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Professional Ethics as a Tool to Investigate the Professionalisation of Guidance and Occupational Integration Workers at University

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This contribution intends to analyse a focus group comprised of 20 female guidance and occupational integration workers, who all are entrusted with the same mission and who operate in the same context. They differ, however, in their job affiliations (Career Advisory Services and National Education Psychologists). This work falls within the framework of a research intervention design (Broussal et al., 2015). Here, we address its component devoted to professional ethics, a theme selected by the participants themselves. The session opened with the question, “In your opinion, what are the right approaches to provide ethically guided counselling and support?” and lasted for one hour. After the transcription phase of the focus group’s output, we used the Iramuteq software (Ratinaud, 2014), which allowed to identify semantic organisations and to frame the topics that were of concern to the participants. In turn, this provided the means to carry out a Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC) and then a Correspondence Factor Analysis (CFA). This analysis was later submitted to all the participants and their responses to its results were studied (Bergier, 2001). Our focal issue relies on the assumption that the “reflexive, processual, and place-dependent” characteristics of ethics make them a representation object conducive to debate. This is possible through the use of a focus group and the investigation of participants’ responses to the data collected. These settings enable to shed light on professional representations and thus may contribute to the professionalisation of the participants. The first results of the CFA distinguished six discourse clusters and revealed predominating themes that we named: “Implicit sharing”; “Necessity of a common definition of professional ethics”; “Importance of a sympathetic approach”; “Professional ethics promotes questioning”; “Tension between personal and professional ethics”; and “Good information is tailored information”. Through CFA, we can discern that in the social representation of ethics of these professionals there exist two particularly significant areas of tension: firstly, “Job or Profession” and secondly, “The said and the unsaid”. The first conclusions show foremost the significance of the ethics theme when we interview these professionals. Indeed, ethics are seen as “a guarantee of the quality of a profession that tends to emancipate itself from the control imposed on its practices by other professionals and/or regulatory requirements” (Monceau, 2006, p. 57). Finally, we derive from the discourse of these professionals a need to coalesce and the aspiration to generate shared knowledge transcending the scope of the job concept.

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Naïma Marengo. Professional Ethics as a Tool to Investigate the Professionalisation of Guidance and Occupational Integration Workers at University. 15 th Journée Scientifique des Jeunes Chercheurs (JSJC), Nov 2020, Lille, France. ⟨hal-04017561⟩
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