While the fields of work-integrated learning (WIL) and career development share common goals, WIL literature tends to focus on student employability more than students' ability to manage their careers. The Leading Edge program at a Canadian institution, the University of Victoria, brings together these two disciplines as it draws from theory and…

The authors describe the efforts of the faculty and administration at a small, Midwestern, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business-accredited school to improve business students' career readiness. Over a four-year period, the school moved through three distinctive phases in developing a robust career development program serving…

This handbook provides a guide for elementary school teachers in developing a curriculum around five general concepts: there is dignity in all work; the life of a culture depends on its workers who produce goods and services; there are many different kinds of work; mankind uses tools for work; and work has rewards. Each section covers a different…

This document contains excerpts from two larger studies illustrating how two communities have approached problems of bias and neglect in the occupational education area. The first series of excerpts come from a curriculum study conducted in an affluent suburb where a high motivation for college preparatory work exists but not for occupational…

The article discusses the career development theory (a theory of life stages and developmental tasks, career patterns, and individual differences) and what to expect of elementary/secondary career education and guidance programs in terms of planning, objectives, curriculum development, and evaluation methods, processes, outcomes, and criteria in…

Presented is a dissertation that demonstrates the importance of health education in the satisfactory accomplishment of the tasks of an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) or others similarly engaged in the same field. The rationale supporting the argument for the inclusion of a course of health education in the training program of environmentally…

Prepared as a part of the Career Education Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the paper examines and discusses broad goals and purposes of career education and reviews current related literature. Attention is given to the "who" and "what" of curriculum and instruction in terms of the coalition of…

Describes the four phases of the Comprehensive Career Education Model and its curriculum, guidance, and evaluation tasks. (SB)

Prepared as a part of the Career Education Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the paper reviews the varying definitions of the term "career education" and describes the evolution of the concept, schema, and models. Evidence of acceptance and support of the career education concept by education agencies is examined.…

Presents a model for organizing vocational curriculum to better serve individual students' career development needs and delivering it in an efficient (less costly) manner. Rationale and administrative structure for the Performance-Based, Multi Occupational (PBMO) program are presented and a seven-dimensional program organization and curriculum…

A project was undertaken to develop the curriculum content for a unique career ladder multi-entry/multi-exit nursing program that would provide training for nurse aides, practical nurses, and registered nurses. The major objectives of the project were to conduct a review of the literature on curriculum materials presently in use, to develop 11…

This conceptual framework for the development and implementation of a career development continuum, K-14, in the State of Hawaii is comprised of three parts: (1) a rationale of underlying assumptions and principles; (2) a theoretical conceptualization of a career development continuum; and (3) a conceptualization of goals and objectives of career…

Describes the career education program implemented into the specialized secretarial courses at Queensborough Community College (New York); discusses how the career library is organized and how career-development activities are incorporated into classes and evaluated. (TA)

This manual, produced and used in a project of the Central Oklahoma Area Vocational Technical School, provides direction for developing and implementing a school-to-work curriculum for secondary students. Based on the Central Oklahoma Vocational-Technical Model, the guide contains the following 11 sections: (1) blueprint for getting students ready…

Twenty-nine speeches presented at a five-state (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico) conference are contained in this report. A wide range of vocational education topics are covered including working with the disadvantaged, development and improvement of vocational-technical programs, personnel and staff development, and the role of…