ERIC Number: EJ1060935
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 14
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Mid-Career Reframing: The Learning and Development Processes through Which Individuals Seek to Effect Major Career Changes
Brown, Alan
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, v43 n3 p278-291 2015
This article focuses upon the processes whereby individuals reframe their career goals and career direction mid-way through their working lives. Three cases, drawn from Denmark, Germany and Italy, are used to exemplify these processes. The cases are part of a larger study which included the development of a model that could accommodate the different ways in which learning could support labour market transitions across the life-course, where these transitions may involve shifts away from initial occupational identities. The model was used to inform the case analysis whereby career reframing processes could be viewed from three perspectives: reframing as a process of identity development, as a form of relational, emotional, practical and cognitive development and taking place within particular opportunity structures.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Change, Career Development, Midlife Transitions, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Models, Personal Narratives
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark; Germany; Italy
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