Roberts Ken
Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Br J Guid Counc. 2013 Jun;41(3):240-253. doi: 10.1080/03069885.2013.773962. Epub 2013 Mar 13.
In 2011 England's career guidance profession lost its 'own' public service organisation and its former dedicated stream of public funding. The immediate causes lay in decisions by the government of the day, but this article revisits the profession's history to seek explanations for its later vulnerability. It is argued that decisions taken early in the profession's history, specifically its complete separation from adult employment services and basing claims to professional expertise almost wholly on occupational psychology, though maybe right at the time, were to have fateful consequences. The article proceeds to argue that career guidance will certainly survive its recent trauma, but the most likely outcome of the current 'reforms' - a market in career guidance services - will not create the kind of comprehensive education-to-work bridging service that was once intended and which is still needed.
2011年，英格兰的职业指导行业失去了其“专属”的公共服务机构以及以往专门的公共资金流。直接原因在于当时政府的决策，但本文回顾了该行业的历史，以探寻其后来易受影响的原因。有人认为，在该行业历史早期做出的决策，特别是它与成人就业服务的完全分离，以及几乎完全基于职业心理学来宣称专业知识，尽管在当时可能是正确的，却产生了重大后果。本文进而认为，职业指导肯定能从近期的创伤中挺过来，但当前“改革”最可能的结果——职业指导服务市场——不会创造出曾经设想且仍然需要的那种全面的从教育到工作的衔接服务。
