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Proposing an Emancipatory Model for Vocational Guidance

IAEVG International Conference Jyväskylä, Finland, June 3-5, 2009 Jean-Jacques Ruppert and Bernd-Joachim Ertelt

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4 priority areas

• to encourage the lifelong acquisition of career

management skills

• to facilitate the access to guidance services for all citizens
• to develop the quality assurance of guidance provision
• to encourage coordination and cooperation among the

various national, regional and local stakeholders

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career management skills

• learning about the economic environment, businesses

and occupations

• being able to evaluate oneself, knowing oneself and being

able to describe the competences one has acquired in formal, informal and non-formal education settings

• understanding education, training and qualification

systems

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traits of information overload

• specific information has to be increasingly “visible” in
• rder to compete effectively with other sources
• the informee’s interest in information decreases to the

point where he/she may even develop a defensive attitude towards new information

• the importance of pictorial communication increases as

the attractiveness of verbal expression decreases

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demand-orientation systems allow users:

• to define their needs
• to select sources that lead to desired results
• to obtain information on how to use the sources relevant

to their needs

• to realise when personal assistance by a guidance

counsellor is necessary

• to use only those links that provide ‘effective’ assistance

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effective information marketing

• What type of information to provide to different clients

and target groups?

• How and in which order to communicate this

information?

• When should a career counsellor intervene?
• What resources are required for effective information

marketing?

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people’s relationship to work and missions of guidance

• pre-established order: there is a suitable job for

everybody support in realising or ‘restoring’ this harmonious design

• man has needs and values regarding his professional

development must take those needs and values into account

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people’s relationship to work and missions of guidance

• personal development

enable the individual to use his professional activity as a means to develop his personality

• “work alienates man”

should minimise that alienation

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evolution of research issues

• “How to match individuals and occupations?”
• “How to match individuals and working sets?”
• “What are the factors and processes involved in life-

long career adaptation and development?”

• J. Guichard, 2009

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evolution of research issues

• “What are the factors and processes in the development of

future intentions and prospects in young people?”

• “What are the factors and processes implicated in the

development,the taking of stock and transfer of competences?”

• “What are the factors and processes at stake in psycho-

social transitions?”

• J. Guichard, 2009

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“... in our current societal context, vocational issues are never simple questions of work, employment or career. They always point to a major question addressed to the individual: that of designing his/her life.”

• J. Guichard, 2009

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• the goals must be well defined in quantitative terms
• the decision-maker’s values must be stable
• the situation must be stable
• the task is restricted to the selection between options
• the number of alternatives generated must be exhaustive
• the optimal choice can be selected without disproportionate time

and effort

“Ideal” conditions for optimising decision-making

• G. Klein, 2002

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“Ideal” conditions for optimising decision-making

• the options must be thoroughly compared to each other
• the decision-maker must use a compensatory strategy
• the probability estimates must be coherent and accurate
• the scenarios used to predict failures must be exhaustive and

realistic

• the evaluation of each scenario must be exhaustive
• G. Klein, 2002

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“fast and frugal heuristcs” “bounded rationality” “ecological rationality” “fast and frugal heuristics employ a minimum of time, knowledge and computation to make adaptive choices in real environments”

• G. Gigerenzer, P. Todd and the ABC Research Group, 1999

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• “What is the true meaning of ‘emancipation’ in vocational

guidance in the context of “sanction-counselling?”

• “How does emancipatory counselling fit in with the placement

policies in PES?”

• “Do counsellors have the necessary qualifications and attitudes

to deliver emancipatory guidance?”

• “What could be the role of emancipatory counselling in HR

Management and Change Management?”

research questions in emancipatory guidance

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