Louise J. Keller, (8) "Career Education: Career Awareness (K-6), (9) "Careers Education Centered Group Guidance for Secondary Schools (7-12)," (10) "Career-Centered Curriculum for Vocational Complexes in Mississippi: An Exemplary Program," and (11) "A Universe Model of Occupational Education for Pikeville, Kentucky." Introductory and concluding analyses by the authors complete the collections. (BH)