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Acknowledgements

Introduction: telling tales in guidance and counselling in learning

RICHARD EDWARDS

ROGER HARRISON

ALAN TAIT

PART I User and practitioner discourses

1 The client's perceptions of guidance

AMY BLAIR

JOANNA McPAKE

PAMELA MUNN

2 Taking credits: a case study of the guidance process into a Training Credits scheme

PHIL HODKINSON

ANDREW C. SPARKES

3 The counsellor's story

JOHN MCLEOD

4 The teacher's experience of guidance

CATHY HOWIESON

SHEILA SEMPLE

PART II Professional discourses

5 What is a profession? Experience versus expertise

JAN WILLIAMS

6 Re-thinking the relationship between theory and practice: practitioners as map-readers, map-makers -- or jazz players?

AUDREY COLLIN

7 The challenge of change: developing educational guidance for adults

UNIT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION

8 School counsellors and guidance networks: roles revisited

JUDI MILLER

ROBERT MANTHEI

ALISON GILMORE

PART III Management and policy discourses

9 Counselling in a secondary setting -- developing policy and practice

COLLEEN MCLAUGHLIN

10 Managing guidance in Further Education

JACKIE SADLER

KATE ATKINSON

11 Models of student guidance in a changing 14-19 education and training system

A.G. WATTS

MICHAEL YOUNG

12 The measurement of quality in guidance

RUTH HAWTHORN

PART IV Academic discourses

13 The politics of careers education and guidance: a case for scrutiny

INGE BATES

14 Careers guidance in the knowledge society

G.A. WIJERS

F. MEIJERS

15 Confessing all? A `postmodern guide' to the guidance and counselling of adult learners

ROBIN USHER

RICHARD EDWARDS

16 Accounts and the development of shared understanding in employment training interviews

NEIL MERCER

JO LONGMAN

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