New Views: how a focus on career learning in compulsory school can broaden the educational opportunities for pupils

This paper presents preliminary results from a Danish research and development project on career learning in compulsory school. The aim of the project was to broaden the perspective on education and world of work among pupils in the final years of compulsory school through career learning activities based on experience-based learning and reflection. To that end, teachers and guidance practitioners worked together with VET-schools, Upper Secondary Schools and local companies in order for the pupils to both experience and sense different educational and occupational opportunities and systematically reflect on these experiences in connection with the subjects of the school and the pupils’ own self-insight.