Can you hear the people sing? Quality-development in career guidance in Norwegian Schools: A study on the importance of awareness of different voices

Abstract

Quality assurance and development are pivotal issues in Career Guidance services. There is an assumption in my project that there is an ongoing power struggle on how quality, as concept, ontologically ought to be understood between researchers, policy makers and practitioners. The project aims at building a holistic, rich and nuanced model of the multitude of understandings of the concept of quality in career guidance services in a school context. I propose a systemic model of the interrelatedness in understandings of quality in career guidance in a school context, based on a critical realistic influenced grounded theory approach.