Kenneth B. Hoyt passed away on August 27, 2008. He leaves a comprehensive legacy of insights and initiatives about the relationship of education and work, the importance of career development as a mission of schools, and the role of school counselors in these important processes. This article reviews Dr. Hoyt's 50-year-long body of work.

The editor of this special issue on administration of career education points out the importance of the administrative role and describes the articles and contributors. (MF)

Career education must include systematic efforts in curriculum planning, guidances activities, work study programs and other experiences; all of these designed to develop choice-making, planning, and employability skills in all students. Such an educational intent requires collaboration among teachers, administrators, parents, the community, and…

Traces the history of the meaning and content of education as preparation for work in the United States. States that education as preparation for work is a major goal and discusses how to achieve it. Considers the contributions of both career and vocational education. (CH)

Describes Britain's use of work shadowing, in which an observer follows a worker around for a period of time, observing the various tasks in which the worker engages. Considers potential relationship of work shadowing to work-related learning in the United States. (Author/NB)

Career education places its emphasis on developing personal preferences and on facilitating their implementation. Therefore career education must be comprised of systematic efforts in curriculum planning, guidance, works study programs, and other experiences designed to develop choice making, planning, and employability skills in all students. (KP)

Contributions include awareness of needs for linking today's educators to future options, for constantly assessing oneself for setting goals and making decisions, and for considering career education as a life long process. (MU)

Each year, millions of state and federal education funds are spent on career development interventions for America's teenagers. However, no uniform nomenclature, definition, and organization of these interventions exists in the professional literature. This hampers communication among and between practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. The…

Taiwanese college students (n=258) in career-education courses focused on interpersonal relationships or career planning were compared to 237 controls. Career education did not make significant changes in career beliefs but did affect career certainty and indecision. (SK)

Posits that youth unemployment is not an educational problem but an economic and political one. Any response must be economic and political in nature. While education must recognize and respond to youth unemployment, its contribution to the solution is a modest one. (JOW)

Describes the various forms of career guidance that are being developed in urban settings to respond to the guidance needs of a diverse urban adult population. Community-based approaches exist in many settings but are largely uncoordinated and frequently do not systematically address the diverse needs found in pluralistic adult populations.…

Contemporary notions of career education are cast against some of the ideas and practices that have laid a historical foundation for it. Current definition and concepts are reviewed along with greater opportunities, shifts in occupational structure, vocational aspects, and vocational guidance. (LBH)

Career education needs to stimulate educators to accept the fact that education can no longer confine its goals to the development of technical or academic skills. Increased efforts must be made in assisting students to grow in values, attitudes, and understandings, which permit them to make a career choice decision. (Author/BP)

This article examines the rise, definitions, and characteristics of careers education in England, contrasts it with American view of career education guidance, and draws implications for American education. (Author)

Following a brief discussion of the social and historical context of career education, the author discusses perspectives and ingredients of the career decisionmaking process, the importance of employability skills, and the role of the cooperative work experience. (HD)