Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7 ...

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Page 1 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:35 am, in room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 501 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND...
Page 260 - Career education is the total effort of public education and the community aimed at helping all individuals to become familiar with the values of a work-oriented society, to integrate these values into their personal value systems, and to implement these values in their lives in such a way that work becomes possible, meaningful and satisfying to each individual.
Page 392 - 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 397 - 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 399 - From this point of view, the principle of continuity of experience means that every experience both takes up something from those which have gone before and modifies in some way the quality of those which come after.
Page 277 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is indeed a pleasure to appear before you today and to give you a brief word picture of the activities of the Army Ground Forces.
Page 215 - Career education is not directed at resolving social problems, developing avenues of upward mobility, or making school and work more satisfying experiences. It is aimed instead at reducing expectations, limiting aspirations, and increasing commitments to the existing social structure.
Page 347 - ... (3) assessing the status of career education programs and practices, including a reassessment of the stereotyping of career opportunities by race or by sex; (4) providing for the demonstration of the best of the current career education programs and practices by the development and testing of exemplary programs and practices using various theories, concepts, and approaches with respect to career education; (5) providing for the training and retraining...
Page 380 - 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.

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