Examines the evolution of decision making from a position of minor significance to one of primary importance in vocational theory, and considers the effects of this development on counseling and educational practices. (JAC)

Work can be conceived as a significant aspect of everyday school, home, and community life, giving it a "here and now" character. These life experiences provide a structure for the introduction of concepts about work, work roles, and work functions as an integral part of the teaching-learning process. (Author)

The authors pull together a wide variety of practical methods and media for implementing career guidance programs from kindergarten through maturity. They draw on their extensive work with ERIC-CAPS and summarize several developmental strategies that might be used by teachers, counselors, or program developers. (Author)

Discusses the use of guided fantasy in vocational counseling as employed in career exploration programs. Presents an example of technique and some examples of some university students' fantasies. Concludes that structured career fantasies do reveal important career choices. (HMV)

A report of how counselors in one school system utilized a careers course as a means of organizing and disseminating career information effectively to high school students. (JC)

In this article the authors identify four conceptions of career education. They then present a conceptual framework for career development programs which has grown out of programmatic research that the authors have carried out over the past five years. (Author)

The growing emphasis on organizational change and curriculum intervention is given a new look through the eyes of a change process model that provides a framework for examining the steps in developing, implementing, evaluating, and expanding a career development program. (Author)

Two of the innovators of the concept of career development through curriculum describe the current status of the DCGP in Detroit, Michigan, giving special emphasis to evaluation outcomes. (Author)

A small liberal arts college has taken a serious interest in student career development and has created a sequence of experiences and career planning approaches for the student in a four-year college. The authors describe the seven stages of career development at the college level. (Author)

The authors provide a brief review of the evolution of theory and practice in career guidance from an occupational choice perspective to a career development perspective. They suggest that career development should be broadened to become life career development. (Author)

The author puts together three historical thrusts in career development in such a way that counselors can operationalize them as they develop intervention and decision making programs that focus on the reintegration of self. (Author)

Assesses and summarizes core aspects of the career development of American youth. A major finding is the sharp contrast between students' need for help with career planning and the help they have been receiving. (Author)

Includes a review of the origin and nature of the Protestant (Work) Ethic and a brief outline of some alternative ethics. Ethical and practical problems arise when career education presumes to advocate a single traditional work ethic; this article suggests a solution to these problems. (Author)

Article discusses work neglected by counselors and psychologists in relation to vocational theory and career counseling. Article concludes that work for majority of people is not fulfilling. (Author)

The first article argues that student personnel professionals must become knowledgeable about the implications of the learning-earning conflict in higher education. It offers an alternative model for career development. A second article comments on the first. (Author)