Bill Law's
career-learning café
supporting careers education, guidance, pshe, personal & economic well-being, citizenship & Connexions - all aspects of careers work

last update - 1st July 2009


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café careers magazine

getting to grips with career issues in today's world
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the underpinning

thinking & research supporting useful action
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how we got here & what we should not forget
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moving on

new & useful ideas for building the future

updated 1st July
partnerships for learning
on the management of economic & personal well-being in the curriculum - an interactive pack supporting coordinators - on the issues, the opportunities & the action

25th March
mentoring - an unfulfilled promise
pulls together findings from evaluations of mentoring - based on what students, teachers, mentors & managers say - finds incoherent thinking & a lack of engagement in the issues - a Dutch study which learns from not-good news - sets out terms for useful programmes in the UK

16th February
careers-work crunch

we are well placed to enable people to deal with the uncertainties of crunch economics - but we need to expand our expertise - & this is the biggest challenge to our creativity we've ever faced - way beyond current thinking & practice

recent
using storyboards

sets out the group work & individual process of learning from narrative - a practical manual - incorporates worked examples showing how it works & why it is useful - also points to uses in evaluation & research

changing metaphors for careers work
was Spike Milligan right? - & is it Back to the Future?
..time for another look at
The Metaphors We Live By 

relocating careers work in curriculum
people never more needed to know what is going on - & to work out what to do about it - we know tick-box methods & cut-&-paste learning don't help - so what does?

Bill's contribution to the debate on
the future of curriculum
on the NESTA site
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