Free job searching is the embodiment of the reasonable distribution of talent resources under market economy. The freedom in job searching raises higher requirement for the individual planning and decision, and for the existence and development. The objectives of the higher education is to train the specialized talents as the qualified the constructors and successors of the cause of the state, and at the same time, to improve the healthy development of the individuals and the realization of the individual ideals. Therefore, the important aspect of university education is to help the university students to set up the right outlook of life and career, to plan the future career, to help the students to get a better knowledge of the society, to adjust themselves to the environment, and to get integrated into the social demand. Thus the contents never covered by the traditional higher education—research on the career education is highlighted. The research on this topic is based upon such a reality. In today's world, the developed countries and regions all attach great importance to the career education. Currently, there is unique theoretical and practical system based upon career education, which has become one of the major contents of the students'work in the universities of the developed countries as in Europe and America, and it is quite standardized and specialized. But in our country, due to the social and historic reasons, the development of career education does not exist for a long time. And career instruction is almost a brand new conception and field. At present, many areas and institutions of higher education pay little attention to it, and what's more, the education contents are not scientific, the working systems not complete, and the working methods not standard, working efficiency unsatisfactory, …This article will make a disquisition on the following four aspects of the career education in the colleges and universities of China in a new period. Part one: the general elaboration on the career education. It clarifies the definitions of career and career education, the development history of career education, and evolution of the career education. It elaborates that the formation of career education thoughts is based upon the historical sublation of vocational guidance and has gone through four ideological changes, and contains a deep education philosophy of "how to advance human beings". Part two: comprehend the career education. On basis of part one, the article tries to comprehend the career education under the instruction of Marxist education philosophy, and makes the conclusion that career education fully represents Marxist philosophy in the overall development of human beings, and thus it is a principal and realistic education, and the relationship between education and development is the logic precondition of career education value orientation. It tries to construct the conceptual system of career education value orientation, and thus extracts the outlook of education and education concepts. It is necessary to comprehend career education from education philosophy, macro outlook on education. Career education is not only the tool, the life, the fact, but also a new life selection of new civilization and new generation of human beings, and it is an education of human beings in the real sense, which provides a theoretical reasonability and importance to career education construction. And this part is the basis of the whole article. Part three: It analyzes the necessity of the contemporary career education construction in the colleges and universities of our country. Based upon the historic background and the domestic situation, the article elaborates the following three aspects: the significance of strengthening the career education, history and status quo of the career education, and myths on the career education in the colleges and universities of China. Part four: it focuses on the implementation of the career education construction. Through the discussion of "operation theory and main contents of career education in the colleges and universities of China", "major principles of career education"and "organization form and implementation path of the current career education", it tries to constitute a career education system of Chinese characteristics: centering on the career development of the university students, drawing lessons from foreign theories to determine the three steps of career education of universities students, designing the organization form and path of the career education according to the characteristics of the colleges and universities in China, helping the universities students to get the correct understanding of themselves, the occupation, the society and their relationship, enhancing the students'ability of career planning and decision-making, promote themselves in all aspects, and making them integrate the national demand and individual demand in career selection and development. |