In 1980 the cape Education Department launched a Gifted and Talented programme in some schools which was intended to enrich the educational experience of the more able pupils. Numerous studies have shown these pupils to have a higher level of career maturity than non-gifted pupils, but the studies have also shown that these pupils face unique career- development problems. Gifted and Talented pupils constitute an important source of manpower and their potential contribution to the total society is great. Consequently they are in need of effective career guidance to help them overcome their unique problems and realize their potential. This study set out to discover if the career maturity of a group of Standard 9 Gifted and Talented pupils, identified according to the original Cape Education Department criteria, is indeed higher than that of their peers and to make recommendations for facilitating career education among these pupils. Contrary to expectations the Gifted and Talented pupils did not show significantly higher levels of career maturity than their peers, as measured on the Attitude Scale of Crites ' Career Maturity Inventory. Compared with the American norms , the scores obtained by the research population were unfavourable. The validity of the I .Q. scores used and the criteria for identification of Gifted and Talented pupils are seen as questionable which could have led to an inaccurate grouping of the pupils as Gifted and Talented or non- gifted. Recommendations are made for a basic career education programme for all pupils which would include periods of active work experience. Recommendations for additional career education for those currently classified as Gifted and Talented pupils are also made, so as to allow these pupils additional time for self- development, decisionmaking and dealing with their unique life situation

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-119). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M. Ed.), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1998. / Bibliography: leaves 71-73.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-99). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Ed. )--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999. / Bibliography: leaves 91-96.

Thesis (M. Ed.), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1998. / Bibliography: leaves 68-73.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-99). Also available on the Internet.

by Ming-fai Law. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 291-312). / Abstract and appendix in English and Chinese. / Title --- p.i / English extract --- p.ii / Chinese extract --- p.iv / Declaration --- p.v / Acknowledgement --- p.vi / Dedication --- p.viii / Table of contents --- p.ix / List of Exhibits --- p.xv / List of Appendices --- p.xvii / Desiderata --- p.xviii / Preface: The button --- p.xix / Chapter Section One: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background of the study --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The professional journey --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- The view to students in a prevocational school --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Focus and objectives of the study --- p.5 / Chapter 1.5 --- Potential contributions of the study --- p.6 / Chapter 1.6 --- Chapter organization --- p.7 / Chapter Section Two: --- Literature review and theoretical framework --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature review (Part 1): School social work in Hong Kong --- p.8 / Chapter 2.0 --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Background and development of the school social work service --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- The school social work service delivery --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- The expertise of school social work knowledge --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Existing service models --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Policy requirement --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- "Preferred service delivery model and ""social work"" definition of school" --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3 --- The school casework service --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The significance of studying the school casework service --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- The special features of the school casework service --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3.2.1 --- The statistics of casework problem natures --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.2.2 --- Clients' impression towards school casework service --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3.2.3 --- Cooperation with school personnel --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.2.4 --- Working with other helping professionals in the community --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4 --- Conclusion --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Literature review (Part 2): The direct work (clinical work) with clients of the school casework service --- p.30 / Chapter 3.0 --- Introduction --- p.30 / Chapter 3.1 --- The current working paradigms of school casework service --- p.31 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Review of the school social work case studies --- p.31 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Preliminary study of school social workers --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2 --- Theories influencing the intervention of school casework service --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- The biological theory --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The developmental theory --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Learning and social learning theories --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Cognitive theories --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- Delinquency studies --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2.6 --- Family system therapy --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3 --- The cultural dimension - The Chinese values --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Basic conception of Chinese ethics --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- The Chinese way of guiding young persons --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4 --- The epistemological position of the present study --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Comments about the literature review --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- The tasks for the present study --- p.52 / Chapter 3.5 --- Conclusion --- p.54 / Chapter Chapter Four --- "Theoretical framework and research objectives: ""Narrative informed practice"" of school casework service" --- p.55 / Chapter 4.0 --- Introduction --- p.55 / Chapter 4.1 --- "The theoretical doctrine of ""narrative""" --- p.56 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- "The scope of a ""narrative""" --- p.56 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Narrative reasoning and logico-scientific reasoning --- p.58 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- "The ""common"" features of a narrative" --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.3.1 --- Time --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.3.2 --- Intentionality --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.3.3 --- Narrative form --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.3.4 --- Meaning of a narrative --- p.63 / Chapter 4.1.3.5 --- Telling and retelling of a lived experience --- p.66 / Chapter 4.1.3.6 --- The dual landscape of a lived experience --- p.67 / Chapter 4.1.3.7 --- "The relationship between the ""part"" and the ""whole"" of a narrative" --- p.68 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- The narrative asymmetry --- p.69 / Chapter 4.1.5 --- Summing up for the theoretical doctrine --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2 --- Connecting the theoretical doctrine to the practice theory --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- """Meaning"" revisited in “narrative informed practice""" --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- "The meaning of a ""client""" --- p.74 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Reasons for seeking the school casework service --- p.75 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Theoretical linkage between narrative principles and the casework practice --- p.76 / Chapter 4.2.4.1 --- Time --- p.76 / Chapter 4.2.4.2 --- Intentionality --- p.76 / Chapter 4.2.4.3 --- Narrative form --- p.77 / Chapter 4.2.4.4 --- "Narrative activities within ""narrative informed practice""" --- p.78 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- "Differentiation of ""narrative informed practice"" with other related psychotherapies" --- p.80 / Chapter 4.3 --- """Narrative informed practice"" in action" --- p.83 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- """Narrative informed practice"" and social work values" --- p.83 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- "Goals and objectives of ""narrative informed practice""" --- p.83 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- The roles of the school social worker during the practice --- p.84 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- The worker-client relationship --- p.85 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- "A word about ""emotion"" during the practice" --- p.85 / Chapter 4.3.6 --- "Tasks of the school social worker during the ""narrative informed practice""" --- p.86 / Chapter 4.3.7 --- "The advantages of the ""narrative informed practice""" --- p.88 / Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusion and the research objectives --- p.91 / Chapter Section Three: --- Methodology --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Research design and methodology --- p.93 / Chapter 5.0 --- Overview --- p.93 / Chapter 5.1 --- Rationale in adopting a qualitative research --- p.94 / Chapter 5.2 --- The inquiry root - social constuctionism --- p.96 / Chapter 5.3 --- Research design --- p.98 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Naturalistic casework research --- p.98 / Chapter 5.3.1.1 --- The research procedures of the naturalistic casework research --- p.100 / Chapter Step 1: --- Preparation for the research --- p.101 / Chapter Step 2: --- Personal experience method in reviewing the data --- p.104 / Chapter Step 3: --- Peer group meeting --- p.105 / Chapter Step 4: --- Interviewing the clients about the past casework experience --- p.107 / Chapter Step 5: --- Narrative analysis of the author cum researcher --- p.107 / Chapter Step 6: --- Writing the case study --- p.109 / Chapter Step 7: --- Member checking --- p.110 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Clients' evaluation of the school casework service --- p.111 / Chapter 5.3.2.1 --- Locating the scope of evaluation --- p.111 / Chapter 5.3.2.2 --- Areas of evaluation --- p.112 / Chapter 5.3.2.3 --- Steps of evaluation --- p.113 / Chapter 5.4 --- Time-line of the research --- p.114 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusion --- p.114 / Chapter Section Four: --- Case studies and evaluation --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Background study and the school setting --- p.115 / Chapter 6.0 --- Intro duction --- p.115 / Chapter 6.1 --- Prevocational school as the site of intervention --- p.115 / Chapter 6.2 --- Specific description of the site --- p.117 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Structure of student affairs --- p.117 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Student management --- p.117 / Chapter 6.3 --- Summary --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter Seven --- A story of floating --- p.122 / The first interview --- p.122 / The second interview --- p.127 / The third interview --- p.133 / The fourth interview --- p.137 / Latter interviews --- p.139 / Conclusion --- p.141 / Chapter Chapter Eight --- "“I don't want to go to school!""" --- p.142 / The referral --- p.142 / I was really worried that Wai-hung would be bad --- p.144 / I don't want to go to school! --- p.150 / The family interviews --- p.160 / Post-intervention scenario --- p.167 / Conclusion --- p.167 / Chapter Chapter Nine --- "Violence, tears, crisis and hope" --- p.169 / The referral --- p.169 / The meaning of being a triad member --- p.170 / The history of conduct and the liaison with teachers --- p.171 / The progress --- p.174 / One false accusation leading to one real accusation --- p.175 / The letter exchange --- p.176 / Personal reflection from May 1999 to July 1999 --- p.180 / "The ""new"" start and another hitting" --- p.181 / From an individual story to a story with the family and the school --- p.183 / Kwong-lung´ةs runaway from the family --- p.185 / Turn over a new leaf and the first court hearing --- p.188 / The second court hearing and the remand --- p.191 / 21days of remand --- p.193 / The verdict --- p.197 / The division of labor between the school social worker and the probation officer --- p.197 / Struggle with schooling and life-wrestle --- p.200 / Conclusion --- p.206 / Chapter Chapter Ten --- Transforming body mutilation to family loyalty --- p.208 / Presenting problem of Kaki --- p.208 / Family background of Kaki --- p.209 / Session one: Exploring the stress --- p.210 / Session two: Friends and love --- p.214 / Session three: Teacher's view on Kaki --- p.217 / Session four: A brief encounter --- p.219 / Session five: Peeling off the onion skins again --- p.219 / Session six: Visiting the past --- p.221 / Session seven: Paving the avenue for family interviews --- p.224 / Session eight: The first family interview without Kaki --- p.227 / "Session nine: The sister,the sister's boyfriend and Kaki" --- p.231 / Preparing the end of the school term --- p.233 / Session ten: Support work --- p.234 / Session eleven: Preparing the closure --- p.234 / Session twelve: The termination --- p.236 / Three months' later --- p.238 / Conclusion --- p.239 / Chapter Chapter Eleven --- Clients' post-hoc evaluations --- p.240 / Chapter 11.0 --- Introduction --- p.240 / Chapter 11.1 --- Evaluation data by individual case --- p.241 / Chapter 11.2 --- Significant findings --- p.246 / Chapter 11.2.1 --- Significant events --- p.246 / Chapter 11.2.2 --- The clients' subjective helpfulness of the service --- p.248 / Chapter 11.2.3 --- Intervention strategy --- p.249 / Chapter 11.2.3.1 --- Overall intervention --- p.249 / Chapter 11.2.3.2 --- Office interviews --- p.250 / Chapter 11.2.3.3 --- Letters Versus interviews --- p.252 / Chapter 11.2.3.4 --- Suggestions for improvements --- p.253 / Chapter 11.2.4 --- The qualities of a school social worker during the casework service --- p.254 / Chapter 11.2.5 --- Worker-client relationship --- p.255 / Chapter 11.2.6 --- Subjective usefulness of the casework service --- p.256 / Chapter 11.2.7 --- Usefulness of the evaluation --- p.257 / Chapter 11.3 --- Summary and conclusion --- p.257 / Chapter Section Five: --- Discussion and conclusion --- p.260 / Chapter Chapter Twelve --- Discussion and implications --- p.260 / Chapter 12.0 --- Introduction --- p.260 / Chapter 12.1 --- Limitations of the study --- p.260 / Chapter 12.2 --- Implications for the study --- p.263 / Chapter 12.2.1 --- Implications for the practice theory --- p.263 / Chapter 12.2.1.1 --- "Revisiting the goals and objectives of the ""narrative informed practice""" --- p.263 / Chapter 12.2.1.2 --- Revisiting the roles of a school social worker --- p.264 / Chapter 12.2.1.3 --- A discussion of the intervention of a school social worker --- p.265 / Chapter a. --- Overall intervention --- p.265 / Chapter b. --- Office interviews --- p.266 / Chapter 1. --- The use of metaphors --- p.267 / Chapter 2. --- To maximize the usefulness of interviews more than two persons --- p.268 / Chapter 3. --- Inclusion of different change agents in the interviews --- p.268 / Chapter 4. --- Clients' responsibility --- p.269 / Chapter c. --- Letter exchange --- p.269 / Chapter d. --- Revisiting the qualities of a school social worker during the casework practice --- p.270 / Chapter e. --- Revisiting the worker-client relationship --- p.270 / Chapter f. --- Working with school system --- p.271 / Chapter g. --- Working with other professionals --- p.273 / Chapter h. --- "The discussion of the advantages of the ""narrative informed practice" --- p.273 / Chapter 12.2.2 --- Implications for evaluation --- p.275 / Chapter 12.2.3 --- Methodological implications --- p.275 / Chapter 12.2.4 --- Research implications --- p.278 / Chapter 12.2.5 --- Implications for school casework service --- p.278 / Chapter 12.2.6 --- Recommendations for further research direction and strategy --- p.279 / Chapter 12.3 --- Conclusion --- p.281 / Chapter Chapter Thirteen --- Summary and recommendations --- p.282 / Chapter 13.1 --- "Implications for the practice theory of ""narrative informed practice""" --- p.282 / Chapter 13.2 --- Implications for evaluation --- p.284 / Chapter 13.3 --- Methodological implications --- p.285 / Chapter 13.4 --- Research implications --- p.285 / Chapter 13.5 --- Implications for the school casework service --- p.286 / Chapter 13.6 --- Limitations of this study --- p.286 / Chapter 13.7 --- Future research direction --- p.287 / Chapter Chapter Fourteen --- Epilogue --- p.288 / Chapter 14.1 --- The theoretical struggle --- p.288 / Chapter 14.2 --- The practice struggle --- p.389 / Chapter 14.3 --- The professional journey to a new territory --- p.290 / Reference --- p.291 / Appendices --- p.313

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 19, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

With serious skill shortages in the field of marketing expected during this time period, the increase in marketing opportunities will reinforce the importance of marketing education (U. S. Department of Labor, 1989). "Marketing education programs must be structured to match the diversity of marketing dealing with the principles, concepts, attitudes, and skills necessary to prepare students to work in retail, service, and other business environments." (National Marketing Education Curriculum Framework, 1987, p. 7). The attitudes counselors have toward marketing education can have a major impact on course enrollment and students' planning of schedules including a combination of both academic and vocational courses (Washburn & McEwen, 1989). To date no evidence was found in the literature that shows what high school counselors think about the overall marketing education program. The purpose of this study was to determine selected Virginia's secondary school counselors' perceptions towards Virginia's Marketing Education program. A mail survey was developed and distributed to 186 schools offering a Marketing Education program in Virginia. When completing Section 1 of the survey instrument, participants supplied information concerning selected demographic variables. Data obtained from Section 1 were used to determine if differences existed between these selected demographic variables and Virginia's secondary school counselors' attitudes toward Virginia's Marketing Education program. When completing Section 2, participants used a 5-item Likert-type scale to indicate their attitudes toward Virginia's Marketing Education program. When completing Section 3--Virginia's secondary school counselors' knowledge of Virginia's Marketing Education program--participants selected true, false, or don't know to indicate their knowledge of Virginia's Marketing Education program. Two hundred and eighty-five counselors in 62% of the schools offering a Marketing Education program in Virginia participated in the study. Research question 1 found that most of the counselors responding have a positive attitude toward Virginia's Marketing Education programs. Research question 2, seeking information on what secondary school counselors know about Marketing Education found that even though their attitudes may be positive, they are not knowledgeable about the Marketing Education program. Research question 3 concerning selected demographic variables in relation to counselors' attitudes toward and knowledge of Marketing Education found that very small differences exist between the selected demographic variables and Virginia's secondary school counselors' attitudes toward and knowledge of Virginia's Marketing Education program. Conclusions and discussion, considerations for the study, recommendations, and suggestions for future research were described. / Ed. D.