From: Svenja Tams [mailto:
mnsst@management.bath.ac.uk]
Invitation to a PDW that has been sponsored by the Careers / Management
Education and Development, and Management, Spirituality and Religion
Divisions.
The Career Development Café: A Smorgasboard of Innovative Classroom
Activities
Please join us for the Career Development Café that will take place during
the Academy of Management Meeting in Honolulu Hawaii on Sunday, August 6th
from 12 - 3 pm in Room 317B on the 3rd Floor of the Hawaii Convention
Center.
The session provides participants an opportunity to experience hands-on a
diverse range of innovative career development activities for use in
classrooms and with other groups.
The activities shared on the nine roundtables reflect rational,
socially-embedded, and identity-based approaches to career development and
aim at eliciting both objective data and subjective meanings. The diverse
range of creative methods used by our presenters provides participants with
ideas for designing their own activities in ways that are relevant to their
local contexts and teaching objectives. Activities may also offer fresh
ideas for designing activities in organizational settings and research on
careers and development of self-knowledge. There will be opportunities to
gain experience with the use of interviews, dialogue, questionnaires, card
sort activities, diaries, collages, case studies, portfolios, biographies,
and group work.
Activities include:
The passionate life and career plan (S. H. Cady);
Self-reflective activities (V. M. Godshalk, Pennsylvania State);
The Developmental Network Questionnaire (M. Higgins, Harvard Business
School),
The Holistic Development Model (M. Lips-Wiersma, U of Canterbury);
Finding your calling: Spiritual approaches to career development, (J. Neal,
U of New Haven);
Clarifying career criteria: The job description swapping exercise (T.
Nielson, Brigham Young);
The Intelligent Career Card Sort (P. Parker, U of Auckland and M. B. Arthur,
Suffolk);
Active career learning through interviewing (B. Ribbens, Western Illinois
U);
Kandinsky: Biographies as models for personal learning about work/life
development (S. Tams, U of Bath).
Discussant Judith Pringle, U of Auckland, will conclude this session.
In line with the Café theme of this workshop, we aim to provide all
participants with refreshments.
To help with our planning, please register by sending an email to Svenja
Tams, University of Bath,
s.tams@bath.ac.uk by 28 July.
We are grateful for generous financial support provided by the University of
Bath, Western Illinois University, and the Careers Division of the Academy
of Management.
Many thanks, Svenja
Svenja Tams PhD
School of Management
University of Bath
BA2 7AY, UK
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