It's All Over Now Baby Blue

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Its all over now baby blueWhats a career researcher to do?

Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)

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Can university and NGO basedresearchers serve in the role of

Gramscis organic intellectuals during

periods of neo-liberal onslaughtagainst career education and

guidance?

Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)



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Why bother with policy?

If you are interested in career guidance as a way ofsupporting rich and powerful people to optimise their

talents and become more rich and powerful then you can

afford to ignore policy.

If you are interested in career guidance an engine ofsocial mobility and social equity then public policy

questions are of critical importance.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in

various ways; the point is to change it. (Marx, 1845)



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Career guidance policy is political


Public provision

of careerguidance

Public education

Access to vocational and higher

education

Full employment

Income inequality

Labour planning

Welfare to work

Skills

Youth policy

Employment law


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My context

The UK/English Government: promised an all-age careers service and has not

delivered.

transferred responsibility for career guidance to schools.

removed the requirement for career education and work-related learning.

allowed Connexions to collapse as a national service.

launched a new National Careers Service (for adults) with

almost no new investment.



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Armageddon and my self interest

I run the risk of being an expert in something

that no longer exists



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Against the gloom

What can you do? Ignore it

Critique it (from the

vantage point of the Ivory

Tower) Try and do something

about it

Start looking for other jobs



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What is an appropriate role?


Describing

Scrutinising

Connecting to evidence

Offering solutions

Linking to the big picture

Providing vision

Publ ic is ing and agi tating


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Dangers

Time Believing that things only change through policymakers

actions

The lure of the technocracy

Collusion and flattery



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What would Antonio Gramsci say?

All men are intellectuals, but not allmen have in society the function of

intellectuals.

One must speak for a struggle for anew culture, that is, for a new moral

life that cannot but be intimately

connected to a new intuition of life,

until it becomes a new way of feeling

and seeing reality.



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How is policy changed?



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Lindquists (1990) model


Policy

makers

Knowledge

brokersAcademics


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Change actors in career guidance policy


Career guidance practice

Career guidance policy

Government

Knowledge

brokers

Trade unionsProfessional

associationsSchools

organisationsEmployers

Me

dia

Intelle

ctuals

Etc.

Publico

pinion

Civil society


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Example: Connexions research

Timely Relevant

Involved key stakeholders

(Unision, the professional

bodies) Passed it to MPs/politicians

Continued to make use of it

after it was published.



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In conclusion

Researchers are not in the business of makingmanifestos.

But neither can they, or should they stand outside of

policy and politics.

For career guidance it is vital that we continue to play therole of supporting change both through engaging with

policy makers directly and with other actors in the policy

process.

This probably means taking sides at least some of the

time.



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References

Lindquist, E.A. 1990. The Third Community, Policy Inquiry, and Social

Scientists. In Brooks, S. & Gagnon, A.-G (Eds). Social Scientists,

Policy and the State. New York: Praeger.

Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York:

International Publishers.

Hooley, T. and Watts, A.G. (2011). Careers Work with Young People:Collapse or Transition? Derby: International Centre for Guidance

Studies, University of Derby.

Marx, K (1845) Theses on Feuerbach. Available from

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/original.htm

http://www.derby.ac.uk/files/careers_transition_paper.pdfhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/files/careers_transition_paper.pdfhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/educationhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/files/careers_transition_paper.pdfhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/files/careers_transition_paper.pdfhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/education


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Tristram Hooley

Reader in Career DevelopmentInternational Centre for Guidance Studies

University of Derby

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