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Title Career counseling and constructivism : elaboration of constructs / Mary McMahon and Mark Watson editors
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series Professions - Training, Education and Demographics
Professions - Training, Education and Demographics
Contents The narrative of constructivism and career counseling / Mark Watson and Mary McMahon -- Career counseling: what's the story? / Mary McMahon and Mark Watson -- The construction of agency in career counselling / Richard A. Young and José F. Domene -- Career meaning making: an essential in life / Charles P. Chen -- Self-identity construction and reflexivity / Jean Guichard, Jacques Pouyaud, and Bernadette Dumora -- Life themes in career counselling / Peter McIlveen -- Connectedness and dialogism in career theory and practice / N. Mkhize -- Reflection: a constructive space for career development / Hazel L. Reid and Barbara Bassot -- Career sense-making: an emotional, cognitive and social process / Jennifer M. Kidd -- Qualitative career assessment / Polly Parker -- Constructivism and career counselling: past, present, and future / Mary McMahon and Mark Watson
Summary Vocational guidance fits industrial societies and career counseling suits corporate cultures. However, neither guidance nor counseling 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 behavior and life-design interventions to assist people in choosing an adapting to work roles. This book examines and elaborates on the structural elements assembled into models of self-making, career constructing, and life designing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Vocational education.
Constructivism (Psychology)
Professional education.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Careers -- General.
Professional education
Constructivism (Psychology)
Vocational education
Form Electronic book
Author McMahon, Mary, 1955-
Watson, M. B. (Mark Brownlee), 1949-
LC no. 2020686090
ISBN 9781617617072
1617617075