Four Worlds: An Approach to Occupational Guidance

Abstract

Because existing career patterns are changing so rapidly and radically, new approaches to vocational guidance are needed. One approach, used by a team of teachers instructing a vocational guidance course in a junior high school, was to broaden students' overall understanding and awareness of the world, rather than to focus on specific career areas. The rationale for this approach was that if students are even to begin making meaningful vocational investigations they must first become more aware of the almost infinite possibilities that are open to them—their worlds must be enlarged. Students were, therefore, introduced to four worlds: the Natural, the Technological, the Aesthetic, and the Human World. Students seemed to become not only more aware of new worlds, but also more cognizant of the problems and challenges confronting man today.