New models of career education are needed to prepare young people for changes and challenges in the world of work. We propose that the psychology of working framework/theory (PWF/PWT) has the potential to shape career education in transformative ways that are attentive to shifting dimensions of the local context and the marginalization of large…

This article proposes a STEM workforce education logic model, tailored to the particular context of the National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program. This model aims to help program designers and researchers address challenges particular to designing, implementing, and studying education…

This is a report about a unique postsecondary education system, the Tennessee Technology Centers--a statewide system of 27 institutions providing a wide range of rigorous, one to two year, technical/occupational education programs at consistently high completion and placement rates in high skill and relatively high wage employment. This report…

This paper attempts to provide a framework by which educators interested in stimulating career development can choose the learning experiences most likely to have payoffs for different age youth. Eight stages of child development are described with career development themes suggested for each stage along with sample activities. (Author)

Exemplary career education programs and materials for grades 7,8, and 9 are surveyed. A model program suggests content and activity emphases. (KM)

Why Pontiac was chosen to develop one of six USOE career education models and what the experience has meant to the school district and community. (Editor)

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)

A public secondary school's career and vocational education program is composed of five components: curriculum, career guidance and placement, community resource services, staff development, and evaluation. The program's ultimate goal is to help students become self sufficient and productive. (CL)

This model is a career-oriented approach designed to enhance the employability and career options of out-of-school adults. (Author)

Describes the career education needs of college women who are disabled, a project to provide for those needs, and first-year evaluation results. (Author)

The four elements of career development programs, occupational awareness, preliminary occupational skills, career planning, and intensive employment preparation, are discussed. (JS)

The book describes a project designed to develop, pilot, and assess a prototypic career education model to prepare handicapped children and youth for new careers in communication and media-related occupations. Some methodological issues are described, along with the construction and evaluation of the program model and the development,…

The career "cascade" approach to career education for learning disabled students is described. The model is developed on the belief that career education must be life centered, developmental, and individually designed. (PHR)

The Career Education Model of the Orange County Consortium (OCC), consisting of two school districts and a community college district, is a comprehensive educational program focusing on careers, which begins in the preschool years and continues through adult education. The interim report on this model opens with a brief summary of the goals,…

This document briefly summarizes the Kansas Model for career education. The model is explained through comparisons with other models, and through a brief description of its two-dimensional structure of process phases on one side and four career components on the other side (self, work, leisure, resources). The process itself is a decision-making…