looking for additonal ideas or information - masters in careers at uel

10-February-2006

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Careers guidance/IAG through the decades and the black caribbean males, the first generation 45 to 50yr olds

Currently doing a masters in careers at uel london in my final year will need to put together a research dissertation - an idea is something based on how careers guidance/IAG (information, advise & guidance) has influenced or not black caribbean males (45 - 50yrs) - 

where they able to access help regarding work and/or learning? -

What help did they receive? What were the influences on their career decision making.

I've used this particualr age band and culture simply because i'm 45+ educated here, received limited career guidance + other factors. 

The findings should be interesting on how the black caribbean male made use or not of careers guidance/IAG

looking for additonal ideas or information


BEVIN HAY; 10-February-2006 18:58:06; forum (1) help

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1 Have you tried the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Website?

This sounds like really interesting research - so good luck! I'm not aware of much around this particular area so it will be really interesting to see what your own literature review and/or interviews find out. It would be great to hear the career stories of people in that age bracket and culture and hear what they have to say.... I wonder if you might be interested in some of the publications on the jrf website.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation website http://www.jrf.org.uk/ has some interesting stuff - though it may not be quite as specific as you are looking for. For example, there's a 1999 report 'Young Caribbean men and the labour market: a comparison with other ethnic groups' which you can access the findings from at:

http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/N69.asp

Also, and possibly more interesting is a 2002 report 'The needs of excluded young people in multi-cultural communities' you can access findings at:

http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialcare/212.asp

amongst the findings is the observation that 'There are significant numbers of 16- to 17-year-olds disengaged from education, employment and training.' and that of these 'Many are unknown to the Careers Service and a disproportionate number of these are from minority ethnic groups'.

The website might provide some interesting background information. I suppose it might depend on whether you are interested in career guidance (or lack of) received at school or whether you are more interested in access and/or provision of services (or not)later on in life. I'll be to interested to see others ideas.

Lucy Marris, 11-February-2006 13:03:17 forum / discussion

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