Abstract

Vocational designing and career counseling for a new society should contribute to the improvement of living conditions for all people and participate in facing what are called wicked problems, with complex approaches that hold together the micro, meso, and macro-social levels and awareness of a socio-economic system unscrupulously centered on unfettered profit. Vocational designing and career counseling can no longer fail to question their own contribution, their own approaches and instruments, their own theoretical models that maintain the status quo and increases inequality; they should increasingly support the design of the future by combining the intertwining of individual choices with social responsibility and respect for the rights of all people, living beings and the planet.

Brief Biography

Full professor of Vocational Psychology and Psychology of Inclusion at University of Padova, where she directs the Larios Laboratory (for career research and intervention), has directed the University Centre for Disability and Inclusion (2010-2020), and served as the Delegate for Rector for Inclusion and Disability (2015-2021). She coordinates the Working Table ‘Inclusion and Social Justice’ within the Network of the Italian University for Sustainable Development; she is the President of the Italian Society of Vocational Guidance, and past President of the European Society of Vocational Designing and Career Counseling, editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. She represents the University of Padova in the UNITWIN NETWORK “Life Designing Interventions for Decent Work and Sustainable Development”, expression of the UNESCO Chair for Lifelong Counseling. She is a member of the organizing committee of the Post graduated course in Career counseling for inclusion, sustainability and social justice at University of Padova. She has participated in the GdL of contrasting inequalities of the Ministry of University and Research in 2021 and now is expert member of the Vocational Guidance and Career Counseling commission of the The Conference of Italian University Rectors.