NARRATIVE IDENTITY AND STORYTELLING IN CAREER COUNSELLING
Keywords:
storytelling, career guidance, narrative identityAbstract
It is recognized that counselling and career guidance can contribute to the maximum development of the professional potential of people in accordance with their aspirations and abilities, reducing academic dropout, an optimal transition of young people between different educational levels, increasing participation in education, developing social inclusion and equity in education or increasing employability by facilitating direct access. The scope of the present article is on narrative career counselling's contribution in offering a meaningful experience for people accessing career guidance services. In order to depict the potential of narrative career counselling, the storytelling approach is provided as a powerful technique for crafting client‟s self identities in contextually anchored ways.References
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