Career Guidance for Social Justice: Contesting Neoliberalism
Editors: Tristram Hooley, Ronald G. Sultana & Rie Thomsen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN10 1138087386; ISBN13 9781138087385
This book is the first in a two-volume series that examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. The first volume focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of the field and offers a contrapuntal discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice. It includes 18 chapters by the main researchers working in the field, and seeks to be a paradigm shifting contribution to the debate around the future of career guidance, moving the discipline away from its excessive reliance on psychology towards a more critical, sociologically informed and politically committed approach. The 28 authors hail from a range of countries (global North and South, those countries with strong career guidance traditions and those without) and theoretical positions (e.g. feminist, environmentalist, Marxist, indigenous and post colonial theories, humanists and liberation theologians, among others). It includes papers that focus on critique and on possibility, with contributions that are theoretically informed as well as empirically based.
About the editors:
Tristram Hooley is a writer and researcher on career and career guidance. He is Director of Research at The Careers & Enterprise Company, Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby and Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Science.
Ronald G. Sultana is professor of sociology and comparative education at the University of Malta, where he is founding director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research.
Rie Thomsen is associate professor of career guidance and coordinator of the Guidance Research Unit at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University in Copenhagen, Denmark.