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career education  

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  • Career education refers to both a historical education reform movement and an evolving concept that reflects a process of bringing occupational relevance to academic curriculum and informing adolescents about themselves and the world of work. As a reform movement in the 1970s, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Sidney P. Marland Jr., initiated and sustained an effort to enact federal legislation supporting career education. [Source: Encyclopedia of Career Development; Career Education]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VCDX5PTV-B

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