This year iCeGS will be celebrating their 25th anniversary and our Annual lecture will be an opportunity to join the staff, associates and alumni, to celebrate with a mince pie and seasonal drink. This year the Universities carol service will also take place after the event. The event will take place at the University of Derby’s Kedleston Road campus On December 5th at 2.30 and is free to delegates.
The lecture will be delivered by Professor Pete Robertson from Edinburgh Napier University. Pete is a fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) and President Elect of the Career Development Institute (CDI).
The lecture is entitled Career Development as Freedom. The lecture will explore the Capability Approach and its potential to provide a way of thinking about career development that links theory, practice, and policy. Considering theory first, the Capability Approach provides a broad-brush way of looking at how people’s careers are going. It shows how they can be supported to take steps towards doing what they want to do, being what they want to be, and leading a life that they have reason to value. Turning next to practice, the Capability Approach can describe how pragmatic guidance helps people to recognise and build on their strengths, broaden their options, and make choices aligned with their values. The key role of autonomy and freedom in ethical practice will be highlighted. Finally, it will explore the potential for the Capability Approach to inform how the career development profession engages with public policy in a way that is attuned to the politics of freedom, and to the new economics of the 21st Century.
If you would like to join us, please follow this link to register for the event
Adventures in Career Development 