which way is forward?
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
to help you to …
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DVT
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Forward
updated 26/11/05
review changing attitudes to learning
probe new ideas for action
examine their implications for careers work
programme needed expertise & experience
map your resources
locate your key contacts
The Career-learning NETWORK
www.hihohiho.com
these ideas in
‘which way is
forward?
learning from
experience’
free at
www.hihohiho.com in ‘the underpinning’
this PowerPoint at the
same url in ‘the magazine’
(in touch)
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handouts:
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changing attitudes to learning
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more ways of getting hold of material
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growing independence of traditional authorities
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greater reliance on experience-based influences
professional
& specialist
EXPERTISE
own & other
people’s
EXPERIENCE
accessibility + credibility + usefulness = trust
careers-work - ideas for action
1.
career-development
what is going on in
working life?
2.
career-management
what is people’s
experience of that?
3.
careers-work
how can
anybody help?
facts, factors and trends for
career - both ‘inside’ and
‘outside’ the person
resolving dilemmas, solving
problems and facing
conflicts in learning and
working
IAG, careers education
experience of work,
mainstream curriculum and
more
learning from LMI and LME
1.
information
2.
experience
3.
learning
demands &
incentives
being accepted &
rejected
being
beingflexible
flexible&
coping with stress
structures &
outsourcing
fulfilment &
quality-of-life
making
makingchoices
choices&
finding meaning
new technologies &
global off-shoring
over- &
under-employment
holding on &
being enterprising
moving on
sectors &
organisations
employment &
other work roles
being enterprising &
achieving
employability
realising
values
competitiveness
change & trends
using skills &
dealing with conflicts
achieving employability
&fulfilling
work-life
balance
functions
selection criteria &
skill-sets
earning &
owing
fulfilling functions
& realising identity’
being self-reliant
promotion &
casualisation
being self-reliant
& examining alternatives
race-, gender- &
class-distributions
consequences for self,
others & communities
where experience takes learning
information
life-role
experience
CPI-1
‘coverage’
feelings
attachments
inner life &
CPI-3
culture
other people
‘influences’
purpose
learning
step-by-step
progress
CPI-2
‘processes’
more on CPI at www.hihohiho.com/underpinning/CPIpdfs
mapping your resources
community-linked
visits-in
/
off-site
/
experience-based
integrated
one-off
/
programmed
/
long-slot
/
continuous
/
life-wide
recording
tests & lists / profiles & plans / diaries & biography
specialist classroom
short-slot
/
active learning
/
experiential
face-to-face
IAG
/
continuing
applying selected
mainstream learning to liferole experience
linking own life roles to each
other & to other people’s
personal & social development
modular
engaging direct-andpersonal contact with
people, places & tasks
/
mentoring
information centre
display & loan / multi-media / local & life-wide
setting down learning,
experience & intentions
developing, reviewing &
adapting life- management
plans
engaging individual,
personal & specific help
gathering information &
impressions on opportunity,
role and self
more locations + more engagement = greater effectiveness
locating key contacts
how important to be aware of…
central organisations
- & peripheral?
boundaries around
- & within
radial links - & orbital?
up-close contacts - & distant
two-way
communication - & one
people in organisations
- & not?
present learners
- & former?
professional helpers
- & voluntary?
…locations for finding expertise and experience
any hope here?
for…
reviewing changing attitudes to learning?
probing new ideas for action?
examining their implications for careers work?
programming needed expertise & experience?
mapping your resources?
locating your key contacts?
yes/no
yes/no
yes/no
yes/no
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if ‘yes’ - glad it’s been useful
if ‘no’ - you could tell Bill - at www.hihohiho.com