ERIC Number: EJ1439270
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0261-4294
EISSN: EISSN-2047-9077
In Search of Career-Life Meaning: Enhancing the Existential Experience of a Gifted Learner
Gifted Education International, v40 n3 p398-415 2024
This article reports on how intervention research based on integrative career counselling enhanced the existential experience of a gifted learner. The participant of this study was a purposively selected gifted 17-year-old girl learner in search of a career that would help her experience meaning, purpose, and hope in and through her career-life. An explanatory (QUALITATIVE-quantitative) research design was used together with qualitative career construction counselling-based methods. A new standardised test was used to generate quantitative data. Savickas' guidelines for analysing career construction-elicited data were implemented to identify themes and subthemes in the outcomes. The intervention helped the participant decide on a career through which she could experience meaning, purpose, and hope in her career-life. Longitudinal research is needed to determine the medium- and long-term influence of the type of intervention discussed here with gifted learners in individual as well as group contexts across the diversity spectrum.
Descriptors: Career Choice, Self Concept, Gifted, Intervention, Career Counseling, Secondary School Students, Standardized Tests, Guidelines, Outcomes of Education, Females, Grade 12, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 12; High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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