Full Description
First Published in 2004. The provision of effective career guidance has been presented as the answer to economic and social problems in young people, and has been seen by governments around the world as essential in ensuring economic competitiveness and prosperity. Policy discussions have centred on individuals' development of 'self-managed' careers within a global labour market, placing employability skills above all other concerns. This book goes beyond the rhetoric of careers guidance by exploring it from critical and radical standpoints. The contributors question the economic underpinning that has driven social inclusion agendas around the globe, arguing that career education and guidance needs to place greater emphasis on approaches that have a greater social awareness and within a global context. They discuss career guidance in consideration of a range of issues including social class, 'race' and gender and raise questions about the implications for policy and practice. Essential reading for students, researchers and academics and practitioners involved with careers education, this book will help the reader to improve their practice through a greater understanding of the theories and social and economic contexts involved
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Social justice: a context for career education and guidance 3. Welfare to Work: economic challenges to socially just career practice 2. Liberté? Futilite? Autonome! Careers education as an emancipatory activity 3. Cultural diversity and guidance: myth or reality? 6. Career education for Muslim girls: meeting culture at the crossroads 7. (En)gendering socially just approaches to career guidance 8. Women, work and career development: equal employment opportunities or employment equity? 9. The career education curriculum and children with disabilities 10. Social Class, opportunity structures and career guidance 11. Working with youth at risk of exclusion 12. Social justice and equality of opportunity for Mexican young people 13. Beyond the toolbox: integrating multicultural principles into a career guidance intervention model 14. Challenging careers: perspectives from auto/biographical research
