Career Guidance and Development MA

This module will help you examine the professional roles of youth and community workers or careers guidance practitioners in order to enable students to develop as reflective practitioners who draw on developmental supervision. You'll consider the theory, principles and practice of working with individuals and with groups in youth and community work or careers guidance.

This module will help you to understanding social inclusion, and the role of social policy in response to experiences of inequality, exclusion and marginalisation in modern British society. You'll address how greater social inclusion can be achieved through consideration of key social policy challenges such as poverty and inequality, social exclusion, welfare dependency, changing family structures, and globalisation, and specific modern social policy priority areas, such as educational and employment disadvantage and disengagement, youth crime, community cohesion and welfare to work.

This module will help you to examine the networks and contexts in which guidance work is carried out. You'll address underpinning theories of careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG), how these tie in with models of one to one and group interaction and how guidance is addressed in various learning settings.

This module examines approaches to professional practice in a range of contexts. It considers the nature of the organisation within which your practice is located. You'll develop practical skills and knowledge, using theoretical justification for a range of practices. Issues such as safeguarding, guidance policy and working within a formal educational setting will be considered. Learning in the workplace will focus on your own learning contract and your progress against it.

This module develops and deepens your knowledge and understanding of historical and contemporary research within the Career Guidance sector. The assessment for this module is for you to identify a work related or contemporary issue related to the Career Guidance sector. You will produce a critical literature review which outlines the research into your chosen topic. You will critically evaluate the research and identify any gaps in knowledge or scope for further research.

This module will help you design and develop a piece of individual research or a professional project into a current work-related or contemporary issue related the Career Guidance sector You will draw upon a relevant literature review and select and explain an appropriate research design and technique. You will interpret and evaluate the findings and report them in such a way as to encourage dissemination.