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Its all over now baby blueWhats a career researcher to do?
Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)
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Can university and NGO basedresearchers serve in the role of
Gramscis organic intellectuals during
periods of neo-liberal onslaughtagainst career education and
guidance?
Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)
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Why bother with policy?
If you are interested in career guidance as a way ofsupporting rich and powerful people to optimise their
talents and become more rich and powerful then you can
afford to ignore policy.
If you are interested in career guidance an engine ofsocial mobility and social equity then public policy
questions are of critical importance.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in
various ways; the point is to change it. (Marx, 1845)
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Career guidance policy is political
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Public provision
of careerguidance
Public education
Access to vocational and higher
education
Full employment
Income inequality
Labour planning
Welfare to work
Skills
Youth policy
Employment law
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My context
The UK/English Government: promised an all-age careers service and has not
delivered.
transferred responsibility for career guidance to schools.
removed the requirement for career education and work-related learning.
allowed Connexions to collapse as a national service.
launched a new National Careers Service (for adults) with
almost no new investment.
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Armageddon and my self interest
I run the risk of being an expert in something
that no longer exists
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Against the gloom
What can you do? Ignore it
Critique it (from the
vantage point of the Ivory
Tower) Try and do something
about it
Start looking for other jobs
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What is an appropriate role?
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Describing
Scrutinising
Connecting to evidence
Offering solutions
Linking to the big picture
Providing vision
Publ ic is ing and agi tating
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Dangers
Time Believing that things only change through policymakers
actions
The lure of the technocracy
Collusion and flattery
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What would Antonio Gramsci say?
All men are intellectuals, but not allmen have in society the function of
intellectuals.
One must speak for a struggle for anew culture, that is, for a new moral
life that cannot but be intimately
connected to a new intuition of life,
until it becomes a new way of feeling
and seeing reality.
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How is policy changed?
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Lindquists (1990) model
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Policy
makers
Knowledge
brokersAcademics
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Change actors in career guidance policy
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Career guidance practice
Career guidance policy
Government
Knowledge
brokers
Trade unionsProfessional
associationsSchools
organisationsEmployers
Me
dia
Intelle
ctuals
Etc.
Publico
pinion
Civil society
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Example: Connexions research
Timely Relevant
Involved key stakeholders
(Unision, the professional
bodies) Passed it to MPs/politicians
Continued to make use of it
after it was published.
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In conclusion
Researchers are not in the business of makingmanifestos.
But neither can they, or should they stand outside of
policy and politics.
For career guidance it is vital that we continue to play therole of supporting change both through engaging with
policy makers directly and with other actors in the policy
process.
This probably means taking sides at least some of the
time.
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References
Lindquist, E.A. 1990. The Third Community, Policy Inquiry, and Social
Scientists. In Brooks, S. & Gagnon, A.-G (Eds). Social Scientists,
Policy and the State. New York: Praeger.
Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York:
International Publishers.
Hooley, T. and Watts, A.G. (2011). Careers Work with Young People:Collapse or Transition? Derby: International Centre for Guidance
Studies, University of Derby.
Marx, K (1845) Theses on Feuerbach. Available from
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/original.htm
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Tristram Hooley
Reader in Career DevelopmentInternational Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
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