Guest editor Dr. Gill Frigerio, University of Warwick, has processed and edited several articles on the topic of career guidance and other fields of study.
Reflection, Dialogue and Dialectic: Career guidance as philosophical activity
Career guidance work is fundamentally philosophical in the sense that many of the most important questions encountered within it are philosophical in nature. The article Reflection, Dialogue and Dialectic: Career guidance as philosophical activity explores how clients engage with ultimate questions that require philosophical reflection when they strive for meaning, value, purpose, clarity, and fulfilment. The article is written by Robin Stevens, Career Consultant, King’s College London.
“Know your terrain”: how to acknowledge the context of career guidance policies and why
Career guidance policies emerge from complex multilevel governance systems and rely on diverse tools and stakeholders. In the article “Know your terrain”: how to acknowledge the context of career guidance policies and why PhD Candidate, Ester Bonomi, from University of Milan writes about how understanding the career guidance context can empower practitioners to navigate challenges, advocate effectively, and shape impactful systems for lifelong career development.
What socio-cognitive linguistics can do for your career guidance practice
As career guidance is a language-based practice, can the discipline of socio-cognitive linguistics add value to our work? In the article "What socio-cognitive linguistics can do for your career guidance practice" Career Development Practitioner and Career Development Institute Fellow, Valerie Rowles, suggest that mutual practitioner-client comprehension can be enhanced by becoming familiar with linguistics theory and research.
Reading a career to become a career critic. Using insights from arts and humanities disciplines to develop career literacy
In the article Reading a career to become a career critic. Using insights from arts and humanities disciplines to develop career literacy Catherine Reynolds puts story telling onto the careers agenda, combining theory from career studies with practices inherent in literary studies and inviting careers workers to teach clients to become better career critics, alert to nuance and sensitised to the ways careers develop.
Weaving together disciplinary strands into career development practice
It is a common experience when working in career development to see everywhere and connected with everything. The article Weaving together disciplinary strands into career development practice by dr. Gill Frigerio shows how career is there whenever people are talking about their work and their choices: what to study, who to hire, where to live.