Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century
Détails
ID Serval
serval:BIB_EC2EE24AA318
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century
Périodique
Journal of Vocational Behavior
ISSN
0001-8791
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2009
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
75
Numéro
3
Pages
239-250
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication type : Article
Résumé
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.
Mots-clé
Adaptability, Career construction, Life design, Narrative therapy, BOUNDARYLESS
Web of science
Création de la notice
21/12/2009 11:38
Dernière modification de la notice
20/08/2019 16:14