A Narrative Approach to Career Education

Abstract

A major function of career education is to provide career information, such as information about occupations and convictions about how to make one's way in a career. Traditionally, career information is offered in a form that emphasises rationality and objectivity. Using a narrative approach, this article describes alternative procedures for heightening career awareness that emphasise meaning-making and accommodation to the subjective orientations of developing persons. The first procedure involves a strategy for transforming occupational information into occupational narratives. The second procedure involves four different strategies for revising flawed convictions into more adequate and fruitful plots to enact in career.