Career Opportunities with Scholarship Support in Visual Impairments

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Downes
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Career Opportunities

Employment Concerns of People with Blindness or Visual Impairments

1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.E. Wolffe ◽  
R.T. Roessler ◽  
K.F. Schriner
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
American Council ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Employment Concerns

Seventy-six consumer members of the American Council of the Blind with primary disabilities of blindness or visual impairment responded to an Employment Concerns Questionnaire which was developed by consumers, advocates, and service providers. Respondents’ concerns included their not receiving adequate help in developing job search strategies, in obtaining information on career opportunities, and in financing assistive devices.

Moving Up without Losing Your Way

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Morton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
College Experience ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Community Finding

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, this book looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society. The book reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, the book seeks to reverse this course. It urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility—one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves. The book paves a hopeful road so that students might achieve social mobility while retaining their best selves.

Clara Ng: A Brief Journey of A Remarkable Female for Our Time

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
External Audit ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

This work examines what it has been and continues to be like for Clara Ng to be a home mother and an author in the publishing industry. Our exploration uses qualitative methods of narrative approaches in the form of biographical studies. Participants as data sources were selected using a purposive sampling technique which was collected based on retrospective interviewing techniques and then checked for validity and reliability using external audit. It gained that Clara Ng is a remarkable female whose synthesizes the difference between home mother and author’s career in the publishing industry. She did not seek fame nor did she seek self aggrandizement, her whole life was one of service to humanity, an indefatigable work ethic, and humility. Clara Ng’s journey offers insights offers examples of many ways in which home mothers can, and should, work to improve the career opportunities available to those who follow in their footsteps.

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