Abstract
In this paper, we present the concept of the project «Visualized vocational aspirations: Potentials of photography for career counselling and vocational preparation», which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The research project is a cooperation between the «Zurich University of Teacher Education» («Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich») and the «Laufbahnzentrum» (Centre of Vocational Counselling) Zürich. Vocational education often is largely language-based, which could be a problem for the lower achieving students. Visual stimulation could be a means to support the learning process of this group of at risk learners.
Highlights
In this paper, we present the concept of the project «Visualized vocational aspirations: Potentials of photography for career counselling and vocational preparation», which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
In light of these developments in career counselling we found it useful to reflect about connections to the concept of media ecology as it is expressed by a definition of Lance Strate: «It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs» (Strate 1999)
As Larry Sullivan writes in the SAGE Glossary of Social and Behavioral Science, «Media Ecology is best understood as an approach, rather than a strict ideology, to understanding the media as environments
Summary
We present the concept of the project «Visualized vocational aspirations: Potentials of photography for career counselling and vocational preparation», which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. An ecological approach of narrative career education The idea for this project came from media educators at the Zürich
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