which way is forward CAREERLEARNING NARRATIVES telling showing

which way is forward? CAREER-LEARNING NARRATIVES telling, showing, mapping to help you to … DVT 7 Forward updated 30/10/06 compare stories with other careerswork frameworks; develop ways of using stories in your work; evaluate the usefulness of narrative techniques. The Career-learning NETWORK www. hiho. com these ideas in ‘fewer lists, more stories’ free at www. hiho. com in ‘the underpinning’ this Power. Point at the same url in ‘the magazine’ (in touch) _____ handouts: print in fine colour/ copy in grey-scale

for example can we help Karen? . . . ‘. . . sitting with her back to the lift-shaft wall, listless, aimless, hopeless. . . She has not been to school regularly since she was 11, and she is now 14. . . she has lost sight of normal life. She says there is no food in the house, and to feed her sisters as well herself she would go and borrow money off friends or eat at someone else's house or steal things from shops or scavenge in rubbish bins. They have no light or heat in the house. Her mum and dad just do drugs and watch time go by. . . So why does she not want to sit in school? Because she is too sure there is no point. . . ’ Nick Davies: The School Report

frameworks for help moving between DOTS and narrative. . . list > abilities – skills and achievements > motivation – interests and values > evidence – of achievement > learning plans – shorterterm > career plans – longer-term story > people – an inner life, conflicted > settings - with their tasks and other people > talking – with others and in inner life > events – one thing leading to another > meaning – pointing to purpose

using stories in your work - 1 story forms - for other people’s stories, and my own… > telling write & perform > showing cartoon & story-board > mapping locate & mind-map diary biog lyric day in the life

using stories in your work - 2 rounding-out the story… > people you, me & them > settings scenes, locations and roles > talking conversation & soliloquy > events episodes & turning points > meaning finding a theme & purpose

using stories in your work - 3 who needs to know? . . . < first-party help formative-action < second-party help diagnostic-enable < third-party help referral-selection

any hope here? helps you to …. . . compare stories with other careerswork frameworks? yes/no . . . develop ways of using stories in your work? yes/no . . . evaluate the usefulness of narrative techniques? yes/no if ‘yes’ - glad it’s been useful if ‘no’ - you could tell Bill why at www. hiho. com check it out at www. hiho. com/… in LMI: moving to ‘LME’ - ‘E’ for experience thinking: experience and its narratives this Power. Point: discuss it with others …/underpinning/caffutures. pdf …/underpinning/cafbiog. pdf …/magazine/features/cafbiogpract. ppt