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Advancing Social Justice in Career Guidance: Insights and Practice

This article explores the role of career guidance practitioners in advancing social justice and addresses key concerns, challenges, and questions related to the intersection of career guidance and politics. It highlights the importance of embracing social justice as a core value in career guidance practice.

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Advancing Social Justice in Career Guidance: Insights and Practice

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  1. Like making sausage… What can career guidance practitioners do to advance social justice? Tristram Hooley Insights from the careers policy front-line and what it all means for practice Tristram Hooley, University of Derby

  2. Key questions

  3. Key questions

  4. Practitioner concerns • Want to be on the side of the individual. • Don’t want to be the servants of political masters. • Impartiality – concerns about pushing a political line. • Fear of reprisals/withdrawal of funding. • What does ‘social justice’ even mean? • No idea what to do about it.

  5. The politics of career guidance Careers education and guidance is a profoundly political process. It operates at the interface between the individual and society, between self and opportunity, between aspiration and realism. It facilitates the allocation of life chances. Within a society in which such life chances are unequally distributed, it faces the issue of whether it serves to reinforce such inequalities or to reduce them. Tony Watts

  6. IAEVG statement on social justice “IAEVG, as the largest worldwide guidance association, appeals to providers, practitioners, academics and policy makers, to increase their efforts by embracing social justice as a core value that guides their practices.” IAEVG (2013)

  7. Ideology and habitas

  8. What are we doing?

  9. Key questions

  10. A constrained professionalism • Professional regulation • Peer expectations • Funding • Management • Client expectations • Time • Know how These all influence the type of professional you are able to be. Taking on new and critical approaches to guidance can be difficult.

  11. Approaches to resistence

  12. Key questions

  13. 5 questions career guidance should ask • Who am I? • How does the world work? • Where do I fit into the world? • How can I live with others? • How do I go about changing the world?

  14. Challenging the faces of oppression

  15. References Hooley, T. (2015). Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery: Self-Actualisation, Social Justice and the Politics of Career Guidance. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby. Hooley, T. and Barham, L. (Eds.). Career Development Policy and Practice: The Tony Watts Reader. Stafford: Highflyers. Hooley, T. and Sultana, R. (2016). Career guidance for social justice. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 36, 2-11. Law, B. (2012). The uses of narrative: Three scene storyboarding – learning for living, http://www.hihohiho.com/storyboarding/sbL4L.pdf. Young, I.M. (1990). Five Faces of Oppression, in Justice and the Politics of Difference, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 39-65.

  16. About me Tristram Hooley Professor of Career Education University of Derby www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk @pigironjoe https://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com/

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