Introduction to the special issue: Global perspectives on vocational guidance
Psychology
This special issue of The Career Development Quarterly presents the outcomes from an international symposium, titled International Perspectives on Career Development, jointly sponsored by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance and the National Career Development Association. The articles in this special issue discuss international perspectives on and comparative approaches to educational and vocational guidance that differentiate career development practices in different nations. In addition to the articles in this issue, a selection of papers presented at the symposium has been jointly published in a thematic issue of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 5(2).
Van Esbroeck R; Herr E L; Savickas M L
Career Development Quarterly
2005
2005-09
Journal Article
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Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century
adaptability; boundaryless; Career construction; Life design; Narrative therapy; Psychology
At the beginning of the 21st century, a new social arrangement of work poses a series of questions and challenges to scholars who aim to help people develop their working lives. Given the globalization of career counseling, we decided to address these issues and then to formulate potentially innovative responses in an international forum. We used this approach to avoid the difficulties of creating models and methods in one country and then trying to export them to other countries where they would be adapted for use. This article presents the initial outcome of this collaboration, a counseling model and methods. The life-designing model for career intervention endorses five presuppositions about people and their work lives: contextual possibilities, dynamic processes, non-linear progression, multiple perspectives, and personal patterns. Thinking from these five presuppositions, we have crafted a contextualized model based on the epistemology of social constructionism. particularly recognizing that an individual's knowledge and identity are the product of social interaction and that meaning is co-constructed through discourse. The life-design framework for counseling implements the theories of self-constructing [Guichard, J. (2005). Life-long self-construction. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 5, 111-124] and career construction [Savickas, M. L. (2005). The theory and practice of career construction. In S. D. Brown & R. W. Lent (Eds.), Career development and counselling: putting theory and research to work (pp. 42-70). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley] that describe vocational behavior and its development. Thus, the framework is structured to be life-long, holistic, contextual, and preventive. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Savickas M L; Nota L; Rossier J; Dauwalder J P; Duarte M E; Guichard J; Soresi S; Van Esbroeck R; van Vianen A E M
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2009
2009-12
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2009.04.004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jvb.2009.04.004</a>
The internationalization of educational and vocational guidance
Psychology
The authors identify and discuss the main themes from the discourse on the internationalization of educational and vocational guidance at the 2004 Symposium on International Perspectives on Career Development, cosponsored by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance and the National Career Development Association. Participants from 46 countries discussed international perspectives on and comparative features of educational and vocational guidance. They concentrated on issues of designing and adapting models, methods, and materials for career education and counseling. Three additional themes revolved around the importance of public policy initiatives, training enough practitioners to meet the growing international need for career services, and the promise of information technology for expanding the delivery of educational and vocational guidance and for supporting career counselors.
Savickas M L; Van Esbroeck R; Herr E L
Career Development Quarterly
2005
2005-09
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2005.tb00143.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/j.2161-0045.2005.tb00143.x</a>