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THE USE OF STORY TELLING IN ADULT LEARNING AND GUIDANCE PRACTICE

Is it reasonable to expect that ideas on career development developed in the early and mid-twentieth century can still be used, unchanged, in the contemporary world? We should ask the question, and wonder what new ways of thinking about career might now be more useful.. People need more help than ever in dealing with the anxiety and stress of contemporary career - and they need it life-long.


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CHALLENGING BIOGRAPHIES:
RELOCATING THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CAREERS WORK

We live in a world of change and uncertainty. We all need new ways of saying what we seek, and knowing how to get it. It means knowing how to tell each our own story. Twentieth-century stories often spoke of lives in job-for-life employment. It doesn't work in the same way any more. Too much has changed – economically, socially, culturally, emotionally and biographically.

 

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