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Options for future school-

based careers work

Tristram Hooleywww.derby.ac.uk/icegs
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What Im going to do

A summary of the evidence around school based careerswork largely from Fostering College and Career

Readiness.

Some ideas about what constitutes good/effective

practice largely from Careers 2020. A modest proposal.

Im not going to talk about the current policy bunfightphew!

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Fostering College and Career Readiness

Funded by Career Cruising Written by Tristram Hooley,

John Marriott & Jim

Sampson

Published in 2011 Detailed literature review to

explore what evidence

there is that school based

careers work has anyimpact.



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The evidence

The evidence for career development is stronger inschools than anywhere else. More studies

More quantitative studies

The evidence base is dominated by US studies.

The best evidence is around the comprehensive

guidance programme whole school model.

We could do with better evidence (quantitative,

longitudinal, randomised control trials etc.) Also more on

the impact of technology in career development.



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What does it say?

There is evidence that school based career developmentprogrammes:

1. Retains young people in the education system.

2. Has a positive impact on their academic achievement

3. Supports their transitions to further learning and thelabour market

4. Contributes to their career and life success.



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Careers 2020

Funded by Pearson Written by Tristram Hooley,

John Marriott, Tony Watts &

Louis Coffait

Published in 2012 Literature review and

conceptual development.



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What happens



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Different models

Activity-based

Service-based

Curriculum-led


The evidence points to this approach.

The quality awards drive schools towards this

Of course this requires major

thinking of the curriculum

approach in schools if its

impact is to be maximised


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A modest proposal



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The foundation

We are homo sapiens. Learning does not require aparticular structure or institution it is the essence of

being human.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be

kindled. Plutarch

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him

find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

All of the techniques that we have (classroom talks,

experiential learning, person-centred counselling) are just

ways of helping this learning to happen.



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The purpose

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating

men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply

repeating what other generations have done; men and women who

are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify,

and not accept, everything they are offered. Jean Piaget

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John

Dewey

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate

integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present

system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of

freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and

creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the

transformation of their world. Paulo Freire



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So why career?

Career is about you and your current and future place inthe world.

Career is a carrier of curriculum and aspiration.

Career is about the actualisation of the self.

Career is about committing to lifelong learning.

Career is about living within the world, understanding it

and even about transforming it.



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So what about that proposal

Career should be at the core of the education system.

But, I can see no reason to pre-judge how career should

be best learnt.

So why the focus on guidance (AKA one-to-one careers

advice)?



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Tristram Hooley

Reader in Career DevelopmentInternational Centre for Guidance Studies

University of Derby

http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

[email protected]@pigironjoe

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