The Oxford Handbook of Career Development

by Peter J. Robertson, Tristram Hooley, Phil McCash

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190069704
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2021
Series:	Oxford Library of Psychology
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.30(d)

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.

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

"The Oxford Handbook of Career Development collects a wealth of achievements in the field of career development and career counselling organized with/for reflective, active people striving to develop their life potential in a nontransparent reality ... Despite the fact that it is a scientific study, it was written in an understandable and lively language, with internal dynamics, which allows for both engaging and inspirational read." — Jolanta Lenart, Studia Poradoznawcze/Journal of Counsellogy

"All in all, very good theoretical background for career guidance. The whole area is taken into account." — Annukka Tapani, Tampere University of Applied Sciences

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