Careers Education takes a critical look at policy and practice in the context of the new role of the privatized Careers, Education and Guidance Service. Suzy Harris places the present situation within the context of subordination to market principles; delineates the changing and uncertain relationship between schools and the Careers Service; shows how the politics of curriculum relevance marginalizes careers teaching; describes the downward path to complete exclusion from The National Curriculum and points the way for policymakers to eschew rhetoric and rebuild the Careers Service This book will be an essential resource to help careers and guidance practitioners make sense of their situation, for students and researc
Author(s): Dr Suzy Harris
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 160
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 - Introduction: Contested Careers......Page 12
2 - A View from the Inside......Page 28
3 - Schooling Careers Education......Page 45
4 - Becoming Relevant......Page 64
5 - Whose Role, What Role?......Page 83
6 - Reconstructing Education, Deconstructing Careers......Page 98
7 - Competing Careers?......Page 117
8 - Reconstructing Marginal Careers......Page 139
Key Dates in Careers Education and Guidance......Page 149
Index......Page 159
