Written for displaced homemaker programs in vocational-technical schools, this curriculum contains material designed so that instructors can prepare student manuals appropriate to almost any educational support situation for displaced homemakers. An overview provides information on special needs groups, curriculum use, and resources and sample…

This paper briefly outlines the theory and development of Values Clarification and explores its possible applications to English as a foreign language (EFL). The five basic types of Values Clarification exercises are discussed: (1) interviewing, (2) rank-ordering, (3) forced choice, (4) values continuum, and (5) sentence completion. The theory and…

Describes a service learning project where students identify a real political problem, research related issues, and propose a solution. Members of the U.S. Congress and county offices of education have created corresponding awards programs. Includes procedures for creating a local project. (MJP)

Calls for an expansion of the objectives of vocational education to include consideration of the nature, value, and purpose of work. Finds justification for this in the changing job market and John Dewey's original conception of vocational education. Suggests that some form of this approach become part of all students' curriculum. (MJP)

As part of the career development curriculum materials for Michigan schools, this book contains 100 strategies (learning activities) for teachers to use in presenting various aspects of career development to students in grades K-6. The strategies are grouped by grade level K-3 and 4-6 and organized around the four components of the Michigan career…

This workbook is one component of the Career Survival Kit prepared for teenage parents in Wisconsin. Designed to be used with a companion visual," Teenage Parents; Making It Work," (one of the two visuals included in the complete kit) the workbook information and activities for teens to use to strengthen their skills in the following…

This document is the introductory module of a 9-module set within an 11-unit resource pack designed to help trainers and postsecondary and continuing education staff meet the needs of special needs students in Great Britain. Having completed this module, staff should be able to: (1) recognize and counter the effects of stereotyped images and…

In Kentucky, 50 seventh and eighth grade students at Berea Community School and over 150 community businesses and agencies were involved in a 2-year project designed to develop a community-based, interdisciplinary citizenship education program for junior high students. The program was divided into three major parts: the formal classroom, the…

This booklet of Self-Inventory Cards is one of the 14 components of the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program (see note), a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are…

This Job Function Book (Advising) is one of the 14 components (see note) of the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program, a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are representative…

This Job Function Booklet (Doing Clerical Work) is one of the 14 components (see note) of the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program, a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are…

This Job Function Booklet (Helping) is one of the 14 components (see note) of the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program, a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are…

This curriculum guide contains four units for a secondary consumer and homemaking education course in dynamics of living. Unit titles include (1) Understanding Ourselves (Personality, Human Needs, Value Clarification), (2) Interpersonal Relationship (Developing Relationships, Communication, Accepting Responsibility, Conflict and Change), (3)…

This is a participant's guide of a community-based guidance program designed to help high school graduates become aware of themselves and of educational and employment opportunities and to develop the strength to carry out the life changes they choose to make. It consists of four sections. In section 1, entitled "Becoming Aware," a…

Six papers on the current and future state of inservice teacher education are presented in this monograph. In the first paper, a futuristic approach to what will comprise an educated person in the years to come envisions holistic education with an emphasis upon service to humankind and realization of world peace. An examination of the fundamental…