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Beyond School to Work: Continuing Contributions of Theory and Practice to Career Development of Youth
Author(s) -
Hansen L. Sunny
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1999.tb00744.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , psychological intervention , work (physics) , sociology , youth work , relation (database) , need theory , career development , pedagogy , positive youth development , psychology , engineering ethics , public relations , political science , social psychology , developmental psychology , engineering , maslow's hierarchy of needs , computer science , mechanical engineering , paleontology , database , psychiatry , biology
This response (a) makes a few comments about the articles as a group, (b) briefly highlights the historical context of previous theory‐based models for career guidance in schools, and (c) argues that school to work (STW) is not an intellectual but an economic and a political strategy that needs to be examined carefully, especially in relation to students' career needs and theory‐based interventions of the recent past.