An Examination of the Definitions and Concepts of Career Education

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The Council, 1977 - Career education - 39 pages
 

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Page 19 - That commission recognized: health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocation, citizenship, worthy use of leisure, and ethical character as the seven cardinal principles of secondary education.
Page 24 - The democracy which proclaims equality of opportunity as its ideal requires an education in which learning and social application, ideas and practice, work and recognition of the meaning of what is done, are united from the beginning and for all.
Page 7 - The sequence of major positions occupied by a person throughout his preoccupational , occupational, and postoccupational life; Includes work-related roles such as those of student, employee, and pensioner, together with complementary avocational, familial, and civic roles. Careers exist only as people pursue them; they are person-centered (Super, 1976, p.
Page 25 - Owens et al. (1974) see Dewey's theory, especially its advocacy of experiential learning, as forming a solid philosophical framework for evaluating the Experience-Based Career Education program. EBCE, described earlier, is that portion of the federal career education models designed to provide Integrated learning experiences out in the community, "to integrate a student's knowledge of a variety of careers with the acquisition of cognitive, interpersonal and affective skills through a series of planned...
Page 16 - Career education" is the totality of experiences through which one learns about and prepares to engage in work as part of her or his way of living.
Page 33 - We defined life career development as self-development over the life span through the integration of the roles, settings, and events in a person's life.
Page 24 - ... in making their own adjustments. A division of the public school system into one part which pursues traditional methods, with incidental improvements, and another which deals with those who are to go into manual labor means a plan of social predestination totally foreign to the spirit of a democracy.
Page 8 - ... programs; and (6) developing State and local plans for implementing career education programs designed to insure that every child has the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary for gainful or maximum employment and for full participation in our society according to his or her ability.

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