Constructing the Future: career guidance for changing contexts

Dr Hazel Reid, editor of this current issue of the research journal, observes that changing contexts for career guidance bring uncertainty but also the potential to innovate. Each paper provides examples of how researchers and practitioners are responding to and leading change within the contexts of their work. The eight papers in Constructing the Future are:

1 Career learning and development: a bridge to the future
Barbara Bassot
2 Client narratives, language and motivation
Peter Beven
3 Age and stage: guidance for older adults
Lyn Barham and Ruth Hawthorn
4 The courage of confidence: the role of faith in career choice
Liane Hambley
5 More questions than answers: the role of practitioner research in professional practice
Siobhan Neary and Jo Hutchinson
6 First year medical students’ perceptions of a career in medicine – how can these inform careers support?
Simon Watmough, Christine Waddelove and Louise Jaeger
7 Effective group work with young people: delivering personal learning and development in the guidance group context
Jane Westergaard
8 Using ICT: a step change in career guidance or a sop to the twittering classes?
Anthony Barnes and Nelica La Gro

Download the papers at http://www.icg-uk.org/constructingthefuture_v.html