Description
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.
Table of Contents
PrefaceTony Watts1. Introduction: Rethinking Career DevelopmentPhil McCash, Tristram Hooley, and Peter J. RobertsonSection 1: Contexts2. The Decline of Decent Work in the Twenty-First: Implications for Career DevelopmentEllie Gutowski, David L. Blustein, Maureen E. Kenny and Whitney Erby3. The Economic Outcomes of Career Development ProgrammesChristian Percy and Vanessa Dodd4. Career Development and Human Capital Theory: Preaching the "Education Gospel"Tristram Hooley5. Linking Educators and Employers: Taxonomies, Rationales and BarriersChristian Percy and Elnaz Kashefpakdel6. Authentic Education for Meaningful Work: Beyond "Career Management Skills"Ronald G. Sultana7. Career Guidance: Living on the Edge of Public PolicyJohn McCarthy and Tibor Bors Borbély-Pecze8. The Aims of Career Development Policy: Towards a Comprehensive FrameworkPeter J.RobertsonSection 2: Theory9. Career Development Theory: An Integrated AnalysisJulia Yates10. Organisational Career Development Theory: Weaving Individuals, Organisationsand Social StructuresKate Mackenzie Davey11. Organisational and Managerial Careers: A Coevolutionary ViewHugh Gunz and Wolfgang Mayrhofer12. The Narrative Turn in Career Development Theories: An Integrative PerspectiveJérôme Rossier, Paulo Miguel Cardoso and Maria Eduarda Duarte13. The Positioning of Social Justice: Critical Challenges for Career DevelopmentBarrie Irving14. Cultural Learning Theory and Career DevelopmentPhil McCash15. The Cultural Preparedness Perspective of Career DevelopmentGideon Arulmani, Sachin Kumar, Sunita Shrestha, Maribon Viray andSajma Aravind16. Career Development Theories from the Global SouthMarcelo Afonso Ribeiro17. Cross-Cultural Career Psychology from a Critical Psychology PerspectiveGraham B. Stead and Ashley E. PoklarSection: Practice18. The Career Development Profession: Professionalisation, Professionalism, andProfessional IdentityJohn Gough and Siobhan Neary19. Transformative Career Education in Schools and CollegesAnthony Barnes20. Labour Market Information for Career Development: Pivotal or Peripheral?Jenny Bimrose21. The Role of Digital Technology in Career DevelopmentTristram Hooley and Tom Staunton22. Career AssessmentPeter McIlveen, Harsha N. Perera, Jason Brown, Michael Healy, and Sara Hammer23. Client-CentredCareer Development Practice: A Critical ReviewBarbara Bassot24. Career Counselling Effectiveness and Contributing FactorsSusan C. Whiston25. Evidence-Based Practice in Career DevelopmentPeter J. RobertsonIndex
