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Career Education

A rather recent innovation in education is career education. Selected educators have felt that students graduating from the schools have not received adequate information on career opportunities. Further, it is felt that the school students, upon graduation, have not been prepared for selecting a career when entering the labour market. Individuals too frequently have drifted into a career rather than selecting a vocation which is satisfying to the individual.

As students progress through the school years, they are to achieve relevant objectives pertaining to understanding, skills, and attitudes in career education. A variety of learning experiences, such as using films, filmstrips, slides, reading materials, resources personnel, and excursions, among others, should aid learners in understanding diverse careers. Work experience for high school students definitely is important in programmes of career education.
Questions that can be asked about programmes in career education could be the following:-

Will these programmes help students to decide upon a satisfying, worth-while vocation ?

Are careers stable enough in terms of change so that relatively permanent understandings, skills, and attitudes can be developed useful to the learner in terms of selecting a future vocation ?

Will students experience enough of reality to attach “meaning learning”, pertaining to career ?

Does the school system has adequate teaching materials to use in teaching units on career education ?

Can interest be developed and/or maintained within young children when teaching units on career education ?

Who should determine objectives in units on career education ? The teacher ? The Society ? The Students ?

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