ABSTRACT
This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions. Through a series of chapters that positions career guidance within a neoliberal context and presents theories to inform an emancipatory direction for the field, this book raises questions, offers resources and provides some glimpses of an alternative future for work. Drawing on education, sociology, and political science, this book addresses the theoretical basis of career guidance’s involvement in social justice as well as the methodological consequences in relation to career guidance research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|27 pages
The Neoliberal Challenge to Career Guidance
part I|96 pages
Understanding the Neoliberal Context
chapter 2|15 pages
A Twenty-First Century Challenge
chapter 3|16 pages
The Pervasive Influence of Neoliberalism on Policy Guidance Discourses in Career/Education
chapter 4|14 pages
Precarity, Austerity and the Social Contract in a Liquid World
chapter 7|16 pages
Social Media and Social Justice in the Context of Career Guidance
part II|84 pages
Building Theories for Change
chapter 9|16 pages
Conflicting Perspectives on Career
chapter 10|18 pages
Exploring Politics at the Intersection of Critical Psychology and Career Guidance
chapter 11|15 pages
Looking for Social Justice Through Agency
chapter 12|16 pages
The Gap Between Theory and Context as a Generator of Social Injustice
part III|59 pages
Research for Practice