1. The Challenge of Career Studies

2. Audrey Collin Professor Emeritus of Career Studies

3. 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

4. Celebrating Career Studies
richness
rigour
relevance

5. Richness, rigour, and relevance
theory, research, practice, policy
degrees of sophistication and detail
range of interest
recognition of and responses to change
emerging issues

6. Relationship between academic study and personal career learning
the Lancaster model of the learning cycle

7. Discovery Reception of input Reflection INNER WORLD OUTER WORLD
Feedback
Discovery
Conceptualising
Learner’s
schema,
meanings,
skills, etc.
Activity
Reception
of input
Reflection
Hypothesising
Based on Binsted, 1980

8. Application of learning to home discipline
context
perspective
underlying assumptions
meaning
language, ideology and rhetoric

9. 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
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)