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Educating for careers : policy issues in a time of change
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Educating for careers : policy issues in a time of change

Author: Thomas F Powers; John R Swinton
Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1977.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas F Powers; John R Swinton
ISBN: 0271005114 : 9780271005119
OCLC Number: 2798257
Notes: An outgrowth of a symposium held in May 1976 at Pennsylvania State University.
Description: xxx, 190 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: An agenda for debate / Thomas F. Powers -- Education and work : which agency? What responsibilities? / Thomas F. Green -- Job and work : two models for society and education / Arthur G. Wirth -- Educational relevance for future employer or future employee? / Paul C. Gilmore -- Technological unemployment and occupational education / Lester C. Thurow -- An alternative view of technological unemployment and occupational education / Edwin L. Herr -- Career planning in high school / Morgan V. Lewis -- Certification, articulation, and caste / Kenneth S. Tollett -- Credentialism, vocationalism, and socioeconomic status / Sheila M. Huff -- Caste, class, and career certification / Peter B. Meyer -- Certification, articulation, and caste : a societal perspective / Gary P. Johnson -- Education beyond the economic model / Nathan Glazer -- "Naught for your comfort" / Henry C. Johnson -- Education beyond the economic model : a practitioner's view / Helen D. Wise -- Education beyond the economic model : a view from organized labor / Al Lorente -- Occupational curricula and "generalizable" education / Thomas F. Powers -- The occupational curriculum as a problem in design / William E. Toombs -- The social priority of adult education / Edward V. Ellis and Marlowe Froke -- Occupational education, higher education, and a changing society / Thomas F. Powers.
Responsibility: edited by Thomas F. Powers, with the assistance of John R. Swinton.

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