to help you to plan for

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RE-INVENTING CAREERS EDUCATION the future in
seven-and-a-half chapters

• to help you to plan for
• gt universal entitlement and local need
• gt employability and well-being
• gt expertise and experience
• gt practice and principles
• gt agendas and schemes of work
• gt careers education and curriculum
• gt guidance and teaching
• gt boundaries and links
• gt professionalism and reform
• gt standards and life-role relevance.

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QCA 2007 - rebalancing curriculum
... we want to encourage schools to be
innovative in the way that they plan the school
timetable... QCA boss
... to make pupils more enthusiastic about
learning.
rebalancing universal entitlement and local need
calls on curriculum
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QCA 2007 - the aims
enquiring minds - think
for themselves... know how to
process information, reason, question and
evaluate... know about big ideas and events
that shape our world

• gt successful learners
• gt confident individuals
• gt responsible citizens

... we want to encourage schools to be
innovative in the way that they plan the school
timetable... ... to make pupils more
enthusiastic about learning. QCA
boss rebalancing universal entitlement and
local need calls on curriculum
self-aware and deal
well with their emotions... recognise their
talents and have ambitions... are willing to
try new things and make the most of
opportunities
well prepared for life
and work... take account of the needs of
present future generations in the choices they
make... can change things for the better.
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QCA 2007 - and Youth Matters
for example have a say
in what and how you learn

• enjoy and succeed
• stay safe and manage risks
• maintain a healthy lifestyle
• form relationships and participate
• be ready for working life
• Youth Matters and QCA Review
• rebalancing employability and well-being
  calls on curriculum

for
example develop skills such as negotiation
and assertiveness to resist unhelpful pressure
for
example see the consequences that some
decisions might have on their health and that
of others.

for example understand the multiple roles
individuals play
for example
understand the economy and be an informed
consumer of financial services.
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QCA 2007 - Youth Matters and careers
1. enjoy and succeed for example have a say in
what and how you learn 2. stay safe and manage
risks for example develop skills such as
negotiation and assertiveness to resist unhelpful
pressure 3. maintain a healthy lifestyle
for example see the consequences that some
decisions might have on their health and that of
others 4. form relationships and participate
for example understand the multiple roles
individuals play 5. be ready for working life
for example understand the economy and be an
informed consumer of financial services. Youth
Matters and QCA Review rebalancing
employability and well-being calls on
curriculum
well-being in the emerging curriculum
personal, social, health and economic education
education for citizenship
religious education
personal well-being
civil well-being
spiritual well-being
economic well-being
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back story 1 changing culture
The great majority of young people are taking
advantage of the expanding opportunities that
changes in society and the economy are providing.
The internet, mobile phones, digital tv and
games consoles have transformed the way they use
their leisure time. Texting and chat-rooms are
for many an essential means of communication.
The web is todays newspaper, gossip column and
encyclopaedia all rolled into one. Youth
Matters rebalancing expertise and
experiencecalls on curriculum
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back story 1 culture and career
The great majority of young people are taking
advantage of the expanding opportunities that
changes in society and the economy are providing.
The internet, mobile phones, digital tv and
games consoles have transformed the way they use
their leisure time. Texting and chat-rooms are
for many an essential means of communication.
The web is todays newspaper, gossip column and
encyclopaedia all rolled into one. Youth
Matters rebalancing expertise and
experience calls on curriculum
gt beliefs this is how things are
gt values - this is what is worth doing
gt expectations and this is who is in a
position to do it.
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back story 2 locality in policy
The information needed appropriately to
formulate targets is held by the people in
schools - rather than in government departments.
To evade that reality is to undermine the
authority and morale of those engaged in the
activities which are being planned. The State
and the Market (abstracted) rebalancing
expertise and experiencecalls on curriculum
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back story 2 locality and career
The information needed appropriately to
formulate targets is held by the people in
schools - rather than in government departments.
To evade that reality is to undermine the
authority and morale of those engaged in the
activities which are being planned. The State
and the Market (abstracted) rebalancing
expertise and experiencecalls on curriculum
gt post-coded and other proximate realities
gt long-tail celebrations of people-like-us
gt attachment, allegiance and resonance.
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back story 3 well-being in experience
Our national output has grown in every quarter
since 1993. But a visitor might rightly ask, if
youre so rich, how come you aint happy?. Of
course, happiness and well-being are notoriously
slippery concepts. But its hard to deny that
something is wrong. Compassionate
Conservatism rebalancing expertise and
experience calls on curriculum
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back story 3 experience in role
We do semantic and procedural, but less episodic
learning - developing a story of how learning can
be used in a life.
Our national output has grown in every quarter
since 1993. But a visitor might rightly ask, if
youre so rich, how come you aint happy?. Of
course, happiness and well-being are notoriously
slippery concepts. But its hard to deny that
something is wrong. Compassionate
Conservatism rebalancing expertise and
experience calls on curriculum
For
example as a job-seeker - and a friend - and a
son

• gt where? in an interview /
• gt with whom?
• a selector /
• gt for what? looking good /

• on the street / at home
• my mates / the family
• letting go / holding on

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effect 1 principle not prescription
1. aims what students gain, and why it is
important 2. key processes how learning is
acquired and used 3. key concepts ideas that
underpin any useful grasp of the
learning 4. range and content topics and issues
that students need to examine 5. opportunities
scheme, project and experience. QCA Review
rebalancing practice and principles calls on
curriculum
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effect 1 principles enable links
1. aims what students gain, and why it is
important 2. key processes how learning is
acquired and used 3. key concepts ideas that
underpin any useful grasp of the
learning 4. range and content topics and issues
that students need to examine 5. opportunities
scheme, project and experience. QCA Review
rebalancing practice and principles calls on
curriculum
every scheme to be organised around the five
principles - so that links can be made between...
... citizenship, religious education, personal
and economic well-being
... well-being and any part of the
subject-based curriculum
... subjects separated by conventional
timetabling
... school-based and community-based expertise
and experience.
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effect 2 integration
gt use work as a context for learning across
the curriculum and gt reflect on how their
learning in all subjects in the curriculum is
relevant to their economic well-being. QCA
Review rebalancing boundaries and links
calls on curriculum
something do somewhere to go someone to
talk to
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effect 2 not boxed or infused - integrated
gt use work as a context for learning across
the curriculum and gt reflect on how their
learning in all subjects in the curriculum is
relevant to their economic well- being. QCA
Review something do which is useful
somewhere to go that is new someone to
talk to - who is credible. Youth Matters - Next
Steps (adapted) rebalancing boundaries and
links calls on curriculum
subject-based
infused
integrated
others space as-and-when cross-curricular subject
-by-subject more for less
shared space as needed off-the-edge task-by-task l
ess is more
wholly-owned in a box specialist another
subject by whomever
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effect 3 re-programming curriculum

• key features of curriculum
• rebalancing guidance and teaching
• calls on curriculum

gt enabling processes so that students learn how
to learn
gt ensuring progression so that students move
forward from basic to useful learning
gt getting transfer-of-learning so they have
multiple links for using the learning in their
lives
gt working across boundaries so that learning is
rooted in a range of expertise and experience.
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effect 3 programme management

• key features of curriculum
• gt enabling processes so that students learn how
  to learn
• gt ensuring progression so that students move
  forward from basic to useful learning
• gt getting transfer-of-learning so they have
  multiple links for using the learning in their
  lives
• gt working across boundaries so that learning is
  rooted in a range of expertise and experience.
• rebalancing guidance and teaching
• calls on curriculum

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effect 4 reforming careers work
The curriculum cannot remain static. We have to
re-appraise our work in response to the changing
needs of our students and the impact of economic,
social and cultural change. Education only
flourishes if it successfully adapts to the
demands and needs of the time. DfES The
National Curriculum (abstracted) rebalancing
professionalism and reform calls on curriculum
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effect 4 reforming careers work
The curriculum cannot remain static. We have to
re-appraise our work in response to the changing
needs of our students and the impact of economic,
social and cultural change. Education only
flourishes if it successfully adapts to the
demands and needs of the time. DfES The
National Curriculum (abstracted) rebalancing
professionalism and reform calls on curriculum
gt from bilateral to multilateral partnerships
gt at the heart of curriculum
gt positioned for on-going curriculum reform.
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the future - in seven-and-a-half chapters
1. back to basics embedding careers education
in economic well- being
2. moving out linking learning for work roles
to other economic roles
3. getting smart drawing on expertise and
experience in school-wide curriculum and
community
4. off the edge getting integrated events in
central timetabling
5. linking up as pressures on citizenship
relax, linking economic to civil roles
6. markets and meaning as pressures on
religious education relax, working with meaning
and purposes for life roles
7. the reformers becoming a major source for
on-going curriculum reform.
chapter seven-and-a-half pastoral, religion,
citizenship and career may prove to be
pre-twenty-first-century words we might now
find better.
rebalancing standards and life-role relevance
calls on curriculum
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the future - as life-role related learning
1. back to basics embedding careers education
in economic well- being 2. moving out
linking learning for work roles to other economic
roles 3. getting smart drawing on expertise
and experience in school-wide curriculum and
community 4. off the edge getting integrated
events in central timetabling 5. linking up
as pressures on citizenship relax, linking
economic to civil roles 6. markets and
meaning as pressures on religious education
relax, working with meaning and purposes for
life roles 7. the reformers becoming a major
source for on-going curriculum reform. chapter
seven-and-a-half pastoral, religion,
citizenship and career may prove to be
pre-twenty-first-century words we might now
find better. rebalancing standards and life-role
relevance calls on curriculum
daughter / friend / lover / consumer / debtor
job-seeker / employee / entrepreneur / investor
voter / activist / neighbour / volunteer
believer / disciple / worshipper / guru
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any hope here?
for rebalancing
universal entitlement and local
need employability and well-being expertise and
experience practice and principles agendas and
schemes of work careers education and
curriculum guidance and teaching boundaries and
links professionalism and reform standards and
life-role relevance
yes/noyes/noyes/noyes/noyes/noyes/noyes/noy
es/noyes/noyes/no
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l the QCA proposals on life-role
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