Interdisciplinarity in vocational guidance: an action theory perspective

The Theory and Practice of Vocational Guidance

Action-Guidance: An Action Research Project for the Application of Informing Science in Educational and Vocational Guidance

After a short introduction that describes the author’s interest in educational and vocational guidance, this paper reports on the psychological and pedagogical contributions to the analysis of the phenomenon. The limits of the above approaches are then analyzed and the need for the monitoring of the students’ cognitive, relational and affective spheres is explained. The last section of the pape...

Vocational Guidance

the factory, separated almost entirely from the life of the child, whose education, on the other hand, is supervised and controlled by an authority who is not likely to be familiar with any of the activities in which the boy will eventually engage. Thus there is no longer in this modern community that correlation between the boy's early and later life which prevailed in more primitive groups. T...

Vocational Guidance

Many homilies have been preached on " life's failures "?who are generally visualized as grimy loafers supporting die walls of a public house. But failures are of many types and they are not always recognizable at sight. They include the adventurous spirit eating out his heart as a bank clerk; the Army officer whose heart is in Cambridge or Bloomsbury and who finds nothing but boredom in his wor...

Vocational curriculum and pedagogy : An activity theory perspective

This paper advances a scheme that proposes how curriculum goals and content might be conceptualised for vocational education. The scheme is founded in socio-historical activity theory. An account of the social sources of vocational knowledge (sociogeneses) comprising history, culture and situation is discussed to illuminate how both the canonical requirements of vocational practice and its mani...