Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice
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

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Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice
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

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Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice

Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice

by Suzy Harris
Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice

Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice

by Suzy Harris

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Overview

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781853963902
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 09/14/1999
Series: Career Guidance Series
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Contested Careers
A View from the Inside
Schooling Careers Education
Becoming Relevant
Whose Role, What Role?
Reconstructing Education, Deconstructing Careers
Competing Careers?
Reconstructing Marginal Careers
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