ABSTRACT
Careers education was a major component of schools' programmes and one which teachers generally felt the project had been influential in developing. This chapter concentrates on three aspects of the careers education programmes: the job choice model; the treatment of unemployment as a topic; and the role of the careers officer. These three are chosen since they point up many of the crucial issues which careers teachers and others currently confront. As the project developed and the employment situation worsened teachers had to reappraise how the topic of unemployment was to be treated in their general careers education programmes. The development of careers education in the project schools over the three years 1978–81 represented some shift of emphasis towards individual and social change. Like an organism, a curriculum subject has a stable existence when it is functionally integrated with its external environment.
