Narrating career, positioning identity: Career identity as a narrative practice

LaPointe, Kirsi

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2010.04.003

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“…They explain that macro-level research tends to be based on institutional theory and regards professional roles as fixed within institutionalized systems, whilst micro-level studies tend to focus on how individuals construct their professional identities in an organizational context, but do not pay much attention to institutional influences. For instance, studies of micro level processes have shown that individuals adjust to new work roles by experimenting with provisional selves (Ibarra, 1999), through interrelated identity and work learning cycles (Pratt, Rockmann, & Kaufmann, 2006), or by constructing narratives (Ibarra & Barbulascu, 2010;LaPointe, 2010).…”

Section: Identity and Professional Role Identitymentioning

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Collaborative IT offshoring relationships and professional role identities: Reflections from a field study

Zimmermann

Ravishankar

2011

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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While IT offshoring has generated heated debates both in scholarly circles and in the popular press, its impact on professional role identities and career experiences of situated individuals in both onshore and offshore locations has received much less attention. In this paper, we present a qualitative case study featuring a large global German technology firm and examine the multiple ways in which working within a collaborative offshoring arrangement has influenced the reconfiguration of German and Indian respondents' professional role identities. In light of these changes, the findings also highlight how emerging offshoring practices led to an ongoing reassessment of our respondents' career aspirations and strategies. In particular, our study draws attention to the often complex means deployed by individuals working in an offshoring environment to further their career prospects. From a practitioner perspective, we suggest several steps managers can take to help employees overcome the anxiety and insecurities which inevitably seem to accompany the offshoring phenomenon.

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Section: Identity and Professional Role Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative IT offshoring relationships and professional role identities: Reflections from a field study

Zimmermann

Ravishankar

2011

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…Bron (2000) has embarked on this task, but she has had no followers yet. In the field of career counselling, there is an emerging body of research that uses different concepts of narrative and narrative analysis (Cohen & Mallon, 2001;Del Corso & Rehfuss, 2011;LaPointe, 2010LaPointe, , 2013Reid & West, 2011;Savickas, et al, 2009) but they use the concept of biographical learning only occasionally. Besides issues related to disruptions and changes in people's professional career, it would be fruitful to address questions about transitions into and within the criminal career, including people's efforts to leave a criminal career and make the transition in to a non-criminal life-style.…”

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Biographical learning: two decades of research and discussion

Hallqvist

2013

Educational Review

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Biographical learning: Two decades of research and discussion AbstractThe article discusses the concept of biographical learning and reviews previous research on the subject. Several tensions between different versions of the concept are recognized, and a wide range of research areas in which the concept has been used are identified and presented.The general idea in the biographical learning tradition regarding the occurrence of general conceptions of one's biography, as well as the idea of narrative coherence, is discussed critically. New areas of research are suggested.3

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“…In building such an identity, people can become reflective environmentalists. For that, a conversation as identity is not constructed by the individual alone (a constructivist process) [27] but can only emerge and exist as a result of an interaction with others (a constructionist approach) [19]. Rather than residing in the individual, identity manifests itself in discourse.…”

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“…Identity responds to the contexts that evoke different selves, what [17] referred to as "geographies of self-making". So identity continuously adapts and changes in a practice of positioning, whereby "master narratives" [18] and discourses-as LaPointe [19] puts it-"position individuals and construct their identities in the interaction between narrator and audience. ( .…”

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Environmental Identity and Natural Resources: A Dialogical Learning Process

2016

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Abstract:In this article, we elaborate on the role of dialogical learning in identity formation in the context of environmental education. First, we distinguish this kind of learning from conditioning and reproductive learning. We also show that identity learning is not self-evident and we point out the role of emotions. Using Dialogical Self Theory, we then suggest that individuals do not have an "identity hierarchy" but a dialogical self that attaches meaning to experiences in both conscious and unconscious ways. We describe the learning process that enables the dialogical self to develop itself, and we elaborate on the characteristics of a good dialogue. We conclude with some remarks expanding room for a dialogue that would foster identity learning.

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Narrating career, positioning identity: Career identity as a narrative practice

Cited by 181 publications

References 27 publications

Collaborative IT offshoring relationships and professional role identities: Reflections from a field study

Collaborative IT offshoring relationships and professional role identities: Reflections from a field study

Biographical learning: two decades of research and discussion

Environmental Identity and Natural Resources: A Dialogical Learning Process

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