A Summary of Commissioned Papers Prepared for the National Advisory Council for Career Education |
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academic achievement Administration Amendments of 1974 American education appendix for names attitudes toward career career awareness career decision-making career development Career Education Activities career education concepts career education coordinators Career Education Legislation career education programs career education projects Career Exploration Outcomes COMMISSIONED PAPERS PREPARED comparison group concept of career Conference on Career control group COUNCIL FOR CAREER Council of Chief counselors DESIGN AND INSTRUMENTATION Education Amendments Education Career Education Education National effectiveness EFFICACY OF CAREER given to project Hartle high school implementation of career legislation for Career legislation prepared list of respondents mentation National Advisory Council occupational Office of Career Office of Education Ohio personnel positive prepared or drafted project students projects and cities related to career relationships reported respondents in appendix RESULTS ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES school districts students in grades studies SUMMARY OF COMMISSIONED t-test Terry W Test given U.S. Office ucation UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Vocational Education Act
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Page 5 - Career education" is the totality of experiences through which one learns about and prepares to engage in work as part of her or his way of living.
Page 3 - ... 2. Too many students fail to see meaningful relationships between what they are being asked to learn in school and what they will do when they leave the educational system. This is true of both those who remain to graduate and those who drop out of the educational system.
Page 5 - ... to foster flexibility in attitudes, skills, and knowledge in order to enable persons to cope with accelerating change and obsolescence...
Page 3 - ... 4. American education has not kept pace with the rapidity of change in the postindustrial occupational society. As a result, when worker qualifications are compared with job requirements, we find overeducated and undereducated workers are present in large numbers. Both the boredom of the overeducated worker and the frustration of the undereducated worker have contributed to the growing presence of worker alienation in the total occupational society.
Page 4 - ... system. 3. American education, as currently structured, best meets the educational needs of that minority of persons who will someday become college graduates. It fails to place equal emphasis on meeting the educational needs of that vast majority of students who will never be college graduates . 4. American education has not kept pace with the rapidity of change in the postindustrial occupational society. As a result, when worker qualifications are compared with job requirements, we find overeducated...
Page 4 - ... career decision-making skills, or the work attitudes that are essential for making a successful transition from school to work. 6. The growing need for and presence of women in the work force has not been reflected adequately in either the educational or the career options typically pic.tured for girls enrolled in our educational system. 7. The growing needs for continuing and recurrent education of adults are not being met adequately by our current systems of public education.
Page 4 - Both the boredom of the over-educated worker and the frustration of the under-educated worker have contributed to the growing presence of worker alienation in the total occupational society. 5. Too many persons leave our educational system at both the secondary and collegiate levels unequipped with the / vocational skills, the self-understanding and career * decision-making skills, or the work attitudes that are essential for making a successful transition from school to work. 6. The growing need...
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Page 3 - American education, as currently structured, best meets the educational needs of that minority of persons who will someday become college graduates. It has not given equal emphasis to meeting the educational needs of that vast majority of students who will never be college graduates. 4. American education has not kept place with the rapidity of change in the post-industrial occupational society.