A growing body of evidence supports critical consciousness as a developmental asset for young people, including its benefits for educational and vocational outcomes. National dynamics and policies in the U.S., such as restricting immigration and asylum, have raised the salience of critical consciousness as a protective factor for the career development of Latinx immigrant youth. In this manuscript, we first review the nature and benefits of critical consciousness for Latinx immigrant youth. We then highlight how college and career readiness (CCR) and the components of critical consciousness (CC) can be simultaneously fostered among Latinx immigrant high school students, drawing upon our own work in the context of an afterschool program. We introduce a framework to illustrate this integration, and describe a series of intervention activities and processes designed to simultaneously build CC and CCR. Finally, we provide recommendations and describe caveats and challenges to developing classroom-based career education curricula that integrate CCR and CC.

越来越多的证据支持批判意识作为年轻人的发展资产，包括它对教育和职业成果的好处。美国的国家动态和政策，例如限制移民和庇护，已经提高了批判意识的显着性，将其作为拉丁裔移民青年职业发展的保护因素。在本手稿中，我们首先回顾一下拉丁裔移民青年的批判意识的性质和益处。然后，我们重点介绍如何在课余计划的背景下，根据我们自己的工作，在拉丁裔移民的高中学生中同时培养大学和职业准备（CCR）和批判意识（CC）的组成部分。我们引入一个框架来说明这种集成，并描述了旨在同时构建CC和CCR的一系列干预活动和过程。最后，我们提供建议并描述开发基于CCR和CC的基于课堂的职业教育课程的注意事项和挑战。