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Careers Education and Citizenship: an inclusive agenda
ISBN 0-9537258-5-5
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The conference which gave rise to this publication was part of a joint project between The Department of Career and Personal Development and VT Careers Management who have also generously sponsored this publication. This conference, bearing the tile of the publication, was hosted in London in the Summer of 2003 and brought together teachers, careers advisers, personal advisers and academics with an interest in the interface between careers education and guidance and citizenship education. The essays contained in this occasional paper were either the basis of a keynote address or a seminar and we believe well worth bringing together in a single paper for the purposes of wider dissemination.
These are interesting times in respect of curriculum change. Careers education and citizenship, to which we could add PSHE and work-related learning, increasingly appear to occupy much of the same conceptual ground as well as share some of the same 'curriculum floor space', suggesting that collaboration and some measure of integration are required for pragmatic as well as for conceptual reasons. each curriculum strand also illumines and informs the other since all are interwoven with how young people adjust to, learn about and prepare for various life roles - citizen, consumer, voter, worker, sibling, peer, parent, neighbour, volunteer etc. It just may be that holistic perspectives on life roles, cultural capital, gender and community may be a means of offering more inclusive relevance to all young people in the contemporary world.
This paper is a contribution to the beginnings of this debate as to how this may be achieved. It helps to clarify what is distinctive about careers education and citizenship education while examining the common ground that exists between them - which, with new thinking in careers work, may be more substantial than could have been anticipated even 10 years ago. We hope this paper will encourage dialogue concerning how work in and between careers education and citizenship education can be fruitfully explored in the future.
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