Before reading the Granello (2001) article, I had never heard of Bloom's taxonomy being used to improve literature reviews. It was difficult for me to picture the differences between each of the stages: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. I believe that most of my papers in Graduate school have been between the Analysis and Synthesis stages. Performing peer reviews during last class really helped me to connect what stage of Bloom's taxonomy each paper was mostly under. I liked getting an idea of what the other groups are going to use in their workshops.
In chapter 13, Brown (2012) discusses career development in postsecondary educational institutions. Brown starts the chapter off by talking about underemployment, which includes workers who are in jobs that do not let them use the skills and knowledge that they received during their education (Brown, 2012, p. 292). I can see how the number of people who are underemployed could be high. I know several people that I graduated with that are working in retail because they cannot find any jobs in psychology. My sister has a job in accounting that only requires a high school diploma. However, she has a Bachelor's degree in accounting and she says that there is no way that a person with just a high school diploma could possibly know how to do everything that she does. Therefore, she is underemployed because her job only requires a high school diploma but yet she is still using her accounting education knowledge.
The author says that students who are enrolled in postsecondary institutions need specialized career services (Brown, 2012, p. 294). I began my postsecondary education at a community college. They had academic advising and career services in the same office. Therefore, I received both career counseling and advising by the same person. Professors did not provide advising at that community college. I thought that was too much information at one time and one session. I would have preferred to have my adviser be a professor and to receive career services by a career counselor.
In chapter 18, Brown (2012) discusses the trends in career information, career assessment, and career counseling. I was surprised to see that career development graduate classes will continue to decrease their focus on career information (Brown, 2012, p. 376). I understand that this allows the career development classes to focus on career counseling. However, in order to help a client with choosing a career, the career counselor needs to have extensive knowledge on career information. Career counselors need to be able to tell their clients about different jobs that match the clients' interests, values, and skills. Career information can be obtained through training. However, career information needs to continue to be focused on in graduate school so that future career counselors have a basic understanding of career information and where to find it, in order to be able to help their clients.
Resources
Brown, D. (2012). Career information, career counseling, and career development (10th ed.). New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Granello, D. H. (2001). Promoting cognitive complexity in graduate written work: Using Bloom's taxonomy as a pedagogical tool to improve literature reviews. Counselor Education & Supervision, 40, 292-307.
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