Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
A reflective analysis of values with respect to equality and the implications of those on professional practice in career guidance.
Member rating: No Rating | Words: 2789 | Submitted: Tue Mar 11 2008
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
Title A reflective analysis of values with respect to equality and the implications of those on professional practice in career guidance. "Careers Education and guidance is a profoundly political process. It operates at the interface between the individual and society, between self and opportunity, between aspiration and realism. It facilitates the allocation of life chances. Within a society in which such life chances are unequally distributed, it faces the issue of whether it serves to reinforce such inequalities or to reduce them." (Watts, 1996:351) There are clearly two schools of thought in response to this quote. The first is 'reinforcement of inequalities' with supporting views by Roberts (1968) who suggested that the "momentum and direction of school leavers' careers are derived from the way in which their job opportunities become cumulatively structured and young people are placed in varying degrees of social proximity, with different ease of access to different types of employment"...
To see the full version of this document, and 143,475 others
