Audrey Collin Professor Emeritus of Career Studies
Outline of presentation • my personal perspective • the richness, rigour, and relevance of CS • the relationship between academic and personal career learning • the Lancaster model of the learning cycle • application of learning to home discipline • some ways forward
Celebrating Career Studies richness rigour relevance
Richness, rigour, and relevance • • • theory, research, practice, policy degrees of sophistication and detail range of interest recognition of and responses to change emerging issues
Relationship between academic study and personal career learning • the Lancaster model of the learning cycle
OUTER WORLD INNER WORLD Feedback Discovery Conceptualising Learner’s schema, meanings, skills, etc. Reflection Hypothesising Based on Binsted, 1980 Activity Reception of input
Application of learning to home discipline • • • context perspective underlying assumptions meaning language, ideology and rhetoric
Some ways forward • awareness of whole field – it can be seen as a system – interdependence – synergy – whole greater than the sum of its parts • need for multidisciplinarity and dialogue between perspectives (see www. careerstudies. net) • need to develop our critical thinking further (use Lancaster model? ), and so increase rigour at all levels, develop relevant new theories, methodologies, and practices • need to develop effective relationships between theorists, researchers, practitioners, policy-makers (eg encourage practitioners to engage in small-scale research)