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The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/44251 The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting Maree, J.G. (Kobus) Symington, Claire Narrative career counselling Life-design Career adaptability UCTD Adolescents Group-based intervention Social constructionism Life-long vocation Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015. The future work force will be expected to transition from the familiarity of their school environment into an unfamiliar and unstable career world. Organisational changes have shifted the terms of employment from an employee practicing a life-long vocation to now becoming part of a contingent work force. This infers that employees may have to forfeit their reliance on the company to shape their identity development in lieu of self-management. The acknowledgement of these changes has created a ripple effect in the career counselling field as career practitioners increasingly begin to experience the limitations of traditional career approaches in addressing their clients’ evolving career needs. Subsequently, a post-modern framework to career counselling has been introduced to guide career counselling practices in the 21st century. My study focused on the use of two such approaches, namely life-design counselling and career adaptability. This study was based on a socio-constructivist paradigm, which had developed from an interpretivist worldview. The nature of my research study lent itself well to a collective case study, which involved the participation of five learners from an independent school context in a major South African city. Qualitative data collection, analysis and interpretation techniques were used to explore the effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of the afore-mentioned participants. Prior to attending eight group-based life-design counselling sessions, the participants were asked to attend an individual pre-interview. They were also asked to participate in a post-interview upon completion of the last-mentioned sessions. The identified themes generated from the qualitative data collected were as follows: responses related to career adaptability and the related sub-skills based on the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012:357); family/significant others’ influences; financial and economic considerations; components related to emotional intelligence (Bar-On, 2007); adolescent development; school life; childhood dreams, and reflection on the process of life-design counselling. Findings suggest that the participants from my study appeared to benefit from the implementation of a life-design counselling intervention aimed at improving their career adaptability. With this study I aimed to contribute to the field of career counselling by highlighting the specific factors that were likely to influence the career trajectory of the five participants and to demonstrate the positive effect of life-design counselling on their career adaptability. Recommendations have also been made for further research and practice. es2026 Educational Psychology Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-04: Quality education SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth 2015-04-07T11:05:41Z 2015-04-07T11:05:41Z 2015-04 2015 Thesis Symington, C 2015, The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44251> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44251 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Narrative career counselling Life-design Career adaptability UCTD Adolescents Group-based intervention Social constructionism Life-long vocation Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| title | The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| title_full | The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| title_fullStr | The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| title_short | The effect of life-design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| title_sort | effect of life design counselling on the career adaptability of learners in an independent school setting |
| topic | Narrative career counselling Life-design Career adaptability UCTD Adolescents Group-based intervention Social constructionism Life-long vocation Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44251 |