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Application in Career Counseling
- Method of thinking and guidance
- Makes counseling realistic (horizons for action)
- Career-related learning (Pragmatic and technical rationality)
- Encourages us to work with the grain, in synergy with some other significant influences.
Careership Theory by Phil Hodkinson
The Theory Continued
Sources
- Decision- Making Process
- Technical Rationality - only cognitive and discursive
- Pragmatic Rationality - involves physical, practical, emotional and the affective as well as cognitive.
- Routines and Turning Points
- Career could be broken up by occasional turning points, or times of significant personal career change, usually only visible in hindsight.
Hodkins P., (2008) Understanding career decision-making and proression: Careership revisited.
Phil Hodkinson
- Professor of Lifelong Learning, research, doctoral supervisor and supervision.
Context of Theory Development
- Began research for government Training Credit Scheme in 1991
- Failure of Folk Theory
- Hodkinson viewed people and jobs as dynamic (Based on work of Pierre Bourdieu)
- Other theories - developmental, social learning, and opportunity structures failed to explain
The Theory
- argues that career decision- making and progression have 3 overlapping dimensions
- positions and dispositions of the individual.
- relations between forces acting in the field(s) within which decisions are made and careers progress.
- the on-going longitudinal pathway the career followed
- Horizons for Action
- career decision-making and progression take place in the interactions between the person and the field that inhabit.