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OPEN-SOURCE MATERIAL - Café material is freely available for you to use in your own work and in your organisation. This is a developing trend, and - now - you can download and adapt html and PowerPoint material for use in your own work. Bill asks that you (1) acknowledge www.hihohiho.com as the source, and (2) let him know what you are doing and what your are learning from it. A more developed version of these possibilities now relates to the café work on the uses of narrative. PowerPoint support for this is an animated version of a story-boarding technique. The pdf version of the material shows how to do download and adapt the graphics. Get the PowerPoint. Get the pdf. Tell Bill how you are getting on with it.
PARTNERSHIP ISSUES - Policy initiatives in all sectors increasingly
call on teachers and advisers to work with social and youth workers
and with voluntary helpers. Can we do it without sharing ideas? The Café magazine has series of articles setting out ideas as a basis for negotiating what we can do together. The articles also show how these ideas respond to Youth Matters and Next Steps. And they draw heavily on what we need to understand about what is going on in our societies - now. Search the list of articles.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS - Government says it wants evidence-based practice. But, but under accountability pressure from government, much recent research has spoken more of our overall impact than of diagnosing our strengths and weaknesses. We need more diagnostic research. If practice is to be evidence-based, then evidence must be practice-based. The café's magazine section argues the case. It also looks to the The National Guidance Research Forum - as a platform for a
fruitful partnership between research and practice. Examine the argument.
INTERACTIVE THINKING - If your long-ago ancestors had not bothered to re-invent the wheel, you would now be seriously bogged down. Take the hint from your inventive predecessors: different terrains, faster speeds, more demanding loads - you need new wheels! Engaging in re-invention calls on your own thinking, rather than something you pull off-the-shelf. The magazine section of the Café has interactive materials that call up that thinking. Each takes you through a process of seeking out the dominant patterns in your appreciation of your work. They are called ‘Games for Career’ – but these games you play with a purpose.
LEARNING BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE - We need to understand more about how expert help
is interleaved with what learners get from direct-and-personal
experience. One of the Café's monographs examines
how and why this is so. It works from a distinction between labour-market information
and labour-market experience. It tracks through the implications
for new practice –
especially in mentoring and experience-of-work. And it
points to the need for local network-management
in careers work. It is called Learning from Experience - another pdf in the Café's underpinning section - supporting your work on the implementation of Youth Matters and Next Steps.
A PowerPoint is
also available. This line of thinking has been extended in Careers Education and Guidance - Out of the Box. It examines so-far untapped thinking about how people learn from their background culture and develops ideas about for we now need to do to help them. It also sets out and analysis of cultural change in contemporary society and its consequences for how people learn for careers management. A PowerPoint is also available.
POLICY ISSUES - The ideas set out in Youth Matters and Next Steps will influence our work for the foreseeable future. There is plenty to think through in turning these ideas into sustainable practice. The Café's underpinning section has a series of pdfs laying out the issues. Some are based on important conferences - engaging policy people with professional people from careers work, as well as from a wide range of community-based agencies. The monographs are: Integrating
Information, Advice and Guidance, Youth
in the Community and Youth Matters. A fourth in the series examines Youth Matters and also comments on some of the guidance-based reactions to it. It is called New
Start for Connexions. There is also an account of the 2007 Qualification and Curriculum Authority review of curriculum, which is closely coordinated with Youth Matters. And you can get Bill's contribution to QCA thinking - LiRRiC - life-role relevance in curriculum. and a supporting PowerPoint.
STAFF-DEVELOPMENT MATERIAL - You can use Café Powerpoints with partners,
colleagues and learners. You can also adapt them to suit your
work. Having them here
also helps course and conference-participants who want to get
hold of the visuals. All PowerPoints carry front-page guidance –
including where you and your people can find a fuller account of the ideas
they present. Take a look at the PowerPoint menu.
NEW MODEL - 'What are we going to do about careers?' is the big question posed by a Café project, launched
in 2005. The project's ideas-for-action are based on the up-to-date
'coverage-processes-influences' (CPI) model for careers work. These three dimensions give you more clues about what is going on, what might be going wrong, and what can be made to go better. Find out about the CPI project.
THINKING PRACTICE - There is nothing so practical as a good theory. The Café makes the point with a series of practical handbooks in the magazine section.
Some develop the on-the-ground implications of the new CPI model (see above). The first three handbooks - on (1) ‘relevance’,
(2) ‘progression’ and (3) ‘learning outcomes’- follow lines suggested by that model's three dimensions. There are other handbooks - all in the magazine section. This material has been much-used since it was first up-loaded in 2002. Examine the full list of practical handbooks.
NARRATIVE METHODS - Story telling is an increasingly important concept in our work. It is a frame of reference which can be shared by staff-development people, school-and-college-based programme managers, researchers, social-and-youth workers and policy people. And Youth Matters and Next Steps require that we all work together. The CPI model (see above) - and, in particular, its insistence on the importance of learning from experience - unmistakably suggests that this thinking must include an important place for narrative. And so the Café's magazine section has always feature accounts of career development in narrative terms. You'll find ethnography, biography, journalism there. Take a look at the Real Lives menu.
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