Research On The Strategies Of Carrying Out Career Education In Senior High Schools

The senior high period is an essential phase when students get to know themselves, basically form their own world outlook, life perspective and values and finally march toward a happy future. During this period, they are expected to experience such real life choices as choosing arts or science, selections of colleges and majors as well as decisions on where to go if they fail the NMET. Therefore, it is vital that we should advance the career planning education from in university to senior high school in order for the freshmen not to frequently change their majors, the sophomore not to drop out due to hating school or for the graduates not to give up poor employment and depend on their parents for a living because what is learned doesn’t agree with what is needed.This thesis tries to clarify the necessity of implementing career planning education in senior high schools based on a comprehensive documentary research, reference to some relevant works, magazines and my personal experiences. According to the field questionnaires I conclude the present situation of career education and dig out the reasons behind it. Considering the actual educational environment of our country and S city and modeling after the successful practice of foreign career education, I give some practical and operable advice on the solutions to the problems of bringing the career education into effect.This paper is divided into four parts. The first part gives an introduction to the research background, current research situations, related concepts, theoretical basis as well as research ideas and methods. In the body, the first chapter is about the necessity of carrying out career education, pointing out that career planning is basic for students’ physical and mental development, vital for social and high school progress, and last but not least, for the advancing of career education itself. Besides, it is also a way to lessen the pressure of university enrollment, avoid talent waste and balance of the labor force distribution. The second chapter deals with the current problems of career education in some high schools in S city based on interviews and questionnaires. They include the students’lack of self-knowledge, understanding of different professions, sense of career planning as well as the ignorance of parents and schools on career planning education. The third chapter explores the implementing strategies of career education:the principles to follow, popularization of career planning concept, building career planning courses, enhancing counseling and guidance as well as workable social security systems.