NEUES LERNEN : eine subjektwissenschaftlich orientierte Studie zu aktuellen Fragen der beruflichen Beratung von Jugendlichen

The practice of vocational guidance is the leading perspective of this study. Under influence of societal developments, summarized as the concept of transformation crisis, the necessity of fundamental new theoretical orientation comes into being. A merely review of vocational choice and counselling theories would grasp to short. A new perspective is necessary, able to conceptualize the coherence and totality of accelerated societal development and vocational orientation and counselling. This study takes it as a main task to develop the
methodological way to such a theoretical concept. It is orientated by the cultural-historical theory, respectively the activity theory (Tätigkeitstheorie) which allows to conceptualise the process of orientation consequently from the subject’s point of view. Chapter I („new questions“) tries an inventory of that what constitutes itself as the societal new and how it transmits on the organisation of work, on vocational education and on the phase of adolescence. Chapter II („old answers“) marks the institutional and conceptual lacks of the
traditional theories. This analysis will be countered with the basic concepts of the culturalhistorical theory (Chapter III). Chapter IV draws some basic lines of a future subject-scientific concept of vocational orientation and guidance. Chapter V finally deals with some methodological questions of empirical research.