The Internationalization of Educational and Vocational Guidance

The authors identify and discuss the main themes from the discourse on the internationalization of educational and vocational guidance at the 2004 Symposium on International Perspectives on Career Development, cosponsored by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance and the National Career Development Association. Participants from 46 countries discussed international perspectives on and comparative features of educational and vocational guidance. They concentrated on issues of designing and adapting models, methods, and materials for career education and counseling. Three additional themes revolved around the importance of public policy initiatives, training enough practitioners to meet the growing international need for career services, and the promise of information technology for expanding the delivery of educational and vocational guidance and for supporting career counselors.     

Salmagundi: Early Thoughts on Vocational Guidance

Howard V. Davis, professor of Counselor Education, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, came across the following selections while doing research into contributions of Hugo Münsterberg pertinent to vocational guidance. Davis identified the author as follows: Hugo Münsterberg, born and educated in Germany and brought to Harvard University in the 1890s by William James to develop the psychological laboratory there, is generally credited with being the father of industrial and applied psychology. His development of vocational tests and his work with the practical selection of workers for various occupations helped to produce some of the important principles of personnel selection and of vocational guidance.     

德育改革不可或缺的目标：生命教育

本文分析了当前德育存在缺乏人文关怀、忽视传统伦理道德资源作用、忽略对个体生命的关注等局限，指出开展生命教育的意义，提出开展生命教育的主要内容是传统文化教育、知情意行教育与现代公民教育，生命教育的发展方向是哲学心理学、生理健康、生活教育、生存教育和职业生涯规划教育取向的生命教育。     

Vocational Psychology and Career Guidance Practice: An International Partnership

Vast changes in the world of work spurred by rapid technological growth and globalization have called for a more inclusive, progressive, and forward thinking conceptualization of vocational theory, practice, training, and policy. Discussions across 8 discussion groups at the 2007 joint symposium of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Society for Vocational Psychology, and National Career Development Association addressed various topics in the field of vocational psychology and career guidance. Several themes emerged that have captured the attention of career scholars and practitioners across the globe: culture and context in theory and practice, research as a process within a contextual system, partnership and collaboration, and social responsibility and public policy.