Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice by Suzy Harris

By Suzy Harris

Careers schooling takes a severe examine coverage and perform within the context of the hot function of the privatized Careers, schooling and assistance provider. Suzy Harris areas the current scenario in the context of subordination to industry ideas; delineates the altering and unsure dating among faculties and the Careers provider; exhibits how the politics of curriculum relevance marginalizes careers instructing; describes the downward route to entire exclusion from The nationwide Curriculum and issues the best way for policymakers to eschew rhetoric and rebuild the Careers carrier This publication can be a necessary source to assist careers and suggestions practitioners make feel in their scenario, for college kids and researc

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By Suzy Harris

Careers schooling takes a severe examine coverage and perform within the context of the hot function of the privatized Careers, schooling and assistance provider. Suzy Harris areas the current scenario in the context of subordination to industry ideas; delineates the altering and unsure dating among faculties and the Careers provider; exhibits how the politics of curriculum relevance marginalizes careers instructing; describes the downward route to entire exclusion from The nationwide Curriculum and issues the best way for policymakers to eschew rhetoric and rebuild the Careers carrier This publication can be a necessary source to assist careers and suggestions practitioners make feel in their scenario, for college kids and researc

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Both headteacher and deputy head were trained counsellors and firmly believed in the import­ ance of the pastoral curriculum, as the latter explained: Careers education should be about personal educational vocational guidance in its broadest terms. . This is very hard to achieve in school because teachers find it difficult, but that is the ideal. . You cannot split the pastoral and educational side of schooling. 27 Careers Education Mr Adams had been able to impose his style of careers education both because it reflected the management's views and because he had set up careers from scratch as soon as he had arrived at the school.

They got rid of the ROSLA Unit, rightly so in my opinion, and integrated children into the school. The head of the ROSLA Unit got the post of head of careers . . He worked on his own for a year and then it was decided that he needed an assistant because the department was getting bigger, and he asked for me. I accepted because the things I learned in my first couple of years teaching and the Youth Leadership course that I'd done had required a specific type of approach to kids, which was not the formal approach.

Mr Roberts Senior Teacher Southview NG Science 23 yrs IV 1 �. Mr Law Scale 3 Walker NG Maths/PE 21 yrs IV 1 Mr Carter Deputy Head Lawside SG History 14 yrs III 3 Mr Woods Scale 4 Charlton EG Geography 15 yrs III 2 Ms Saunders Scale 2 Hilton NG History 6 yrs II 1 () � �. "

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