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Book SynopsisThe citizens of Europe are facing increasingly complex challenges to their career development nowadays. Over the span of their lifetime, they need to manage their careers, and make numerous decisions concerning education, training and employment – decisions, which seriously impact their futures and their wellbeing. To prepare citizens for these challenges, and to support them in the progress, competent career practitioners are needed. But what kinds of career practitioners are we talking about? And what do they need to be able to do? How can the quality of their training be assured? This handbook introduces common European competence standards for the academic training of career practitioners in Europe, together with some proposals and examples, of how to implement and establish such competence standards in practice. More than 200 experts from all across Europe have contributed to the development of these shared standards of the Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE). The standards are already being used in many countries for the development of degree programmes.
Table of ContentsEditorial Memorandum on Academic Training and Research in Career Guidance and Counselling Chapter 1 i- Introduction 1.1. Purpose of the Handbook 1.2. Structure Chapter 2 i- Goals and Design of the European Competence Standards 2.1. Background 2.2. Goals 2.3. Challenges 2.4. Design of the Competence Standards Chapter 3 i- Three Types of Career Practitioners 3.1. The NICE Professional Roles Revisited 3.2. The NICE Types of Career Practitioners 3.3. Task Profiles Chapter 4 i- European Competence Standards 4.1. Understanding of Competence 4.2. Formulation of Competence Standards 4.3. System of the European Competence Standards 4.4. Using the ECS for Curriculum Development Chapter 5 i- Recommended Qualification Levels 5.1. Recommended Qualification Levels 5.2. Elaboration of Recommended Qualification Levels Chapter 6 i- Quality Assurance and Enhancement: Policy Drivers and Practical Steps 6.1. The Bologna Declaration and Process 6.2. How NICE supports Quality Assurance and Enhancement 6.3. Checklist for Quality Assurance and Enhancement 6.4. Illustrations of NICE Common Points of Reference used in QAE Chapter 7 i- Quality and Professional Development in Career Guidance and Counselling Programme: Guidelines for the use of Peer-Learning 7.1. Peer Learning in the Context of the Improvement of Academic Training in CGC 7.2. Peer Learning in Practice: Three Case Studies 7.3. Guidelines for Carrying out and Moderating Peer Learning 7.4. Opportunities and Challenges of Peer Learning Acknowledgements Appendix Appendix 1: The Bergen Communique (Bergen 2005) Appendix 2: Resources to Support Quality Assurance References (all chapters) List of Partners Map of Partners
