resources, articles, handbooks & pamphlets

1st January
philosophies for careers work
article - pdf (needs printing): interactive examination of philosophies of careers work - in crisis we need to be clear about such, often unspoken, assumptions - use this to develop your position on a spectrum of orientations, from post-modern to pragmatic - all are invested, day-by-day, in the ideas & materials we develop - it's time to probe what we claim - to understand why we are contested - to enlarge our professionalism - to know what directions we conscientiously can take - and must now avoid - ...and, also, to give a person a reason to get out of bed in the morning

26th September
ten propositions in search of careers-work professionalism
pamphlet - pdf: a fully-referenced defence of our professions - the personal commitment and the organisational frameworks which support it - explaining disappointment with twentieth-century progress - offering a basis for an independent new start - enlarged thinking for negotiating funding, for research-&-development & for gaining the interested attention of clients-&-students - & of partners-&-stakeholders - no more postponements of recurrent fear - a new basis for sustainable hope

20th June
bill law's three-scene storyboarding
resource - ppt: now entirely reorganised presentation - supports day-long participative workshop - key features, use in guidance & curriculum, & programme possibilities - new section on enabling questioning of narratives & on learning outcomes - designed to build a community of storyboarding practice

other recent thinking
careers-work professionalism
article html: our professionalism is at a cross-roads - cuts and stress are eroding hope and aspiration - we can do something about it - this article re-works our credibility, expertise, partnerships & impartiality - & shows how that opens up new possibilities - for our clients and students - but, first, for us - it parallels the report of the careers profession task-force

new thinking - building on what we know
resource - 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

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

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

storyboarding stockroom
resource - 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

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

other important thinking
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

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

interactive blogs,
tweets & films

23rd December
opinions on
'why is professionalism
so important to careers work?'

15th December
language and career
who cares what anybody says about careers?

21st October
five practitioner leads for the future of careers-work professionalism

18th August
2011 riots -
time for careers-work reform

9th August
who's that kid in the café?
identity and role in careers work

1st June
careers-work on the net -
the future?

14th May
crunch-time for careers-work professionalism

12th April
why don't the poor listen to us?

18th March
careers-work creativity - the fizz and the burn?

14th February
the future of careers-work professionalism?

3rd June 2011
the careers-innovation site

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