This book is based on the Life Design paradigm and discusses the efforts made to overcome the matching paradigm between individuals and their work contexts, in order to guarantee the adoption of an active role for future career planning. Starting from the evolution of career counselling and vocational guidance in the 20th century and then following the more updated reflections in the Life Design paradigm, this book discusses research results from the Larios Laboratory (Padova, Italy) in collaboration with numerous international colleagues and institutions. These results show that career counselling and vocational designing can not only help people to plan their future in agentive ways, but also to help them getting out of the ‘mists of the present’ and to project themselves into a future that is yet to be created. This future is aligned by the world of research and international institutions, such as the UN and WHO, and follows the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with particular attention to Sustainable Development Goals 4, 8 and 12. This book reveals how trajectories can be created from one’s own mission, realized with the help of others and newly acquired strengths. It shows how career counselling and vocational designing can help people to build their own future from an inclusive and sustainable perspective, based on social justice, and to help build a better future for all.
Author(s): Laura Nota, Salvatore Soresi, Ilaria Di Maggio, Sara Santilli, Maria Cristina Ginevra
Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 117
City: Cham
Introduction
References
Contents
1 Career Counseling and Vocational Designing, from the Origins to the End of the Last Century: The Moment of Maximum Possibilities
1.1 Introduction
1.2 From the Early 1900s Until World War II and the Birth of Career Counseling and Vocational Designing
1.3 The ‘Glorious Thirty’ or Keynesian Period
1.4 The Growth and the Contribution of Career Counseling and Vocational Designing
1.5 Conclusions: Social Significance… in Favor of a Part of the World
References
2 Threats and Challenges of the XXI Century and the Role of Career Counseling and Vocational Designing
2.1 Introduction: From the Recent Past to Present Times
2.2 Neoliberal Ideological Derivations of the Present Era
2.3 And Again: Globalization, Precariousness, Competition, Financialization, Migration, Robotization, Outsourcing, Externalization, Privatization, Exploitation of Natural Resources
2.4 Inequalities
2.5 The Myths of the Current Period: Meritocracy and Self-employment
2.6 Conclusions: What About Career Counseling and Vocational Designing? Could They Be a Tool for a ‘Rainbow New Deal’?
References
3 Life Designing for an Inclusive, Sustainable and Equitable Future
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Complexity in Career Counseling and in Professional Designing
3.3 The Life Design International Research Group
3.4 Towards Life Design Processes in Order to Build Inclusive and Sustainable Futures
3.5 Inclusion and Sustainability to Build the Future
3.6 Rediscovering Social Justice
3.7 Conclusions
References
4 New Dimensions Instruments for An Inclusive Sustainable Career Counseling
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Cosmopolitanism
4.3 Curiosity and Imagination
4.4 Courage
4.5 Activism for Our Future
4.6 Conclusions: Acting and Demonstrating for an Inclusive, Sustainable and Socially Just Future
References
5 The Project “Stay Inclusive, Sustainable, Curious, Cosmopolitan, Aspirant, Etc.” : An Example of Operational Paths and Trajectories
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Give a Voice to People and Promote Inclusive and Sustainable ‘Aspirations’ Towards the Future
5.3 Today’s Adolescents and the Necessity to Encourage Aspirations Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future
5.4 Career Counseling and Vocational Designing Workshops
5.5 The Project “Stay Inclusive, Sustainable, Curious, Cosmopolitan, Aspirant”
5.6 Doing Basic Workshops with High School Students
5.7 Conclusions
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
First Section: Scientific and Social Relevance of Guidance, Career Counselling, and Support for Career Inclusion Services
Second Section: Training, Abilities, and Quality of Guidance, Career Counselling, and Support for Career Inclusion Services
Third Section: Efficacy Assessment of Programs and Interventions Regarding Guidance, Career Counselling, and Support for Career Designing and Inclusion
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
