The National Centre for Guidance in Education (NCGE) will cease to operate from 1st September 2022.
The NCGE and its Management Committee, Léargas, the Department of Education, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Solas and ETBI have been carrying out significant work since earlier this year to prepare for the reorganisation of guidance support. A Transitions Working Group and additional sub-groups have been meeting regularly to co-ordinate the reorganisation.
For further information relating to ongoing and future support in place, click HERE
The resources contained on this page are intended to support you and learners / clients.
FEATURE IMAGE COLOUR KEY: Blue: Post Primary - Purple: Further Education & Training - Green: European/International
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YOU CAN ACCESS A SHORT VIDEO GUIDE TO NAVIGATING THIS SECTION HERE. If you have any queries about these resources please e-mail: ncgeinfo@ncge.ie
This article focuses on the learner’s ‘career’ and its potential to be placed under academic scrutiny via the reflexive exploration of theory. This article demonstrates how this pedagogical approach can provide a means toward critical career understanding and how this influences future student career enactment
Ricky Gee
This video presentation focuses on a paradigm shift in the conceptualisation of career. In the labour market a career is not chosen, it is constructed through a series of choices we make throughout our lives. This transformation in the concept of career has implications to the widening paradigm of lifelong guidance and how lifelong career management skills and transversal employability skills can be learned as a continuum from comprehensive education to higher education and adult learning. There is also evidence that in addition to learning outcomes on individual level, coherent career education programmes have wider economic and social outcomes. The beneficiaries include individuals, families, communities and the organisations where they study and work, as well as society as a whole. There is an extensive research base which indicates that lifelong guidance is most effective where it meaningfully connects to the wider experience and lives of individuals and provides services relevant to their needs. It should recognise the diversity of individuals and provide services relevant to their need by combining a range of different interventions. It should also encourage the acquisition of lifelong career management skills.
You can view video recording on YouTube by clicking the 'Resource Link' below.
Raimo Vuorinen
Developing My Career Path, Developing My Learning
Technology can be transformative, improving the experience and outcomes, for both the client and the guidance counsellor. In order to use technology well, it is important to review how existing skills can be transferred to other mediums. This webinar looks at some of the key components of integrating telephone work into guidance practice including many key areas such as adapting and strengthening preexisting skills and tactics
You can view webinar recording on Vimeo by clicking the 'Resource Link' below.
Liane Hambly
There are numerous career development theories and models. The Career Sailboat Model (CSM) was created to enhance the process of career decision-making which emerges within four interactive dimensions - individual, social, political-legal-economical and chance.
Note: This document was previously uploaded to the (old) 'NCGE School Guidance Handbook'
Fidan Korkut-Owen, Selen Demirtaş-Zorbaz, Tansu Mutlu–Süral
Developing My Career Path, Developing Myself
This article focuses on what you can do about stress and stressors in your life, rather than on abstract concepts of stress.
Note: This document was previously uploaded to the (old) 'NCGE School Guidance Handbook'
Gerard Blanche
This article offers a practical tool to support guidance counsellors in their responsibility to manage ethical aspects of their work. That tool consists of a procedure to formalise the making of ethical decisions.
Note: This document was previously uploaded to the (old) 'NCGE School Guidance Handbook'
Ronny Swain
Developing Myself
The resource offers advice to guidance counsellors as they support LGBT students; address homophobic bullying and name-calling and contribute to creating and maintaining schools as safe, supportive and affirming places for all students regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Note: This document was previously uploaded to the (old) 'NCGE School Guidance Handbook'
NCGE / GLEN
A creative approach to research and counselling encourages the expression of multiple truths exposing knowledge as socially constructed (Eisner, 1988) and therefore open to reconstruction. This paper is in the form of a short narrative trail through ideas about identity and the power of discourse and language in constructing what we take to be real.
Note: This document was previously uploaded to the (old) 'NCGE School Guidance Handbook'
Dr. Grace O'Grady
The Accomplishment Interview provides an opportunity to observe the Guidance Counsellor playing modelling how to play a central role in supporting students in exploring and identifying skill sets.
You can view video recordng on Vimeo by clicking the 'Resource Link' below.
Dr.Spencer Niles and Kai Helmichk
This article provides a review of the salient information that is useful to a Guidance Counsellor in their planning to provide immediate and on-going support for bereaved students
Note: This document was previously uploaded to the (old) 'NCGE School Guidance Handbook'
Aoife M O.Brien and Conor McGuckin
