scholarly journals The usefulness of facilitating narrative career counselling with learner-athletes in a South African sport school

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
L.H. Human ◽  
M. Human
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling

Exploring processes of change in a life-design career development intervention in socio-economically challenged youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Anouk J. Albien
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
South African ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Life Design

Previous research has sought to identify the underlying processes and mechanisms that lead to lasting changes in a client's career development, yet more research needed to understand what elicits effective changes. The present research will explore how life-design career counselling supports change in a group of disadvantaged South African adolescents. The present research study will focus on a post-intervention qualitative strand, which included evaluative worksheets completed post-intervention (n = 265) and a focus data six months later (n = 6). Braun and Clarke's (2006) content analysis was used to group themes according to the Career Construction Theory (CCT) and process constructs of narrative career counselling. Qualitative findings provide evidence that the intervention had elicited long-term changes in career development and facilitated reflective processes. Implications and recommendations for research and practice will be discussed.

Does Holland's Hexagon Travel Well?

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Mark B. Watson ◽  
Graham B. Stead ◽  
Carol Schonegevel
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
South African ◽  
Black Adolescents ◽  
Hexagonal Structure ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Structural Equivalence ◽  
And Gender

John Holland's career theory has influenced career counselling for several decades. However, recent research has questioned the cross-cultural and gender structural equivalence of his theory. The present research examines whether 529 black South African disadvantaged students’ interest structures fit Holland's hexagonal model and whether such structures differ according to gender and socioeconomic status. The results indicate that the structure of interests of black adolescents does not provide an acceptable level of fit to Holland's hexagonal structure. This finding was evident across gender and socioeconomic status groups. There were also no within-group differences for gender and socioeconomic status. The implications of these findings for career practitioners who use Holland's measures are discussed.

How can creative practice facilitate reflection on self-learning? Implications for narrative career counselling

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Brammar ◽  
Katarina Lezova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Writing Task

This study uses an individual case study to explore how creative practice can facilitate reflection on self-learning from a narrative career counselling perspective. The case study features the original creative output and associated writing task produced by a higher education student as part of a skills award. The study considers what is meant by creativity and the use of creative practices in narrative career counselling. Based on the case study, it considers the potential implications for narrative career counselling regarding the use of creative practice to facilitate both reflection and stimulate internal and external dialogues around self-learning.

Post-modern Career Counselling to a Gifted Black Youth: A Case Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.G. Maree ◽  
S.E. Bester ◽  
C. Lubbe ◽  
G. Beck
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Consultative Process ◽  
Modern Perspective ◽  
The Ideal

It has become critically imperative that career counselling be made accessible to the majority of the South African population. At the same time it has to continue to address the needs and diversity of individual learners. This article attempts to illustrate the potential and flexibility of a post-modern model for career counselling. Career counselling from a post-modern perspective requires reconsidering the traditional modern approach of the 20th century. Increasing disillusionment with modernism because of unfulfilled dreams and ideals have resulted in a change of approach to career counselling that corresponds with the post-modern discourse. The change of focus has been one from ‘matching to the ‘empowerment’ of clients, not only to make career choices, but also to accept primary responsibility for these decisions. The needs of the client come first with the sole view of empowering him/her to make his/her own decisions about the future. A narrative approach is adopted by which the client creates hislher own life story, with a view to creating an ideal story as close to the ideal as possible. This model, which progresses through three phases, inter alia, comprises a consultative process of career counselling to all learners, irrespective of race, gender, age or culture. The article is highlighted by the presentation of a case study in which the proposed model for post-modern career counselling is put into practice by administering counselling to a gifted black child.

scholarly journals Validating the adaptation of the first career measure in isiXhosa: the South African Career Interest Inventory–isiXhosa version

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Rabie ◽  
Anthony V Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Covariance Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
The South ◽  
Career Interest ◽  
Structural Validity ◽  
Interest Inventory ◽  
Adolescent Sample ◽  
African Context

South African career counselling practices have predominantly been informed by vocational theories and models developed in the United States and Europe. In view of South Africa’s peculiar history and its unique cultural and linguistic environment, the indiscriminate application of Western career models has become increasingly contentious, as the majority of these models fail to account for culture-specific values that influence an individual’s career interests, decision-making, and development. The South African Career Interest Inventory was developed to address this contention, through operationalising John Holland’s vocational personality theory in South Africa. This study adapted and translated the South African Career Interest Inventory into isiXhosa, in the process constructing the first career interest inventory in a South African indigenous language. Subsequently, we investigated the structural validity of the South African Career Interest Inventory, and therefore Holland’s model, on a sample of isiXhosa-speaking secondary school learners ( n = 266). The randomisation test of hypothesised order relations, multidimensional scaling, and covariance structure modelling were employed to examine the structural validity of the inventory. The results demonstrated the South African Career Interest Inventory–isiXhosa version to be a reliable and valid measure of vocational interest on an early isiXhosa adolescent sample, suggesting the tenability of Holland’s model in the South African context. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Examining process constructs of narrative career counselling: an exploratory case study

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McMahon ◽  
Mark Watson ◽  
Candice Chetty ◽  
Christopher Norman Hoelson
Keyword(s):  
Career Counselling ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling
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