Articles from Career-Learning Café and Cloudworks
Bill Law's writings from 2000 - 2016
Editing Bill's writings for inclusion here is a time-consuming task, as we need to locate and re-create url links, which are numerous in some of the articles. If an item you need is not yet 'live' here, please contact Dr Lyn Barham
The DOTS analysis - original version [BL01] co-authored with Tony Watts
New DOTS: career learning for the contemporary world [BL02] NICEC Briefing
How do careers really work? [BL03]
The reforming careers coordinator [BL04]
Helping Personal Advisers working with systems [BL05] 77 page booklet in 6 sections
Which way is forward? Finding new starting points for learning [BL07]
Connexions and Tomlinson - a bridge too far? [BL08]
New Start for Connexions: changing roles for careers coordinators [BL09]
Youth Matters - parleying and pushing on [BL10] Response to the Youth Matters Green Paper
Step change? [BL11] Reflection on the Youth Matters 'Next Steps'
The Matrix re-worded [BL12]
Careers education: thirty years, thirty issues, three questions [BL13]
Which way is forward? Learning from experience [BL14] Monograph 27pages
Which way is forward? Fewer lists, more stories [BL15] Monograph 34 pages
Careers education and guidance - out of the box [BL16] Monograph 36 pages
What 'LIRRIC' means for careers work [BL17]
The future of careers education in seven-and-a-half chapters [BL18]
What children learn about work: Opening Doors [BL19]
Why careers workers need three brains [BL20]
Which way is forward? Re-locating careers work in the curriculum [BL21] 23 pages
Careers education and well-being: partnerships for learning in the new curriculum [BL22] With Connexions Northamptonshire
Changing metaphors [BL23]
The careers-work crunch: the abuse of narrative and slow-burn creativity [BL24]
Low-carbon careers: sense and sustainability at work [BL25]
A fair chance in life, and is ‘unleashing aspirations’ enough? [BL26]
Reforming leadership: less urging 'wherefore!' - more explaining 'why?' [BL27]
Building on what we know: career-learning thinking for contemporary working life [BL28] 26 pages inc worksheets
The future of careers work: ten propositions in search of a profession [BL29] Monograph 35 pages
careers-work creativity - the fizz and the burn? [BL30] Cloudworks
‘Billy’: who's that kid in the café? – role and identity in careers work [BL31] Cloudworks
why don’t the poor listen to us? [BL32] Cloudworks
Place, space and social justice in education: enclaves, systems and voice [BL33] Monograph
Digital literacy: repositioning on-line careers work? [BL34] Monograph
The uses of narrative. Three-scene storyboarding: learning for living [BL35] Monograph 42 pages
Examples of three-scene storyboarding: narratives of learning-for-living [BL36] 30 pages
Future careers work: distinct or extinct? [BL37] Monograph 37 pages
what education gets from politics [BL38] Cloudworks
Education and policy – changing attitudes [BL39] Cloudworks
what educators can do [BL40] Cloudworks
Which way is forward? Change, politics and education [BL41] Monograph 44 pages
what can politics do for education? [BL42] Cloudworks
what government can do for education [BL43] Cloudworks
students - their educators - & the business-world - which way is forward? [BL44] Cloudworks
renewing the politics of education - how nations failed education - how cities liberate it - & how shock will set the agenda [BL45] Cloudworks
catching up with career management - whose voices are heeded? what interests are served? & who can afford hope? [BL46] Cloudworks
reforming careers-work partnerships [BL47] Cloudworks
the future for the careers profession [BL48] Cloudworks
holding on and letting go [BL49] Cloudworks
why fail? [BL50] Cloudworks
a glimpse of the future [BL51] Cloudworks
making the most of life's design [BL52] Cloudworks
independent minds - careers workers as agents of history [BL53] Cloudworks
no exit [BL54] Cloudworks, following the Brexit referendum
what future for Europe? [BL55] Cloudworks
education & welfare [BL56] Cloudworks
education leadership - a trio on trial [BL57] Cloudworks
new deals for careers work [BL58] Cloudworks
Philosophies for careers work - game with worksheets [BL59]
What is careers work and where is it going? [BL60]
Tales of the unexpected: seeing and believing in careers work [BL61]
Life - a user's manual [BL62]
Bumpy ride for Personal Advisers [BL63]
The heart of guidance [BL64] Text of speech at an awards ceremony
Who says guidance is such a good idea? [BL65]
What's the use of impartiality? [BL66]
LIRRIC- life-role relevance in curriculum [BL67]
Which way is forward? images, ideas, realities, uses of career metaphors [BL68] co-author David Stanbury, 40 pages
Storyboarding handbook - narratives for well-being: how we can use stories - and why we should [BL69] 45 pages
The 'coverage-processes-influences' (CPI) model - a series of five documents
CPI-a Getting to know CPI [BL70]
CPI-1 The Coverage - opportunity, role and self [BL71]
CPI-2 The Processes - learning verbs [BL72]
CPI-3 The Influences - inner life and other people [BL73]
CPI-z Why we now need a new model [BL74]
David Andrews on Careers Education in Schools [BL75] Cloudworks
why we need a career-learning theory now [BL76] Cloudworks
Bill ended the Cloudworks list with these words
...'as far as your imagination & commitment will take you...'
