1st Edition

Taking Issue Debates in Guidance and Counselling in Learning

Edited By Megan Crawford, Richard Edwards, Lesley Kidd Copyright 1998
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    The partner to Telling Tales, this reader looks at a range of perspectives on a number of key issues emerging from the area of guidance and counselling in education. Questions of ethics, equality and impartiality and their relationship to guidance and counselling in the context of learning are explored. The book also examines the trend towards group work and the role of technology in creating strategies for guidance.
    Written for a new module on the Open Universitys MA in Education.

    Taking issue: introducing debates in guidance and counselling in learning PART I Ethics and equity 1 Ethical issues in counselling in education 2 Ethical issues in workplace counselling 3 Gender and educational guidance: questions of feminist practice 4 Careers guidance and ethnic minorities in Holland and Britain: confronting fear and anger 5 After the Odyssey: new roles for Mentor PART II Modes of delivery 6 The tutorial relationship 7 Counselling in groups 8 Telephone counselling 9 Guidance and counselling in The Open University 10 British systems of careers software: past and present 11 Information technology in careers education and guidance: an historical perspective, 1970-1997 PART III Accessibility, client-centredness and impartiality 12 Guidance, access and networking 13 A whole-school approach to guidance 14 Guidance and retention of mature students in further and higher education 15 The interpersonal relationship in the facilitation of learning 16 Putting problems in context: the family and the school 17 Impartiality in adult guidance: a Scottish study 18 Guidance in the workplace: principles under pressure

    Biography

    Megan Crawford, Richard Edwards, Lesley Kidd, all The Open Univerisity