Social justice and career development: Progress, problems, and possibilities

McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; McWha‐Hermann, Ishbel

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103492

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“…Concepts such as sustainable decent work (McMahon & Watson, 2020) and life design (Hartung, 2019), intended to address inequalities and minimize damage to the environment, may become the primary focus of career guidance as a response to the challenges outlined above. For example, McWhirter and McWha-Hermann (2021) have called for a greater critical consciousness among vocational and industrial organizational psychologists. They assert that a social justice perspective must be based on contextinformed scholarship.…”

Section: Career Guidance and Counselling In The Current Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Young

Chi

2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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The problems and challenges people in both Eastern and Western societies face regarding life work and career are complex and in flux. These issues range from a neoliberal socio-economic climate to the increasing prevalence of the gig economy and part-time work. These problems, compounded by racism and social injustice, threaten the existential and moral commitment required not only for sustained work involvement but also for constructing a meaningful life. The neoliberal agenda appears to give pre-eminence to individual agency. However, at the same time, it challenges the joint collaborative and cooperative requirements needed to construct meaningful long-term carreers. These challenges to long-term career are elaborated. In this article, we address this problem by examining the conceptual link between short-term, goaldirected actions, mid-term projects and long-term career, in an approach known as contextual action theory. Essentially, this framework suggests that long-term career is constructed through in-the-moment goal-directed actions and mid-term projects, both of which require significant components to contribute to a meaningful and motivated career. This article provides the opportunity to examine the characteristics of contextual action theory that contribute to addressing the challenges to long term career, including goals as explanatory, relation to the other, the process of change, culture, and social justice. These characteristics are illustrated by referring to current research and practice that have emerged from contextual action theory.

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Section: Career Guidance and Counselling In The Current Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Young

Chi

2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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“…Daher sind Arbeitsumwelten für Ergotherapeut*innen, die Erwachsene in ihrer Gesundheit fördern wollen, von Bedeutung. Zudem bleiben in diesem Setting ungerechte Zugänge zu Wahl- und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten von Tätigkeiten oft unbeachtet 5 .…”

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Betätigungsgerechte Unternehmen schaffen – Occupational Justice in der Arbeitswelt

Kinyara¹

2022

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Inwiefern können ergotherapeutische und betätigungsorientierte Perspektiven die Gesundheit im betrieblichen Kontext fördern? Muriel Marieke Kinyara arbeitete vier Jahre lang in der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention. Ihre Erfahrungen reflektiert sie anhand ergotherapeutischer Konzepte von Betätigung und Konzepten aus der Occupational Science. Die Erkenntnisse überträgt sie in das betriebliche Arbeitsfeld.

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“…Since the publication of these books, interest in the area has continued to intensify with many other writers, researchers and practitioners exploring similar issues (e.g. Chadderton;Skovhus & Poulsen, 2021;Staunton & Rogosic, 2021) including an increasing number of voices addressing these issues from the global south (see Sultana, 2020) as well as a growing interest in social justice within the field's heartland of vocational psychology (Blustein et al, 2019;McWhirter & McWha-Hermann, 2021).…”

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Five signposts to a socially just approach to career guidance

Hooley¹,

Sultana²,

Thomsen³

2021

NICEC Journal

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Manuscripts are welcomed focusing on any form of scholarship that can be related to the NICEC Statement. This could include, but is not confined to, papers focused on policy, theory-building, professional ethics, values, reflexivity, innovative practice, management issues and/or empirical research. Articles for the journal should be accessible and stimulating to an interested and wide readership across all areas of career development work. Innovative, analytical and/or evaluative contributions from both experienced contributors and first-time writers are welcomed. Main articles should normally be 3,000 to 3,500 words in length and should be submitted to one of the co-editors by email. Articles longer than 3,500 words can also be accepted by agreement. Shorter papers, opinion pieces or letters are also welcomed for the occasional 'debate' section. Please contact the relevant issue co-editor(s) prior to submission to discuss the appropriateness of the proposed article and to receive a copy of the NICEC style guidelines. Final decisions on inclusion are made following full manuscript submission and a process of peer review.

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Social justice and career development: Progress, problems, and possibilities

Cited by 31 publications

References 179 publications

Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Betätigungsgerechte Unternehmen schaffen – Occupational Justice in der Arbeitswelt

Five signposts to a socially just approach to career guidance

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