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Reid, Emily Róisín and Kelestyn, Bo (2022) Problem representations of employability in higher education : using design thinking and critical analysis as tools for social justice in careers education. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50 (4). 631-646 . doi:10.1080/03069885.2022.2054943 ISSN 0306-9885.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2022.2054943
Abstract
We present an analysis of narratives that emerged from a recent interdisciplinary design thinking careers intervention exploring how employability is represented within one UK University. We conducted a critical discourse analysis using a policy analysis framework that revealed four emergent problem representations. These exposed tacit assumptions about students’ lack of employability skills and the responsibilisation of ‘employability’, amplified silences around opportunity structures and highlighted unquestioned expectations about employability in the neoliberalist paradigm. The need for critical discourse is foregrounded, as is the importance of collective engagement in reframing these narratives. Design Thinking shows promise as a novel intervention for future career education practice, enabling practitioners and individuals to begin to co-create a new critical consciousness.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce L Education > LC Special aspects of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education, Higher , College graduates -- Employment, Career development, Employability , Critical discourse analysis | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Guidance & Counselling | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0306-9885 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | 631-646 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/03069885.2022.2054943 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 June 2022 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 June 2022 | ||||||||||
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