Theorising career guidance policymaking: watching the sausage get made. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hooley, Tristram; Godden, Lorraine
• Is Part Of: British journal of guidance & counselling. Volume 50:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 141
• Page End: 156
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Career guidance -- policy -- politics -- Gramsci -- education policy; Educational counseling -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Vocational guidance -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 371.4
• DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2021.1948503
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-9885

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, we propose a framework for understanding career guidance policy. We use a systems theory approach informed by Gramscian theories of politics and power to make sense of this complexity. Firstly, we argue that career guidance policy is made by and for people and that there is a need to recognise all of the political and civil society actors involved. Secondly, we argue that policymaking comprises a series of ideological, technical and practical processes. Finally, we contend that policymaking takes place in a complex, multi-level environment which is can be described across three levels as the policy framing, middle and street level tiers.