Constructing Professional Identity: How career advice, guidance and counselling practitioners’ construct their own sense of professional identity in relation to their work environment.

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Constructing Professional Identity: How career advice, guidance and counselling practitioners’ construct their own sense of professional identity in relation to their work environment.

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Career advice, guidance and counselling practitioners focus their gaze outward to their clients, helping them with their career development. Little research exists on how they construct their own occupational identity. In this research, I turn my gaze inward on this occupational group; in particular, I look at how they think and feel about what they do and how this influences their professional identity. Specifically, I ask: “what is the relationship between career advice, guidance and counse...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2011

Creator

Douglas, Fiona

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/1769

Related subjects

career / guidance / counselling / profession / identity / performativity / Foucault / Butler / disciplinary technologies

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