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IAEVG International Conference 2010 - Career... A Celebration of Life


Date :  du 08-10-2010 au 10-10-2010

Lieu :  Bangalore

Organisation :  International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG)
en partenariat avec la Fondation JIVA

Programme : 
Culturally resonant services for guidance and counselling

Most published methods of guidance and counselling emerged in an environment wherein the counsellor and counselee belonged to a similar cultural background. Today however, more and more work occurs in a context that is populated by individuals from varied cultural, socio-economic and religious backgrounds. As a result, there is a higher likelihood of counsellor and counselee coming from differing cultural contexts, each influenced and guided by their own beliefs and ways of living.


      The developing world has been poorly represented in the international guidance and counselling community. There is an urgent need for models and methods of guidance and counselling that are relevant to the culture and economies of these countries.

      This presents the discipline of guidance and counselling with two challenges :

      * the adaptation of the universal principles of guidance and counselling to suit specific requirements in multicultural contexts
      * the development of culture-resonant models for guidance and counselling in countries where these efforts have been few and far between.


      Changes in labour market dynamics


      The last decade has seen tremendous shifts in the world of work and the labour market. The notion of the traditional '9 to 5 job' has changed and the contemporary worker must perhaps consider 5 to 9 jobs in one life time! Information technology has transformed notions surrounding the locations of jobs and today, 'Geography has become history'! Outcomes of free market forces have resulted in the migration of jobs rather than people, causing loss of jobs in some countries and increase in job opportunities in others. The vagaries of the labour market raise two specific issues that guidance and counselling professionals need to consider:

      * promoting the realisation of personal potentials vs. finding a 'good job' in countries that experience a sudden increase in opportunities
      * coping with and recovering from the loss of a 'good job' in countries that have suffered the mass migration of jobs to other cheaper economies.


      Keynote Speakers:

      * Prof. Frederick Leong
      Professor of Psychology and Director, Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research (CMPR), Department of Psychology at Michigan State University
      Desiderata: Towards Indigenous Models of Career Development and Vocational Psychology

      * V. R. Devika
      Founder and Managing Trustee of the 'ASEEMA' (Without Boundaries)
      The Seven Deadly Sins: Work as Gandhi saw it

      * Kamini Ramachandran & Gideon Arulmani
      Telling Tales - Exploring the story as a mechanism for culture resonant career counselling

      * Anita Ratnam, Neelam Chibber, Raghav Rajagopalan & Ritu Sethi


      URL :  http://www.jivacareer.org/conference.html

      Ressources mises à disposition à l'issue de la manifestation : 

      • diaporamas, résumés :  http://www.jivacareer.org/.../approved-abstracts-eng.html

        Les résumés sont consultables sur le site du colloque ou téléchargeables (livre des résumés, pdf, 120 pages).
      Quelques diaporamas sont également disponibles.


      mot(s) clé(s) :  orientation professionnelle, relation formation - emploi