Career guidance policy documents: translation and usage. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Godden, Lorraine
• Is Part Of: British journal of guidance & counselling. Volume 50:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 157
• Page End: 169
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Policy documents -- policy actors -- career guidance -- sensemaking -- reading and translating; Educational counseling -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Vocational guidance -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 371.4
• DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2020.1784843
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-9885

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Through a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study, I examined the intersection of document analysis, sensemaking and policy implementation, that revealed rich descriptions of situated policy contexts and nested working practices where policy actors from Ontario, Canada, and England, UK, translated and used career guidance policy documents. The different job roles of the study participants in Ontario and England influenced complex and differentiated activity during policy implementation, and underlined 25 very individual approaches to translating and using policy documents to support career provision decision-making in participating schools. Implications for future work include roles of all stakeholders as policy actors, opportunities for forming networks to source and access documents, and creating learning conversations to understand policy.