1. Tristram Hooley, University of Derby
Like making sausage…
What can career guidance practitioners do to advance social justice?
Tristram Hooley
Insights from the careers policy front-line and what it all means for practice
Tristram Hooley, University of Derby

2. Key questions
Should I?
Can I?
How do I?

3. Key questions
Should I?
Can I?
How do I?

4. Practitioner concerns
Want to be on the side of the individual.
Don’t want to be the servants of political masters.
Impartiality – concerns about pushing a political line.
Fear of reprisals/withdrawal of funding.
What does ‘social justice’ even mean?
No idea what to do about it.

5. The politics of 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. Tony Watts

7. IAEVG statement on social justice
“IAEVG, as the largest worldwide guidance association, appeals to providers, practitioners, academics and policy makers, to increase their efforts by embracing social justice as a core value that guides their practices.” IAEVG (2013)

8. Ideology and habitas

9. What are we doing?

10. Key questions
Should I?
Can I?
How do I?

11. A constrained professionalism
Professional regulation
Peer expectations
Funding
Management
Client expectations
Time
Know how
These all influence the type of professional you are able to be.
Taking on new and critical approaches to guidance can be difficult.

12. Approaches to resistence
Public challenge
Disguised resistance
Create space for resistance
Survival practices

13. Key questions
Should I?
Can I?
How do I?

14. 5 questions career guidance should ask
Who am I?
How does the world work?
Where do I fit into the world?
How can I live with others?
How do I go about changing the world?

15. Challenging the faces of oppression
Challenge
Exploitation. Unfair compensation and coercion.
Notice, highlight and challenge issues of inequality, low pay and precarity in the labour market.
Empower individuals and groups to challenge this.
Marginalisation. Loss of work, power and respect.
Understand who is marginalised and locked out of the labour market and work to help them to reingage.
Powerlessness. Always being on the receiving end of orders.
Help people to understand what power is and how it operates.
Encourage people to seek autonomy and self-efficacy.
Cultural imperialism. Imposing ‘norms’ on people.
Respect difference and reaffirm pluralism.
Violence. Random, unprovoked attacks.
Challenge individual and institutional violence (advocacy) and encourage others to challenge it (empowerment).

16. References
Hooley, T. (2015). Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery: Self-Actualisation, Social Justice and the Politics of Career Guidance. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby. Hooley, T. and Barham, L. (Eds.). Career Development Policy and Practice: The Tony Watts Reader. Stafford: Highflyers. Hooley, T. and Sultana, R. (2016). Career guidance for social justice. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 36, Law, B. (2012). The uses of narrative: Three scene storyboarding – learning for living, Young, I.M. (1990). Five Faces of Oppression, in Justice and the Politics of Difference, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,

17. About me
Tristram Hooley Professor of Career Education University of Derby