Careers Services: History, Policy and Practice in The United Kingdom

by Peck; David

• ISBN13: 9780415339353
• ISBN10: 0415339359
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-06
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

No history of the Careers Service has been written since the publication ofThe Youth Employment Service1951, to which students are still being referred. With the exponential expansion of careers guidance training, the raising of the public profile of careers guidance across the world, and the current wildly differing policies across the UK, a broad-based overview is badly needed to set the context for future growth and understanding. This book is for students training to become careers officers, the tens of thousands Connexions advisers currently being trained, and career practitioners who inhabit a very well connected world and are eager for new material in this area.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgement	xi
Introduction	1	(2)
1 1902-1948 juvenile employment and welfare: work that is essentially educational	3	(14)
2 1948-1974 youth employment: capacities, inclinations and opportunities	17	(18)
3 1974-1994 careers: a progress through life	35	(36)
4 1994-2000 careers companies	71	(20)
5 2000-2001 Connexions and disconnections: the best start in life for every young person	91	(10)
6 Diversity and divergence	101	(14)
7 Some conclusions	115	(12)
8 Addendum	127	(10)
Bibliography	137	(8)
Index	145