sources, articles, handbooks & pamphlets
1st September
new thinking - building on what we know
source - html: pressure on work-life intensifies & people revise their attitudes - change for them means change for us - this section up-dates & re-aligns community-interaction & career-learning theory - re-examines the original papers - probes their application to a globalised economy & its use of information technology - probes new ideas for careers-work action
30th August
career-learning thinking for contemporary working life
pamphlet - pdf: research-and-development updating career-learning theory - for a life-long life-wide strategy - in contemporary conditions and for emerging purposes - takes on current work for 'critical thinking' and 'mindfulness' - probes the future for information-advice-and-guidance and for careers education - looks to innovative careers-work partnerships in 'the big society' - with a handout on neglected questions
22nd August
career learning on the net - colonise or inhabit?
pamphlet - pdf: information-based account of an ict opportunity we mustn’t miss - not to ‘colonise’ the net with conventional careers-work thinking - but to engage users in critical thinking - probing and interrogating all that they can now find - it means ‘inhabiting’ the net as partners - people don't need you to be a technology whiz - they need your understanding of how people learn for career management
30th April
storyboarding stockroom
source - html: the main location for storyboarding - a narrative technique - useful in face-to-face work & curriculum - fuller & more dynamic than worksheets - thought-and-feeling, words-and-pictures, socially-set portrayal of life’s turning-points - & where they can lead
27th April
why storyboarding works
source - html: worked examples of storyboarding - how storyboarding works in practice & in research - why we cannot afford to ignore the uses of narrative - how we have evolved to understand things in narrative terms - how our culture makes stories a dominant means of communication
31st March
storyboarding in curriculum
source - html: what you need for using storyboarding in curriculum - timetable links - why class-work is important - scheme-of-work to grasp the essentials - a system for developing your own schemes
storyboarding material
source - html: the storyboarding graphic material - download as jpgs - in four sections - 1. ‘making your story interesting’ - 2. ‘remembering what matters’ - 3. ‘showing so that people understand’ - & 4. 'futuring that makes things happen’
more on storyboarding
narrative-based websites
source - html: on-line labour-market experience - in narrative form - consider what it can and can't do - see how to develop what narrative does best - & to work with what it can't do
storyboarding - the overview
handbook - pdf: the basic guide to storyboarding - explaining this narrative technique - how students & clients use it - how it enables reflection on what's going on - & on figuring out what they can do about it - lists all the links to what's available
recent
community interaction - and its importance for contemporary careers work
pamphlet - pdf: how people work with, for, and in response to other people - community influence is informal - but its effects are radical - republishes Bill’s original community-interaction article - with a new commentary - because, these days, we also work with virtual communities
images, ideas, realities - and the uses of career metaphors
handbook - pdf: examines career-image branding & why it is so pervasive - the two most prevalent images are for positioning as though in a race, and for travelling as though on a journey - such images both expand & limit our horizons - they impact our research and our inventiveness
important
a fair chance in life
article - html: reviewing a cabinet-office report setting out the unfairness in Britain’s opportunity structure - we have a natural interest - but, if we are serious about this, we must re-think the models we use - this article examines why - & what you can do about it
low-carbon careers
article - html: suggesting that 'impartial information' is not that impartial - it ignores the carbon footprint of work - lmi needs re-framing - it would that make your programmes even more credible - a review of Ken Webster's Sense and Sustainability - important book signposting much of what we now need to do
relocating careers work in curriculum
pamphlet - pdf: arguing that there was never a time when people needed more to know what is going on... & what to do about it - calls for self-propelled learning through 'finding out', 'sorting out' & 'checking out' - &, then 'figuring out' what to do for a fulfilling and sustainable life - tick-box methods and cut-and-paste learning can’t do this - so what can?
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