2011 年 41 巻 1 号 p. 9-11
The focus of this paper is career preparation and selection in secondary school. In most countries today many young people struggle with their career planning and selection. Traditional school programs and subjects seem not to designed to bridge the gap between general education, career preparation and the transition into a professional career. In this paper we discuss the challenge of implementing such programs for career preparation and selection in a time of globalization and increasing complexity on the labor market. The context of this study is the high school system in Norway, recent educational reforms and empirical data collected from surveys on vocational preparation and entrepreneurship education.