Reimagining Career Education with the Future Senses

Autor/in	Westacott, Marguerite
Titel	Reimagining Career Education with the Future Senses
Quelle	In: On the Horizon, 30 (2022) 3, S.163-170 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1074-8121
DOI	10.1108/OTH-02-2022-0008
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Career Education; Educational Change; Futures (of Society); Integrated Curriculum; Higher Education; Career Development; Career Planning; Learning Activities; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitslehre; Bildungsreform; Future; Society; Zukunft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Berufsentwicklung; Karriereplanung; Lernaktivität; Australien
Abstract	Purpose: Career education and employability have become Australian university curriculum and pedagogy priorities to meet the changing world of work and federal government parameters linking higher education funding to graduate employment outcomes. This conceptual paper aims to present the hypothesis that emphasis on integrating career education in the curriculum can provide an opportunity to embed future-thinking concepts by reframing future-focussed career education practice to futures focussed. It proposes that using a Futures Senses lens to expand current career pedagogy liberates career education from individualised cognitive decision-making and self-analysis; to include the affective, collective imagining, ancestral voices and innate gifts. Design/methodology/approach: A suite of five career education pedagogical tools that have been embedded by the author in the curriculum of an enabling education course in a regional Australian university; are described, analysed and reconceptualised using the Futures Senses. A Causal Layered Analysis provides a layered comparison of future-focussed and futures focussed career education. Discussion: The discussion reflects on current pedagogical practice by the author and indicates pragmatic implications for applying a future-focussed approach to career education practice. Implementation of these reimagined activities provides an opportunity for future qualitative research. Originality/value: Opportunity exists to leverage rising institutional demands and political agendas of integrating career education in the tertiary curriculum, as a means of embedding futures concepts, thinking and pedagogy. The reimagined activities are a pragmatic offering that can be used by educators to initiate and nurture futures thinking. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01