Saturday, 16 May 2009

Not long to go- what theory will stay with me??

I have already blogged on my like for the Happenstance theory; however I think that the idea that will stay with me the most when I leave is the idea of multiculturalism.
All the placements which I have been on have incorporated diverse groups and individuals. I have seen the SERVE project in action which aims to help young men/women out of the gang culture in the east end of Glasgow; I have been to a group for young teenage mums looking to get back into education or work, careers Scotland now translates their materials into a number of languages, observed how gender bias is addressed in career lessons and many more relevant examples.
I think as a career adviser it is important that we are aware of any assumptions or bias that we may have when giving guidance and I think personally it is important to do this continually throughout your career as more multicultural issue crop up. I think it would be dangerous to simply try to fit multicultural groups/individuals into the box which you want them to fit into. It is important that we allow there to be individualistic guidance as much as we can and respect the differences that people bring to our society and simply not try to integrate them fully into our society as then everybody would become the same; more or less.

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