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The book captures the developments, challenges and opportunities in
the fields of counselling and career guidance in Asia, highlighting
issues and concerns that are unique to Asian regions as well as
those that are common with other parts of the world. This book
addresses multiple gaps in the counselling and career guidance
literatures: it covers Eastern contexts and includes a focus on the
distinctive needs of rural communities and those of small states.
Gender is a prominent theme as well. The chapters in the book are
diverse in terms of settings and participants, topics, and segments
of the life span. The reader can develop insight about the current
status of the counselling and career guidance fields in Asian
contexts and identify relevant aspects that need change or
strengthening. The guidelines for policy development that have been
suggested in many chapters in this edited volume are of
considerable practical value. The discussions in the book draw
attention to context-specific features as well as underscore themes
that are recurrent across regions and countries. The book has
utility, therefore, for readers from all countries. Counselling and
Career Guidance in Asia will be relevant to students and
researchers interested in educational psychology, counselling
psychology, vocational psychology, career development, human
learning, the learning sciences, and psychological research methods
in education and psychology. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of British Journal of
Guidance & Counselling.
This book is focused on work, occupation and career development:
themes that are fundamental to a wide range of human activities and
relevant across all cultures. Yet theorizing and model building
about this most ubiquitous of human activities from international
perspectives have not been vigorous. An examination of the
literature pertaining to career development, counseling and
guidance that has developed over the last fifty years reveals
theorizing and model building have been largely dominated by
Western epistemologies, some of the largest workforces in the world
are in the developing world. Career guidance is rapidly emerging as
a strongly felt need in these contexts. If more relevant models are
to be developed, frameworks from other cultures and economies must
be recognized as providing constructs that would offer a deeper
understanding of career development. This does not mean that
existing ideas are to be discarded. Instead, an integrative
approach that blends universal principles with particular needs
could offer a framework for theorizing, research and practice that
has wider relevance. The central objective of this handbook is to
draw the wisdom and experiences of different cultures together to
consider both universal and specific principles for career guidance
and counseling that are socially and economically relevant to
contemporary challenges and issues. This book is focused on
extending existing concepts to broader contexts as well as
introducing new concepts relevant to the discipline of career
guidance and counseling.
This book is focused on work, occupation and career development:
themes that are fundamental to a wide range of human activities and
relevant across all cultures. Yet theorizing and model building
about this most ubiquitous of human activities from international
perspectives have not been vigorous. An examination of the
literature pertaining to career development, counseling and
guidance that has developed over the last fifty years reveals
theorizing and model building have been largely dominated by
Western epistemologies, some of the largest workforces in the world
are in the developing world. Career guidance is rapidly emerging as
a strongly felt need in these contexts. If more relevant models are
to be developed, frameworks from other cultures and economies must
be recognized as providing constructs that would offer a deeper
understanding of career development. This does not mean that
existing ideas are to be discarded. Instead, an integrative
approach that blends universal principles with particular needs
could offer a framework for theorizing, research and practice that
has wider relevance. The central objective of this handbook is to
draw the wisdom and experiences of different cultures together to
consider both universal and specific principles for career guidance
and counseling that are socially and economically relevant to
contemporary challenges and issues. This book is focused on
extending existing concepts to broader contexts as well as
introducing new concepts relevant to the discipline of career
guidance and counseling.
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