Career Education: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ... May 20, 1975 |
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activities adult American education Appropriateness of Task assumptions of career basic business-labor-industry community career development career education concept career education effort career education movement career education program career exploration career guidance career implications CARL PERKINS cation Chairman PERKINS Chamber of Commerce Committee Community College concept of career conference CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY counselors County curriculum educa education essentially educational system elementary school emphasis employers experience Federal field trips funds grade high school implementing career education individual industry inner-city involved labor legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS low-income youth Marland meaningful minority and low-income National Urban Coalition Office of Career opportunities paid employment parents participants percent personnel preparation Prince George's County problems public schools pupils QUIE Region XII responsibility role school systems SYDNOR Task Assignment tion tional voca vocational education Wayne County Wingspread world of paid year-round school Yes No Yes
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Page 3 - 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 97 - Career education is the total effort of public education and the community aimed at helping all individuals to become familiar with the values of a work-oriented society, to integrate these values into their personal value systems, and to implement these values in their lives in such a way that work becomes possible, meaningful and satisfying to each individual.
Page 157 - Further development and maintenance of the natural resources of the United States by the youth, upon whom will fall the ultimate responsibility for maintaining and managing these resources for the American people.
Page 12 - ... young and the old; the mentally handicapped and the intellectually gifted; the poor and the wealthy; males and females; students in elementary schools and in the graduate colleges. 7. The societal objectives of career education are to help all individuals: a) want to work; b) acquire the skills necessary for work in these times; and c) engage in work that is satisfying to the individual and beneficial to society. 8. The individualistic goals of career education are to make work: a) possible,...
Page 69 - ... and in the graduate colleges. 7. The societal objectives of career education are to help all individuals: (a) want to work; (b) acquire the skills necessary for work in these times; and (c) engage in work that is satisfying to the individual and beneficial to society. 8. The individualistic goals of career education are to make work: (a) possible; (b) meaningful; and (c) satisfying for each individual throughout his or her lifetime. 9. Protection of the individual's freedom to choose and assistance...
Page 137 - Work" is conscious effort, other than that involved in activities whose primary purpose is either coping or relaxation, aimed at producing benefits for oneself and/or for oneself and others.
Page 48 - Competent in the basic academic skills required for adaptability in our rapidly changing society. 2. Equipped with good work habits. 3. Capable of choosing and who have chosen a personally meaningful set of work values that foster in them a desire to work.
Page 60 - Career Education represents a response to a call for educational reform. This call has arisen from a variety of sources, each of which has voiced dissatisfaction with American education as It currently exists. Such sources include students, parents, the business-labor-industry-professional community, and the general public.
Page 20 - Creation of the year-round public school system that provides multiple points during any 12-month period in which a student will leave the educational system. 9. Major overhaul of teacher education programs and graduate programs in education aimed at incorporating the career education concepts, skills, and methodologies. 10. Substantial increases in the career guidance, counseling, placement, and followup functions as parts of American education. 11. Substantial increases in program and schedule...
Page 69 - Career education is for all persons — the young and the old; the mentally handicapped and the intellectually gifted; the poor and the wealthy; males and females; students in elementary schools and in the graduate colleges. 7. The societal objectives of career education are to help all individuals: a) want to work; b) acquire the skills necessary for work in these times; and c) engage in work that is satisfying to the individual and beneficial to society. 8. The individualistic goals of career education...