Career studies handbook: career development learning in practice

 In this handbook it is argued that a Career Studies approach to
employability and career development learning meets the expectations of Career Studies. Specifically, the use of the term “Career Studies” indicates a conceptualisation of career education as a subject of study in higher education. In particular, by developing a subject-based approach to career education,
this handbook will respond robustly to Watts’ (2006: 29) exhortation to strengthen the intellectual basis of career development learning.

Preview of key points:

• Career Studies provides a comprehensive means for operationalising
  in educational terms the challenging career development learning and
  employability agenda set out in the Learning and Employability series.
• Career Studies is a transdisciplinary subject and is expanding, both in
  terms of teaching and research activity.
• Units of formal study range from full degree courses to individual
  modules, papers, and lectures within courses. There are also extracurricular
  examples.
•  Career Studies explicitly frames career education as a subject within
  which teaching, research and research-based practice take place.
• The teaching of Career Studies as a transdisciplinary theme entails the
  development of learning outcomes appropriate to home subject disciplines.
• The evaluation of Career Studies teaching can involve a range of
  methods with a particular focus on the assessment of intellectual, cultural and moral development.