Young women with disabilities often experience limited career options and opportunities. This study provides an overview and preliminary results from the "Paths 2 the Future" (P2F) curriculum designed to meet the unique career development needs of young women with disabilities. P2F includes 75 lessons covering topics of self-awareness,…

The study sought to identify the benefits of FFA membership based on the fulfillment of three basic human needs: love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. The study focused on the fulfillment of FFA members' basic human needs as defined by Abraham Maslow. The three needs on which this study focused are: love and belonging,…

Career education is for all people of all ages and has, as its common denominator, interaction among them. The concept underlying career education goes beyond academic and vocational activities to encompass the self actualization of each individual. Career education could be the vehicle by which a total view of the self worth of the individual is…

The document is part of a series that reports the findings and accomplishments of the Models for Career Education in Iowa project which was initiated to research, define, and describe an emerging concept of career education. The focus of the report is on the process of career choice and career decision making. Career choices are too often made on…

A description of three different programs shows how social studies needs to be an integral part of any comprehensive approach to career education. (Author/KM)

Examines the present state of career education and describes the concept of Life-Is-Career, the hallmarks of which are personal motivation and the evolution of consciousness. (SK)

Technical education can and should help the child develop the idea of himself as an adult. It can help him develop the maturity and competence required to perform useful work in our society and to obtain personal fulfillment experienced in the performance of such work. (DS)

Career education is a plan to adapt our educational system so that every child develops fully into a capacitating, participating, contributing, and fulfilled human being. Schools, in order to achieve these ends, must develop eight characteristics which are discussed in the article. (Author/BP)

It is generally agreed that self-awareness, career awareness, and the awareness of the decision-making process are all elements of career education which relate directly to career guidance activities. The contributors to this column review ten stories from children's literature that include elements of career education. (Author)

After positing the need for the bedrock of schooling (reading, writing, and computing numbers and quantities), the author examines the content and presentation of the rest of the curriculum. Two quiding principles are used in this examination: (1) surprisingly few particular pieces of knowledge and skill must be mastered by everybody in the same…

The process theory of lifecareer is discussed, emphasizing that the advancement of career education is linked to advances in understanding the human career and its education. (Author/BL)

Urges English teachers to adopt an approach to career education based on individual actualization; suggests several activities to accomplish this. (DD)

Adult educators must remain steadfast in their demand for education to develop the whole person, and in attempting to develop self-directed individuals, should use the resources of the total community in an effort to coordinate and give direction to the current emphasis in career education. (Author/AJ)