Abstract
This study reexamines the fundamental concepts of "subject" and "self" in career education and discusses their practical implications. "Agency" a related idea in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development project, is concerned with the direction of wellbeing, oriented by the learning compass. These concepts in the national curriculum guidelines imply an integrated and unidimensional self. However, the philosophy of educa-tion, psychology, and sociology assume a relative, public, multi-dimensional, and constructed self. A conceptual framework of "subject" and "self" is proposed, and practical issues in career education for secondary education are discussed.
