DOTS
the original version
This
analysis of decision, opportunity, transition
and self probably influenced twentieth-century careers
education and guidance more than any other framework for thinking.
It needs development for the twenty-first century careers work. But, if
it is to be developed usefully, it must be well understood. Get hold of
the original version in this ready-to-download version
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New
Thinking for Connexions and Citizenship
Comprehensive
and fully-referenced theory, explaining why we must pay more attention
to the person in his or her social group. An account of how good and bad
feelings about work and society help and hinder any sense of stakeholding.
The most radical account of 'NewDOTS' thinking to date.
also
available at the Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby |
to
further develop this stream of ideas
from up-to-date sources
take a look also at...
Diagnosing
Career-learning Needs
Which
Way is Forward? - Fewer Lists, More Stories
CPI - a coverage-process-influences model for contemporary career development |
NewDOTS
This
thinking added a process dimension to the DOTS analysis. It was useful
to 1990's thinking for the way it emphasised the importance of how
people learn for career, how this can be developed into life-long learning
and what this means for effective practice. It is still the most concise version
of career-learning theory. Find about a C21st extension.
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New Thinking
Building on What We Know
A priority for careers work is about using groundbreaking research to deepen and widen our understanding of career management. But, no less, it is about finding the links between that research and what people actually do. We need both to expand our expertise, and to align it with people’s experience. And the experience also changes: it is in the way that pressure on work-life is intensifying & in how people are revising their attitudes to work. Change for them means change for us. This Café menu lists material which updates community-interaction & career-learning theory, and it realigns it to contemporary work-life. It examines the original papers. It probes their application to a global economy and to the commercial use of information technology. And it develops new ideas for careers-work action - enabling people to find out what is going on, and figure out what they will do about it.
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How
do Careers
Really Work?
Career
in the contemporary world is increasingly complex and dynamic. Career
planning always evokes strong feelings, sometimes challenges valued cultures
and may well question deeply-held assumptions. We must develop an understanding
of how careers really work.
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