Title for the national section?
15-April-2005
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A proposal from the national focus group in Finland
Dear colleagues,
We had the first meeting of our national focus group on Tuesday, April 12th. We discussed about the goals and content of the project. As a whole the meeting was productive.
We discussed about the target group of the site and also the title of the national site. The members mentioned that the title National guidance research forum might be a threshold for the users. If we are emphasising the dialogue between research and practice, could we express this focus already in the title; for example "From guidance research to guidance practice". What do you think about this? Does this give impression of a top-down approach and does not take into account the dimension from practice to research? Would there be another option to frase it like this: The national guidance research & practise forum?
Another question was focusing on the concept "Supporting innovative guidance and counselling" What do we mean by this. Is this project and knowledge extraction the innovative element or are we searching and collecting innovative practices for peer learning purposes?
Looking forward to your comments,
Merja & Raimo
4 Replies (comments)
1 Reply to Raimo and Merja
Ideas about section titles
Your experiences of the first Finnish Focus Group will provide us with extremely valuable material for our next project meeting in Denmark.
The questions you pose about titles that accurately reflect the approach we are trying to take are key.
I think we should try to avoid titles that imply a 'top down' approach, so for that reason, 'From guidance research to guidance practice' may give the impression that practice has everything to learn from research, but that research has nothing to learn from practice!
Regarding your query about 'Supporting Innovative guidance and counselling' - don't read too much into a title that was constructed for the purpose, mainly, of the application form! However, the idea behind the words related to the notion that creating a community of interest in guidance and counselling in itself represents supporting innovative practice. Adding another requirment - that contributions have to be innovative - maybe demanding too much.
What do others think?
jenny bimrose, 19-April-2005 15:03:41
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Answer to Raimo's question
Regarding the question about the massage of the title - From research to practice - in our oppinion it does put emphasis on the research aspect. In Slovenia the researchers in general have priviliged status. We think practitioners should be more encouraged to actively participate in discussions about career guidance and share their experience. Therefore we want to equaly outline research and practice.
Barbara and Jana
Jana Bervar, 28-April-2005 15:10:02
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3 Answer to Raimo`s question
A suggestion
I agree with all the previous points about avoiding a "top down research to practice" emphasis in any national site titles. It`s interesting to note that just beneath the EGCRF logo, the first subtitle on the joint publicity leaflet is "Linking research and practice" with the word "linking" implying a two-way interaction between research and practice. Could one possible example of a national title be: "The National Guidance Forum: Linking Research and Practice"? Geoff
Geoff Gration, 11-May-2005 11:19:58
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4 Top down?
Two suggestions for alternative (sub)titles
Two suggestions for alternative (sub)titles
Links between practice and research
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Informing practice through research
Peter
Peter Plant, 25-May-2005 21:51:32
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