Career Counseling & Constructivism: Elaboration Of Constructs

Description: Vocational guidance fits industrial societies and career counselling suits corporate cultures. However, neither guidance nor counselling seems to be the best practice for career intervention in the global economy of the information era. Thus, the emergence of career construction theory for comprehending vocational behaviour and life-design interventions to assist people in choosing an adapting to work roles. This book examines and elaborates the structural elements assembled into models of self-making, career constructing, and life designing.

Contents: Foreword; Preface; The narrative of constructivism & career counseling; Career counseling: What's the Story?; The Construction of Agency in Career Counselling; Career Meaning Making: An Essential in Life; Self-identity construction & reflexivity; Life Themes in Career Counselling; Connectedness & dialogism in career theory & practice; Reflection: A constructive space for career development; Career Sense-making: An Emotional, Cognitive & Social Process; Qualitative career assessment; Constructivism & career counselling: Past, present & future; Index.