Toward Career Competences how to support career learning Skovhus, Randi Boelskifte; Poulsen, Bo Klindt; Svarva, Randi Kristin; Buland, Trond

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1 Danish University Colleges Toward Career Competences how to support career learning Skovhus, Randi Boelskifte; Poulsen, Bo Klindt; Svarva, Randi Kristin; Buland, Trond Publication date: 2016 Link to publication Citation for pulished version (APA): Skovhus, R. B., Poulsen, B. K., Svarva, R. K., & Buland, T. (2016). Toward Career Competences: how to support career learning. Paper presented at IAEVG konference 2016, Madrid, Spain. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Download policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 01. jan

2 Gør tanke til handling VIA University College Toward Career Competences how to support career learning Randi Kristin Svarva Trond Buland Bo Klindt Poulsen Randi Boelskifte Skovhus 29. november

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4 Career learning across borders Norwegian-Danish project: - Developing inspirational booklet on how to pose learning-oriented questions in career learning and career guidance - An inspirational guide to the practitioner/the professional with concrete examples 29. november

5 A classic concept of career traditionally, hierarchichal connotations The career ladder 29. november

6 The challenge of career What do you want to be when you grow up? An honest, brave, compassionate human being! No I mean, how do you want to sell your labor? ( Existential Comics on Twitter) 29. november

7 A new career concept Career in career learning means a horizontal understanding A new etymology in guidance: the way people live their lives A broad and complex definition In light of the characteristics of (post-)modernism 29. november 2016 Between Employability and Social Justice 6

8 EU resolution of lifelong guidance (2008) guidance as referring to a continuous process that enables citizens at any age and at any point in their lives to identify their capacities, competences and interests, to make educational, training and occupational decisions and to manage their individual life paths in learning, work and other settings in which those capacities and competences are learned and/or used. Guidance covers a range of individual and collective activities relating to information-giving, counselling, competence assessment, support, and the teaching of decision-making and career management skills november

9 Definitions ELGPN definition of CMS: a range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals and groups to gather, analyse, synthesise and organise self, educational and occupational information, as well as the skills to make and implement decisions and transitions (ELGPN Resource Kit 2012, p.21) 29. november

10 Choice vs. learning In spite of the resolution and the work of ELGPN, career guidance and career learning are often seen as activities that primarily have to contribute to a choice of education, rather than activities that are contributing to career learning in a wide sense. The focus on choosing is apparent in many places: - As a focus in guidance (for instance screening) - Activities (which ones + articulation) When the pupils attribute to guidance this focus on choice, their participation in the guidance activities is influenced. 29. november

11 From choice to learning how to distinguish between the choice and the basis for the choice Of course, young people have to choose an education! But: - A focus primarily on clarification and choice rather than a broader focus on career learning creates problems in regard to the participation and engagement of young people in activities that have the potential to support the development of career competences - Competences that of course are usefull to the imminent choice of education, but also usefull in the long run (cf. for instance the resolution on lifelong learning) 29. november

12 Bill Law: What kind of learning/which skills constitute the fundamentalt basis for action e.g. to make a qualified choise? 4. Understanding working out - To know how something works and which actions seem to lead to what - To explain, to anticipate 3. Focusing checking out - To know who and what you need to pay attention to and why. - To find out what is important (to me and to others) 2. Sifting sorting out - To organize the informations in a meaningful way in order to understand differences and similarities - To compare and discover connections 1. Sensing finding out - To get impressions, informations and contacts in order to progress - To see, hear, feal 11

13 Law: Community-interaction-thinking - what is exchanged in appreciated and credible communities? Law describes the function of community-interaction and lists five central elements of exchange: Expectations the expectations and pressure among the community members Feedback the picture the individual receives of oneself in the light of the feedback she or he receives from the community Support the encouragement/drive the individual receives from the members of a community Modeling the concrete exemplification that the members of a community represent Information the experience-based information, that are communicated directly or indirectly when conversation takes place in a community 29. november

14 The challenge Perhaps the change from a focus on choice to a focus on learning isn t as simple as it may appear? In our thinking, language and ways to ask questions we often are caught by a focus on choice rather than a focus on learning. Is this something for you? 29. november

15 The task of career learning Career learning is about giving more room for reflexion. And to move the reflexion a bit away from the inside to the action context of the young. The reflexion can occur on several levels or several domains than the personal domain. Apart from the personal positions you could focus on the actions and decisions and on bringing different versions of the facts to light. 29. november

16 Karl Tomm: Question types (Karl Tomm, 1992) 29. november 2016 Bo Klindt Poulsen 15

17 Discussions and creative processes in small groups Choose a common guidance activity from your practice/a practice you know that you want to develop further in a career learning perspective Consider which learning goals you can set for the activity and how the activity can be prepared and processed with a focus on career learning and Develop questions that support career learning in the activity and that are related to the preparation, the execution and the processing of the activity - write 1 question per post-it 29. november

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