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Oliveira, Íris M.; Araújo, Alexandra M. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
Career exploration enables children to gain self- and occupational knowledge, and to assign meaning to what is learnt at school. Children's career exploration can be conceived as a foundation for career developmental learning and academic success. In this manuscript, we review articles published over the last five years to address whether these…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Career Exploration, Career Development
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Patient Rambe; Mucha Mkono; Lawrence Meda – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study employs an Afro-centric framework of Digital "Unhu" (i.e. digital humanism) and netnographic accounts of supervisor-supervisee interactions to investigate Mobile Instant Messaging mediated interaction as a platform for honing students' career management competencies. While many existing studies foreground Western…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
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Maree, J. G.; Maree, N. – South African Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore how life-design-based counselling can influence young learners' academic self-construction within a group context. The study involved a qualitative mode of enquiry with 12 participants. Life-design-based intervention strategies, together with various (postmodern) qualitative techniques, were used to gather…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, School Guidance, Career Exploration, Counseling Effectiveness
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Dunn-Coetzee, Munita; Sinclair, Elmien; Lyner-Cleophas, Marcia; Brink, Jaco; Timmey, Marquard; Davids, Charl – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2021
The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has impacted every facet of our lives and challenged service delivery to students within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The Centre for Student Counselling and Development (CSCD) at Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa, is situated within the Division of Student Affairs (DSAf) and the centre's…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Personnel Services, Foreign Countries
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Czop Assaf, Lori; O'Donnell Lussier, Kristie – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
In this qualitative study, we examine the experiences of South African multilingual learners and one local teacher after participating in a community-based, digital storytelling project on career dreams. A secondary purpose was to uncover the skills, knowledge, and abilities learners used as they created digital stories that reflected their future…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Cultural Capital, Rural Education, Story Telling
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Cook, A.; Maree, J. G. – South African Journal of Education, 2016
This article explores the extent to which an intervention programme helped learners from two contrasting educational settings manage career-related transitions. Forty-two learners from two schools were selected, using convenience and purposive sampling, to take part in an intervention programme. Two comparison groups comprised of 45 learners from…
Descriptors: Career Change, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Career Counseling
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Coetzee, M.; Bester, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
The taking of a "gap year", immediately after completing their secondary school education, to explore life before embarking on formal studies or starting their career, is a growing phenomenon among young people in South Africa. This research study explores the experiences of three young people who engaged in a gap year and focuses on the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Young Adults, Interviews, Foreign Countries