An Asset-Based Approach in Career Facilitation: Lessons for Higher Education Training

Autor/inn/en	Coetzee, S.; Ebersohn, L.; Ferreira, R.
Titel	An Asset-Based Approach in Career Facilitation: Lessons for Higher Education Training
Quelle	In: South African Journal of Higher Education, 23 (2009) 3, S.537-560 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1011-3487
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Intervention; Diaries; Foreign Countries; Psychometrics; Career Guidance; Higher Education; Adolescents; Postmodernism; Theory Practice Relationship; Colleges; Career Choice; Career Counseling; Career Development; Partnerships in Education; Counselor Client Relationship; Evaluation; South Africa; Myers Briggs Type Indicator + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Diary; Tagebuch; Ausland; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Berufsorientierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Postmoderne; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Berufsentwicklung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Evaluierung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This exploratory and descriptive study investigated the use of the asset-based approach in career facilitation in South Africa. Five adolescents (3 females and 2 males) aged 16 to 18 years participated. An intervention study following a qualitative approach was conducted. We developed and implemented an asset-based career facilitation intervention that included psychometric and post-modern career activities. We used multiple data collection strategies (observation, unstructured interviews, intervention activities, visual data and participant reflections), which we documented in various ways (field notes, researcher diaries, photocopies of intervention artefacts and participant reflective diaries). Our thematic analysis of the data revealed three main themes. Firstly, in terms of the client-partner relationship, the study indicated the significance of personality traits, age, family dynamics, career interest profiles and previous career assessment experiences when using asset-based strategies. Secondly, the challenging role of the asset-based career facilitator was emphasised. Thirdly, results suggested that traditional career guidance paradigms meant that client-partners expected the career facilitator to function as expert, and accordingly resisted the shared responsibility of partnership. Subsequently, we identified indicators and contra-indicators for using asset-based career facilitation. (Contains 8 tables, 3 figures, and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10