Il modello dell’Activation du Développement Vocationnel et Personnel in chiave neurodidattica

This paper offers a neurodidactic reinterpretation of the ADVP method (Activation du Développement Vocationnel et Personnel), developed in the 1970s at Université Laval in Québec by Pelletier, Noiseux, and Bujold (1974). Grounded in robust theoretical foundations — including Super’s theory of career development (1957), Tiedeman and O’Hara’s decision-making theory (1963), and Guilford and Hoepfner’s model of intelligence (1971) — the ADVP method structures the process of vocational decision-making into four developmental tasks: exploration, crystallization, specification, and implementation. Each task is associated with a specific mode of thinking: creative, categorical, evaluative, and implicative (Guilford, 2003). This study seeks to investigate, through the lens of embodied cognition and in light of relevant neuroscientific literature, the neural correlates and brain networks underlying the modes of thinking identified by the ADVP model. The aim is to highlight the connection between the mind — understood as the various cognitive models that underpin the consolidation of career choices — and the brain, conceived as the ensemble of neural mechanisms and connectionist processes that enable the deployment of these vocational development schemas.