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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED158015 AUTHOR: Spann, Jerry
TITLE: Career Exploration and Specialization: A New
Training Design for Adult and Youth Work Experience.
Concept Paper (and Synopsis).
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 36 p.
ABSTRACT: To address the Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act (CETA) client's need for career development
experience and skills, the Affirmative Action Office of
Dane County (Wisconsin) and the Adult Work Experience
Program (AWEP) staff plan to implement a year-long training
program aimed at job exploration, internship, and
personalized decision making. This Experience-Based Career
Education (EBCE) program is designed to introduce
employer-directed career development into the placement
process. Primarily adapted from the Philadelphia model
which was developed and field tested by the National
Institute of Education, the proposed training design
utilizes a two-phase, pre-placement learning process.
Following in-take evaluation, phase 1 begins with the
client's exploration of as many as five areas: labor and
maintenance, social services, health services, business and
office, and civil and criminal law. In phase 2,
specialization, clients select internship sites
and design skill-centered learning contracts. Guidance and
basic skills remediation are offered, and clients are
helped to determine their needs and interests and to make
personalized career choices. (Appended are (1) a continuum
of possible exploration activities originating from the
Philadelphia research, (2) examples of exploration programs
using a Food and Drug Administration Program and a
Philadelphia Free Library program, and (3) a sample
specialization contract.) (CSS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Career-Education; County-Programs;
Decision Making-Skills; Demonstration-Programs;
Employer-Employee Relationship; Experiential-Learning;
Job-Training; Labor Force-Development; Learning-Activities;
On-the-Job-Training; Program-Design; Remedial-Instruction;
Vocational-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Adult-Vocational-Education; *Career
Exploration; *Job-Placement; *Specialization-; *Training
Methods; *Work-Experience-Programs
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