The Career-learning NETWORK to help you to … compare stories with other careers-work frameworks; develop ways of using stories in your work; evaluate the usefulness of narrative techniques. DVT 7 Forward updated 30/10/06 which way is forward? CAREER-LEARNING NARRATIVES telling, showing, mapping these ideas in ‘fewer lists, more stories’ free at - in ‘the underpinning’ this PowerPoint 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 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 > abilities – skills and achievements story > people – an inner life, conflicted list moving between DOTS and narrative... > motivation – interests and values > evidence – of achievement > learning plans – shorter- term > career plans – longer-term > 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… biog lyric diaryday in the life > telling write & perform > showing cartoon & story-board > mapping locate & mind-map

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 - 2

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

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