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Career Construction Theory and Life Writing - Narrative and Autobiographical Thinking across the Professions (Hardcover)
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Career Construction Theory and Life Writing - Narrative and Autobiographical Thinking across the Professions (Hardcover)
Series: Life Writing
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This volume applies the insight and methods of career construction
theory to explore how autobiographical writing is used in different
professional careers, from fiction and journalism to education and
medicine. It draws attention to the fact that a career is a
particular kind of artefact with distinctive properties and
features that can be analysed and compared, and puts forward a new
theory of the relationship between narrative methodology and the
vocation of writing. Career construction theory emerged in the late
twentieth century, when changes to the patterns of our working
lives caused large numbers of people to seek new forms of
vocational guidance to navigate those changes. It employs a
narrative paradigm in which periods of uncertainty are treated as
experiences akin to 'writer's block', experiences which can be
overcome first by imagining new character arcs, then by narrating
them and finally by performing them. By encouraging clients to see
their careers as stories of which they are both the metaphorical
authors and the main protagonists, career construction counsellors
enable them to envisage the next chapter in those stories. But
despite the authorial metaphor, career construction theory has not
been widely applied to analysis of professional careers in writing.
The chapters in this volume remedy that gap and in various ways
apply the insights of career construction theory to analyse the
relationship between writing and professional life in diverse
careers where writing is used. The chapters in this book were
originally published in the journal Life Writing.
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