Re-authoring career narratives: exploring identity in contemporary careers practice
Mate, Susan, Gregory, Kathleen, and Ryan, Juliana (2024) Re-authoring career narratives: exploring identity in contemporary careers practice. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 52 (1). pp. 7-18.
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Abstract
Narrative Career Therapy (NCT) is recognised in this paper as having relevance for career practitioners who are working to create meaning for their clients in complex work life situations. Re-authoring Career Narratives is described as a practice that involves principles of NCT and these principles contribute to the exploration of agentive development. Re-authoring Career Narratives is demonstrated to support clients to navigate the reality that career learning is lifelong and evolving. We propose that a NCT requires practitioners to place emphasis on the contexts in which discourse is developed which can facilitate greater awareness of a client’s career identity and capacity to navigate uncertainty. We use a narrative research approach to explore how re-authoring practices assist clients to make career decisions. We recommend that re-authoring practices assist clients to reconstruct their stories and to gain insight into career identity as an evolving contextual phenomenon responsive to changing career and work landscapes.
| Item ID: | 82899 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1469-3534 |
| Keywords: | career narratives, discursive context, narrative research, Narrative therapy (NT), re-authoring |
| Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2024 00:42 |
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