Embodying integrity in careers education and guidance practice: Looking through the DOTS window
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This article explores what professional integrity looks like in careers education, information and guidance. It draws illumination from the work of Bill Law, especially the DOTS model which he developed with Tony Watts. It encourages the reader to reflect on their own professional mindset and behaviour as career practitioners, offering questions inspired by the DOTS framework and suggests ways in which applying approaches which we might more usually apply to our clients might help us to develop our professional integrity
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Law, B., & Watts, A. G. (1977). Schools, careers and community: A study of some approaches to careers education in schools. Church Information Office.
Law, B. (1981). Community interaction: a mid-range focus for theories of career development in young adults. In W. Dryden & A. G. Watts (Eds.), Guidance and counselling in Britain: A 20-year perspective (pp. 211-230). Hobsons Publishing.
Law, B. (2001) New DOTS: Career Learning for the Contemporary World. NICEC Briefing. https://hubblelive-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nicec/redactor2_assets/files/584/BL02_New_DOTS_-_Career_learning_for_the_contemporary_world.pdf
Law, B., & Watts, A.G. (2003) ‘The DOTS analysis – original version, extracted from Law, B., & Watts, A. G. (1977). Schools, careers and community: A study of some approaches to careers education in schools. Church Information Office. https://hubble-live-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonawscom/nicec/redactor2_assets/files/583/BL01_DOTS_analysis_-_original_version.pdf
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