Developing a ‘productive’ account of young people’s transition perspectives

Vaughan, Karen; Roberts, Josie

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“…These two prototypes were also supported by empirical evidence in Taiwan (S. Liu, 1999;S. Liu & Chu, 1999 (Vaughan & Roberts, 2007).…”

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“…These two prototypes were also supported by empirical evidence in Taiwan (S. Liu, 1999;S. Liu & Chu, 1999 (Vaughan & Roberts, 2007).More interesting was that each prototype had been found to have both positive and negative effects on career development (Hsiao, 2006;Kao & S. Liu, 2012;Lee, 2010;Liu et al, 2013;Mendes & Moslehuddin, 2006;Peng, Hung, Lin, & Liu, 2013;Reindal, 1999;Samuels & Pryce, 2008). Also, these two prototypes are not mutually exclusive, as they can nurture each other and bring out fluidity.…”

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“…Liu & Chu, 1999). Also, in a New Zealand study, security and exploration were identified as two core values underlying ideal career visions and projecting strategies (Vaughan & Roberts, 2007).…”

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Action Research Using a Chinese Career Model Based on the Wisdom of Classic of Changes and its Applications

Liu

Wang

Deng

et al. 2014

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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T o challenge the Taiwan Ministry of Education's (TMOE) dominant enforcement of a personenvironment fit model, the Chinese Career Research Center incorporated yin-yang alternation principles from the Classic of Changes (I Ching, Yi Jing or ) to develop the model of career development touching the sky yet grounded (TSG) and corresponding practice guidelines, a career website (CCN), and four career service projects. Using Lewin's (1946) cyclical-spiral process of action research, CCN and TSG service projects were promoted to complement the TMOE's fit model, and feedback was utilised to revise our TSG model and its applications. Yin-yang alternation principles and the four stages of chien (the creative) from the Classic of Changes were applied to develop social action strategies. Social change was indicated by counsellors' and students' changes in their career views, as well as the TMOE's direct financial support for TSG service projects. This progress is encouraging for whoever is interested in developing culture-inclusive indigenous psychology with practical outcomes.Keywords: career development, career counselling, Chinese philosophy, Classic of Changes (Yi Jing), indigenous psychology Social Problems and Research PurposesIn this fast-paced world, change has become the only certainty in most people's career path. Both Miller (1995) and Trevor-Roberts (2006) point out that the career congruence model from modernism has limitations in coping with career uncertainty. Empirical evidence supports how individuals' career development has been gradually shifted from a traditional linear pattern to boundaryless/protean patterns (Bussolari & Goodell, 2009;Forrier, Sels, & Stynen, 2009;Harrison, 2006;Stoltz, Wolff, Monroe, Mazahreh, & Farris, 2013), within which certainty and perceived continuity needed to be constructed by recognising or appreciating change (Adams, 2006;Pryor & Bright, 2003a). Career development has been reframed as a process of choosing an educational or occupational route for 'identity investments' (Wijers & Meijers, 1996). Meanwhile, the Taiwan Ministry of Education (TMOE) has been promoting a focus on higher education's function in vocational practicality in training to Address for correspondence: Changhua City, Changhua County, 50058 Taiwan. Email: gushliu@cc.ncue.edu.tw meet the job market's needs ( ). The TMOE has also sponsored a career website, the Career and Competency Assessment Network (UCAN), and enforced its use in all colleges and universities in Taiwan. Additionally, employability has been listed as one criterion to evaluate the performance of colleges/universities; hence, many colleges/universities have revised their academic curriculum to meet the job demands of business and industry. As a result, college-level academic teaching has in some ways become job skill training. The focus of college career assistance has also dramatically shifted from career exploration and development to vocational decision-making and employability enhancement.A similar TMOE policy has been enforced in ...

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“…These two prototypes were also supported by empirical evidence in Taiwan (S. Liu, 1999;S. Liu & Chu, 1999 (Vaughan & Roberts, 2007).…”

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Action Research Using a Chinese Career Model Based on the Wisdom of Classic of Changes and its Applications

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Wang

Deng

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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…These designs and structures may be more successful at achieving the attributes of graduateness because they provide opportunities to contextualise in practice and to experience forms of identity-making during the crucial period of young adulthood. Such pathways facilitate learning during critical transitions to the workplace at graduate levels (Escolas 2004;Fielding 2006) or even earlier when the youth of today start work at secondary school ages (Billett & Ovens 2007;Vaughn & Roberts 2007).…”

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Navigating the wilderness of becoming professional

Johnsson

Hager

2008

Journal of Workplace Learning

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The wilderness is often conceived as a place where persons can become confused or get into a wild condition (Nash 1982) and the 'wilderness years' as a time of uncertainty where the vastness of life, choices and roles bewilder actions that could be taken. Such spatial and temporal conditions could aptly be applied to graduates making the transition from safe contexts of educational preparation to becoming professionals at work. Our paper examines the nature of learning discovered by recent graduates participating in a symphony orchestra-initiated development program designed to nurture them through the transition to becoming professional orchestral musicians. We argue that this empirical example helps to support a conception of learning as an embodied and constructed experience with others in context. Here, learning to become 'a whole musician' is facilitated by guided contextualisation, a process that differs from conventional discussions of skill-based novice learning and mentorship. The competency that is being developed is one of learning how to become, forming a sense of identity as broader musical citizens as well as becoming members of more instrumental communities. Such attributes of graduateness are less about applying disciplinary or generic skills and more about committing to a form of lifelong learning that is relationally-based, a critical part of graduates developing a fitness for professional practice and the persistence to emerge from the wilderness to becoming professional.

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“…Career aspiration therefore occupies a very important place in education. Vaughan and Roberts (2007) assert that a career journey is a very complex, non-linear pathway which takes many turns over a person's lifetime and, as such, one needs to better understand the role of unpredictability in career decisions and what tools might be useful to help manage this.…”

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Relationship between career aspirations and study behaviours among second year distance learners of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Arhin¹

2018

Afr Educ Res J

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The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between career aspirations and study behaviours among distance learners of the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) who performed poorly during their first year of study. The correlation research design that employed the explanatory sequential mixed methods approach was adopted for the study. Specifically, three hundred and sixty eight (368) participants were purposively selected, out of which 357 were used for analysis. Social Cognitive Career Theory as postulated by Lent et al. (1994) formed the study's theoretical framework. Data analysis was done using the descriptive statistics and tetrachoric correlation coefficient as well as the Merriam process of analytical coding. The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the majority of participants had positive career aspirations as well as good study behaviours. However, the correlation coefficient was r(355) = .273, p = .01, meaning the correlation between the two variables was statistically significant but weak. The study recommends that, in order to help boost students' academic performance, management of the College of Distance Education of the University of Cape Coast should organise periodic career guidance seminars for students, to stimulate their career awareness and nurture their enthusiasm.

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Developing a ‘productive’ account of young people’s transition perspectives

Cited by 16 publications

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Action Research Using a Chinese Career Model Based on the Wisdom of Classic of Changes and its Applications

Action Research Using a Chinese Career Model Based on the Wisdom of Classic of Changes and its Applications

Navigating the wilderness of becoming professional

Relationship between career aspirations and study behaviours among second year distance learners of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana

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