{"id":95755,"date":"2025-06-09T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95755"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:51:57","slug":"astronaut-one-day-artist-the-next-how-to-help-children-explore-the-world-of-careers-bussewitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/06\/09\/astronaut-one-day-artist-the-next-how-to-help-children-explore-the-world-of-careers-bussewitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut one day, artist the next: How to help children explore the world of careers [Bussewitz]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/children-careers-parenting-school-college-work-9f301a32e9739d951a5f2a454b0f288a?utm_content=334366334&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin&amp;hss_channel=lcp-32853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Astronaut one day, artist the next: How to help children explore the world of careers<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from apnews.com by Cathy Bussewitz<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Sometimes career paths follow a straight line, with early life ambitions setting us on a clear path to\u00a0training or a degree\u00a0and a specific profession. Just as often, circumstance, luck, exposure and a willingness to adapt to change influence what we do for a living.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nDevelopmental\u00a0psychologists\u00a0and\u00a0career counselors\u00a0recommend exposing children to a wide variety of\u00a0career paths\u00a0at a young age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not so that they\u2019ll pick a career, but that they will realize that there\u2019s lots of opportunities and not limit themselves out of careers,\u201d said Jennifer Curry, a Louisiana State University professor who researches career and college readiness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Preparing for a world of AI<br \/>\n<\/strong>In addition to exposing children to career routes through early conversations and school courses, experts recommend teaching children about artificial intelligence and how it is reshaping the world and work.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut one day, artist the next: How to help children explore the world of careers &#8212; from apnews.com by Cathy Bussewitz Sometimes career paths follow a straight line, with early life ambitions setting us on a clear path to\u00a0training or a degree\u00a0and a specific profession. Just as often, circumstance, luck, exposure and a willingness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[867,356,387,174,343,141,419,560,279,226,855,480,293,11,852,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apprenticeships","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-career-development","category-education","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-ideas-teaching","category-parents-guardians","category-participation","category-passions","category-skills","category-society","category-sociology","category-vision-possibilities","category-vocational-trades","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95757,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95755\/revisions\/95757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}