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 paper focuses on monitoring of vocational and educational guidance, and offers a proposal to hit this target. In the author’s opinion, the analysis of the guidance processes, its further control and the planning of new actions can only be obtained with the joint adoption of the action research strategies, of the use of the ICT, and of a special Information System. As a consequence of the above hypothesis, Informing Science appears as the transdiscipline that can play a relevant role in educational and vocational guidance.