1. 2nd Forum Internazionale dell’ Orientamento, Genova, 12-13 Novembre, 2009 Workplace Guidance: Guidance Corners and Educational Ambassadors in Denmark by Peter Plant, PhD, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen

2. Small? Denmark seen from foreign land Looks like but a grain of sand Denmark seen from foreign land Looks like but a grain of sand Denmark as we Danes conceive it Is so big you won’t believe it Therefore let us compromise About Denmark’s proper size Which will truly please us all Since it’s greater than it’s small

3. Workplace Guidance: Out of office

4. Set in brick or vitual? House of Guidance & IT

5. Or with people – at work

6. Workplace Guidance Helsinki Award, 2006: best EU/LdV guidance project Promoted by Starfsafl LdV- project on Vocational Guidance for Lower-Paid Workers www.gla.ac.uk/wg DK- examples: http://www.gla.ac.uk/wg/danconte.htmhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/wg/danconte.htm

7. WG Partners Iceland – Promoter Czech Republic Denmark Finland Italy Luxemburg Norway Spain Sweden United Kingdom

8. What is guidance? Guidance activities Information on available learning and occupational opportunities Assessment of an individual's educational needs Advice on a range of suitable learning opportunities Counselling to deal with barriers such as low self-confidence or self- esteem Placement (e.g. in experience in firms or taster courses) Referral to learning providers or other types of agency, for example, ones dealing with social benefits Advocacy, by representing the individual Feedback to learning providers, for example, on the kinds of learning opportunity needed but not currently available Follow-up, to discover the effects of guidance

9. Workplace Guidance: What do we know for sure? Guidance & counselling are fluffy concepts It matters to get close: IN the workplace People not systems vs people AND systems Peer guidance with professional backup Time in the workplace: industrial agreement

10. In the workplace from photographic reportages of www.vejlederforum.dkwww.vejlederforum.dk

11. Guidance Corner in the workplace

12. Informal AND formal guidance

13. Outgoing: outreach guidance & SMS

14. Simple guidance tools Competence display in the lunch-break room: Red = NO, don’t want to do this or learn Yellow = might do and will learn Green = can do and will teach others

15. Using metaphors in guidance about work – á Islandi ’My work is a whitch’ ’What does she say?’, She tells to shape up, be on time and clean up’ ’What do you say, then?’ ’I tell her to shut up’

16. Which guidance topics? Vocational training General adult education Leisure activities & links with work Personal & workplace development Accreditation of prior learning Job-rotation CV / job-application & self-presentation

17. In the workplace? Guidance corners Learning advisors Educational ambassadors Trade union representatives Guidance experts

18. Transfer: Adult guidance DK EUR 17 mill (2008-2009): 22 networks/research/ workplace guidance/learning advisors

19. Iceland 10 lifelong learning and guidance centres Educationals funds/industrial agreement Profesional counsellors: outreach Inspiration: Workplace Guidance project

20. Contact & references Prof Peter Plant, PhD Guidance Research Unit Danish University of Education Tuborgvej 164 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark pepl@dpu.dk Refs: Plant, P. & Turner, R. (2005). Getting closer: workplace guidance for lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 24:2, 123-135 Plant, P. (2008). On the shopfloor: guidance in the workplace. Athanasou, J. & Esbroek, R.V. (eds) (2008). International Handbook of Career Guidance. London: Springer

21. Careers My dad is a baker, his taste is the best in muffins and cakes And I am his aid, a real bunny maid I’ve got what it takes My career is in baking, it’s not my intent I’d rather be seen in a big circus tent

22. Careers II My mom has a circus, an oldfashioned one with horses and clowns I swing the trapeze, I sell candy and sweets, yell announcements in towns But the ring is no good place for me when instead I’d much rather that my career was in bread