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The Oxford Handbook of Career Development provides a comprehensive overview of the career development field. It features contributions from 42 leading scholars, addressing the context, theory, and practice of career development in the contemporary world.
List of contents
- Preface
- Tony Watts
- 1. Introduction: Rethinking Career Development
- Phil McCash, Tristram Hooley, and Peter J. Robertson
- Section 1: Contexts
- 2. The Decline of Decent Work in the Twenty-First: Implications for Career Development
- Ellie Gutowski, David L. Blustein, Maureen E. Kenny and Whitney Erby
- 3. The Economic Outcomes of Career Development Programmes
- Christian Percy and Vanessa Dodd
- 4. Career Development and Human Capital Theory: Preaching the "Education Gospel"
- Tristram Hooley
- 5. Linking Educators and Employers: Taxonomies, Rationales and Barriers
- Christian Percy and Elnaz Kashefpakdel
- 6. Authentic Education for Meaningful Work: Beyond "Career Management Skills"
- Ronald G. Sultana
- 7. Career Guidance: Living on the Edge of Public Policy
- John McCarthy and Tibor Bors Borbély-Pecze
- 8. The Aims of Career Development Policy: Towards a Comprehensive Framework
- Peter J.Robertson
- Section 2: Theory
- 9. Career Development Theory: An Integrated Analysis
- Julia Yates
- 10. Organisational Career Development Theory: Weaving Individuals, Organisations
- and Social Structures
- Kate Mackenzie Davey
- 11. Organisational and Managerial Careers: A Coevolutionary View
- Hugh Gunz and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
- 12. The Narrative Turn in Career Development Theories: An Integrative Perspective
- Jérôme Rossier, Paulo Miguel Cardoso and Maria Eduarda Duarte
- 13. The Positioning of Social Justice: Critical Challenges for Career Development
- Barrie Irving
- 14. Cultural Learning Theory and Career Development
- Phil McCash
- 15. The Cultural Preparedness Perspective of Career Development
- Gideon Arulmani, Sachin Kumar, Sunita Shrestha, Maribon Viray and
- Sajma Aravind
- 16. Career Development Theories from the Global South
- Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro
- 17. Cross-Cultural Career Psychology from a Critical Psychology Perspective
- Graham B. Stead and Ashley E. Poklar
- Section: Practice
- 18. The Career Development Profession: Professionalisation, Professionalism, and
- Professional Identity
- John Gough and Siobhan Neary
- 19. Transformative Career Education in Schools and Colleges
- Anthony Barnes
- 20. Labour Market Information for Career Development: Pivotal or Peripheral?
- Jenny Bimrose
- 21. The Role of Digital Technology in Career Development
- Tristram Hooley and Tom Staunton
- 22. Career Assessment
- Peter McIlveen, Harsha N. Perera, Jason Brown, Michael Healy, and Sara Hammer
- 23. Client-Centred
- Career Development Practice: A Critical Review
- Barbara Bassot
- 24. Career Counselling Effectiveness and Contributing Factors
- Susan C. Whiston
- 25. Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development
- Peter J. Robertson
- Index
About the author
Peter J. Robertson is a qualified career adviser and a chartered psychologist. He teaches career theory and policy to postgraduate students at Edinburgh Napier University, and he is a fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) and an editor of the Institute's Journal. His research interests focus around the links between careers, health, and well-being; and employment support services for disadvantaged groups.
Tristram Hooley is a researcher and writer specializing in career and career guidance. He has published nine books and numerous articles and reports. He is Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby, Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Student Employers. His work is focused on the inter-relationships between career, politics, technology, and social justice.
Phil McCash is a qualified career development practitioner and currently works as an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning where he is Director of Graduate Studies and teaches on postgraduate courses in career development and career coaching. His work addresses the context, theory, and practice of career development in the contemporary world.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Career Development provides a comprehensive overview of the career development field. It features contributions from 42 leading scholars, addressing the context, theory, and practice of career development in the contemporary world.
The volume defines career development as an inclusive term that relates to all individuals regardless of class, gender, sexuality, ability, geography, or ethnicity. It contains cutting edge research, theory, and thinking which approach career development as a transdisciplinary field, drawing from sociology, psychology, education, and organizational studies as well as other areas. Chapters explore what personal, political, societal, economic, and cultural factors influence our careers and how a diverse range of theoretical traditions has sought to account for the phenomenon of career. It also addresses what can be done to improve and enhance people's careers through a range of educational, counselling, and employment interventions.
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All in all, very good theoretical background for career guidance. The whole area is taken into account.
