Using
the Café
uploaded 3rd June
2005
GETTING
WHAT YOU NEED
FROM THE CAREER-LEARNING CAFE
The Café
helps you to help people plan and manage their lives - as learners,
as workers and as citizens. It is a source of ideas, materials and
processes - free to enter and to download.
This information
will help you see...
...what
is career learning?
...who is the Café for?
...is it for me?
...what can I get from it?
...how I can find what I need?
...how can I use what I find?
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get...
extended pdf version of this
summary
in PowerPoint
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what
is career learning?
Career-learning
is what people do to find and develop a basis for sustainable and
fulfilling action on working life. Understanding career learning
follows three lines of enquiry. The Café helps you with all
of them.
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lines
of enquiry
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the
issues
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the
terms
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1.
'what's going on?'
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> what are the
influences on working life?
> how do factors
work - inside and outside the person?
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> career
development
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Questions
1-3 are interdependent - answers to any will be useful only when
it takes account of what is known of all.
The
Career-learning Café includes all - in one conversation.
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2.
'what can people do about it?'
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> what does a
person most need to deal with?
> how do people
get actively engaged in that process?
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career-planning
> career-management |
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3.
'how can anybody help?'
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> how can professionals
and voluntary helpers help?
> what best
helps formally and informally?
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> information,
advice and guidance IAG
> counselling
> personal advisory work
> careers education
> the Café uses the inclusive terms 'careers work' and
'careers workers'
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who
is the Café for?
It is for careers
workers – like those listed below.
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Nobody
is in a position to do everything; but all are in a position to do
something. |
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as
a careers worker
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the
café can help you to...
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see
examples of what you can get
click
to open each in a new browser window
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mentor
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...use
you appreciation of what the local pressures on working life really
are |
'Integrated
information advice and guidance' |
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youth
or
social worker
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...trace
the links between neighbourhood pressures and career |
'The
influences - inner life and other people' |
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personal
adviser
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...establish
networks of help |
'Networks
for learning needs' |
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teacher
or lecturer
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...make
learning interesting and useful |
'Relevance
- earning respect for learning' |
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careers educator
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learners' needs for career planning and management |
'Learning
outcomes - and their frameworks' |
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careers
adviser
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...know
how to help with change in contemporary career |
'Diagnosing
career-learning needs' |
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programme
manager or coordinator
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...organise
confusing diversity into a coherent programme |
'Getting
to grips with priorities for careers work' |
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professional
consultant, adviser or trainer
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...support helpers with ideas, resources and processes |
'Three
dimensions for effective career planning' |
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policy
maker
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...frame
expectations and funding so that helpers can help |
'Learning
from experience' |
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researcher
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...develop
appropriate research questions and present findings helpfully |
'Uncooling
careers work - a plea for practice-based evidence' |
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in
training for any these roles
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...make
sense of it all for dissertations, projects and ability to do the
job |
'What
are we going to do about careers?' |
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is
it really for you?
There are important
issues here. Not the least of them is about fairness regarding who
gets to do what in our society. And careers work is not just about
enabling employability, it is also about helping people to plan
and manage work as part of a good quality of life. The Café
supports this kind of breadth-of-mind. That means taking account
of the way...
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...work-life
issues are as important as any now facing society
...cultural influences on career development are at least as powerful
as economic ones
...work life is always interwoven with life as partner, citizen
and consumer
...we must attend more to concerns for work-life balance
...career learning has it roots in the toddler years, and must
be re-learned - life-long
...career learning is as demanding as any learning
...careers-worker creativity will achieve more than chasing ready-made
targets
...effective careers work needs a widening range of helpers
...informal help is often more useful than formal
…to be helpful in today's world careers-worker professionalism
needs reform
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One
agreement means that you’ll find something useful in the Café.
Ten means that you may not be able to go on without it!
It’s
for you to judge what no agreement at all might mean.
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This
is a distinctive take on careers work. It does not necessarily support
all current provider institutions. Of course careers work needs
institutions which support provision; but it also needs useful ideas.
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It
is an open question which are more important – the institutions
or the ideas. The Café starts with ideas.
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what
you can get from the Café
There are five sections
in the Career-learning Café
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take
a look at front pages
each
opened in a new browser window
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talking about...
what is going on /
the issues /
what can be done to help / how you can help
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...magazine
front page |
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the underpinning
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taking a deeper look...
the ideas / their implications
for practice / policy / theory / research
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...underpinning
front page |
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the memory
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a sense of direction...
how things are developing
over time /
where they are
leading
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...memory
front page |
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moving on
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working out...
which way is forward
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what we can now usefully do
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...moving
on front page |
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the information
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about the Café...
site map / list of
pdfs / rationale / design /
Café people
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...information
front page |
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finding
what you need
There are a lot of constructive
uses you can make of the hihohiho site...
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site map
all features
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site
map and list of pdfs
in
the information
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locate
look for what you know is there
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list
of pdfs and PowerPoints monographs, workbooks and presentations |
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think
reflect on your own assumptions
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the
five menus
introductions to all features |
menus,
'what's new' and 'don't miss'
on
the home page
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search
seek material useful to your work
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‘what’s
new’
recent uploads |
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share
get material for your colleagues, clients or students
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‘don’t
miss’
important material for a range of user groups |
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send
e-mail to friends and colleagues
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‘where
now’
a choice of related material |
'where
now' and 'any thoughts'
at
the end of html documents |
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feedback
set out your own responses and ideas
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‘any
thoughts’
e-mail route for your reactions and ideas |
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support
tell others about the Café
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‘updates’
e-mail for periodic updates |
'updates'
on
home page and throughout
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using
what you find
The site offers you options
for its use...
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html pages
articles
loads into your web-browser
links to other locations
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> print from web browser
> save as html (right-click on link)
> copy-and-paste into word processor
note:
loses formatting
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Three
test for the value of this material:
1.
appropriate to the needs of your learners?
2. capable of practical use by helpers?
3. sustainable in the organisation where it will be located?
If
this so, good; but if not, tell bill@hihohiho.com.
use
hihohiho as a source for> conference papers
> course handouts
> discussion tools
> professional study
> planning tools
> presentations
> to send to others
use
any item - in part or whole
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graphic
features (in the magazine)
words-and-pictures presentations
loads into your web-browser
links to other locations
text on pdf available |
> run on-line as discussion
tool
> save as html (right-click on link)
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pdf’s
workbooks. handouts and monographs
loads into Acrobat Reader
no links (URLs given in text) |
> print for your
own planning use
> print as group planning or workshop tool
note:
retains all formatting – useful for handouts
two colours - but will print as black
‘back’ pages to form a booklet
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PowerPoint
summary versions of selected Café features
loads into Microsoft PowerPoint
also prints as handout |
> run presentation
on-line
> download and run in your computer
> print as OHP acetates
note:
needs image- or OH-projector for group work
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interactive
diagnosing programs - called ‘games for career’
loads into your web-browser
back-up pdfs available |
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run on-line for personal or group-planning use
> use back-up for personal and group use
note:
no download facility on programs
programs copyrighted to Chris Bosley |
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are in The Career-learning Café
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in
‘the information’
Using
The Café
you've
see examples of what the café can offer - there's more!
WHERE NOW?...
>
get this information as a pdf
monograph
> get a summary in PowerPoint
> more information about the Café
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> back to the home page
back
to 'the information' front
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