New Article – Labour market information and social justice: a critical examination

I have just had a new article published in the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance on LMI and social justice. It is available through Open Access so anyone should be available to download it. This is an article which I wrote with Karla Rogosic while she was working as an intern for iCeGS. In it we review a range of literature on LMI and explore how we could develop more theoretically critical perspectives on LMI. I have also recently had another journal article published on a similar topic which you can read about here. This is part of ongoing research interest I have in LMI which I have done a series of presentations on before here, here and here.

Here is a quick video about the article

And here is the abstract

Labour Market Information forms a central place in career practice and how individuals enact their careers. This paper makes use of Alvesson and Sandberg’s (Constructing research questions: doing interesting research. Sage, Thousand Oaks, 2013) methodology of focussing research on theoretical assumptions to construct a critical literature review on the relationship between Labour Market Information and career guidance. This paper presents six theoretical conceptions from the career literature: Contact, Rationalism, Nomad, Adaptability, Constructivist and Social Justice. We will argue for the need to move towards more constructivist understandings of Labour Market Information as well understandings linked to more critical understandings of the labour market.