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The specificity of
Career Guidance in Arab states: some considerations
Amman, 15-16 December 2009
Ronald G. Sultana
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55 country reviews since 2000
OECD: 14 countries
ETF: 11 EU candidate countries
ETF: 7 West Balkan countries
ETF: 10 MEDA countries
CEDEFOP: 27 EU + 2 EEA states
World Bank: 7 countries
DG Employment: 25 EU + 3 EEA states
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Notions underpinning career guidance
individualism
you can do anything!
humanistic discourse: private good
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Notions underpinning career guidance
individualism
you can do anything!
humanistic discourse: private good
human capital discourse: public good
matching skills
supply and
demand
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Challenge: finding a balance
private good
choice
support
dreams
no limits
public good
direct
orient
realism
compromise
Often stressed in Career Guidance
in education settings
Often stressed in Career Guidance
in LabourMarket settings
p l a c e p l a c e
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Career information
Career Education
Career
counseling
Employment counseling
Job placement
Valid, reliable, up-dated, transparent, timely: Labour market information; occupational profiles; education and training pathways…
Supports self-understanding; career assessment tools; individual or group counseling…
Immediate employment goals; job-getting; interview skills; APEL; personal action planning (PAP)…
In or/and across the curriculum; extra-curricular activities; school-to-work curriculum; work experience; entrepreneurship…
Registration of vacancies; networks with employers; role of universities and colleges; job tasting…
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A culture-specific practice?
Choice:enabling or hostileenvironments?
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Specificity of context
1.Economic and Labour Market issues
rural poverty public-sector employment informal sector moonlighting small and medium enterprises public employment services demographic trends migrant labour political restrictions
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Specificity of context
2. Socio-cultural issues
family influences gender patronage directiveness fatalism
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Specificity of context
3. Educational issues
selective, segmented systems massification of higher education low status of VET
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What implications
for CG in Jordan?