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The
'coverage-processes-influences' (CPI) model |
CPI
assembles contemporary research into a coherent model. It signposts key factors in career development
and the relationships between them. It can,
therefore, describe what is going on in contemporary career,
and suggest what
more can be done to help. Examine the CPI materials by clicking on 'go' on the right. Earlier thinking, on which CPI is based, is set out and referenced in the memory section - in New Thinking for Careers Work and Connexions.
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Mentoring -
an unfulfilled promise |
Frans Meijers carefully pulls together the findings from evaluations of mentoring in Dutch technical schools. His findings are based on what students, teachers, mentors, and programme managers say. Frans finds a lack of coherent thinking on the purposes and possibilities for this work. He also finds a lack of any attempt on the part of management to engage with on-the-ground people concerning the issues it raises. There is no reason to suppose that is a Dutch, and not also a British, problem. But Frans knows how to learn from bad news, and his report sets out the terms on which a useful planning programme can be set up - posing six well-aimed questions. |
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| Learning
from experience |
Examines
the way in which expert help is interleaved with what learners
get from direct-and-personal experience. Develops the implications by contrasting labour-market information with labour-market
experience. Tracks the implications for practice
by looking again at programme development – especially
mentoring and experience-of-work programmes. Leads to a call for local network management
in careers work. Important the well-being curriculum and the implementation of Youth Matters. |
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Fewer
lists
more stories |
An
update of an earlier Café piece, Too Many Lists and
Not Enough Stories, on the uses of narrative in careers
work. This version includes more quotations from useful
published biography. Argues that we need the same kind of
thoroughness in narrative thinking that we once devoted to the
DOTS analysis. It is a companion pdf to Learning from
Experience because experience can only be
set out in story form. |
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Careers education and guidance -
out of the box |
Explains why careers work gets less policy and media attention than it deserves. Suggests that we need now to ‘look wider’, ‘think again’, ‘earn credibility’, ‘push boundaries’ and ‘keep-up’. The monograph examines untapped thinking about how people learn. It uses the analysis to point to today's influences on the lives of our students and clients. And it develops ideas about for we now need to do to help them. |
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What LiRRiC means
for careers work |
Based on Bill’s thinking for the QCA in the run-up to the current curriculum reform. This shorter version looks at the implications for careers education and guidance. The core proposal is for ‘LiRRiC’ – life-role relevance in curriculum. Shows how careers education and guidance can be taken off the edge of timetable, integrated with the whole curriculum without losing its distinctiveness, and become a key player in on-going curriculum reform. Click 'go' on the right to get this version. The full report LiRRiC: Life-role relevance in curriculum is in the moving-on section. |
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National Guidance Research Forum - and the future of research |
The NGRF website is where we can
make a start on the overdue task of linking practitioner knowledge
to systematic research. This
Café article outlines the main features of the site. It also
addresses issues raised for the relationship between research
and practice. |
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Career
policy for the contemporary world - dictat or stimulant?
Frans
Meijers
The Netherlands |
About the relationship between policy and profession. Frans confronts the issue head on -
posing the question ‘where is the innovative edge?’. He looks
beyond the ‘strong-leader’ model of government involvement,
towards a more cooperative concept. Frans is one of the few commentators in this
field who can combine an appreciation of change in contemporary working
life with a deep understanding of professional and policy processes. |
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New
start for Connexions - in 'Youth Matters'
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A fully-referenced
examination of the extended
partnerships for careers work now on offer. It examines both
curriculum and community-wide aspects of the proposals. It highlights
the opportunities to develop a credible, accessible and relevant
service - with life-long potential. And it points to the challenge
of all this to careers-work creativity. |
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| Integrated
information advice and guidance - 14-19 and beyond |
An
account of an important National Youth Agency conference. It
addresses critical issues raised by current debates around curriculum and by Youth Matters. It sets out the case for integration, and the opposing
case for established partnerships. Youth Matters stands
or falls on the validity of these arguments. Read direct quotes
of what is said on all sides of the issues. |
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| Youth
in the Community |
Another
directly-reported account, this time on youth work, children’s
trusts, extended schools, volunteering and active citizenship. It examines
the future of these services and the methods and benefits of
consulting young people on their delivery. This account covers
the policy context, the learning needs addressed, the impact
of provider attitudes and the importance of local organisation. |
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| Youth
Matters - the future of IAG services for young people |
Another conference report helping you work on your implementation of current initiatives. With
well-informed accounts of children’s trusts, strategic
partnerships. devolved commissioning, quality standards, involvement
by parents and young people, and the learning needs of all young
people. |
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