The aim of the workshop is to enrich the knowledge of teaching and supporting students’ learning concerning social inclusion. We elaborate an understanding of inclusion/exclusion in three perspectives: social, structural and individual, based on Axel Honneth’s theory of patterns of intersubjective recognition. Given the social norms and the structural constraints in the society, we ask: “What is the career counselors’ degrees of freedom in the meeting with clients in a transition from education to work, from work to work, from work to education or from work to retirement?” The workshop’s background is the teaching of social inclusion in a master’s degree in career guidance in Norway.