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This article describes a model career education program for urban youth. The program exemplified promising practices in career education by providing all career education experiences in the context of real life experiences. Work site supervisors' ratings of youths' initiative and responsibility significantly increased over the course of the seven week program.
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Taymans, J., Lewis, K. & Ramsay, A.S. Contextual career education for urban youth: A new look at experience based career education. J Career Dev 16, 283–295 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01352323
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01352323