Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: Autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change
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This study examined the Future Career Autobiography (FCA) with six Australian undergraduate students. The study aimed to explore: (1) the FCA as a qualitative career assessment instrument that facilitates career storytelling and reflexivity on future career plans and (2) the implications of narrative career assessment procedures that reflexively and systemically engage young students in career research. The findings confirmed some narrative changes in the participants’ FCA paragraphs. These changes were more substantial for participants with less certain career plans. The findings extended the evidence base for the FCA beyond its role in qualitatively measuring narrative change, as an instrument that promotes autobiographicity and facilitates reflexivity. By introducing the exit interview questions, this research substantiated FCA’s applications in practice and research.
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British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Educational counselling
Counselling, wellbeing and community services
Psychology
Education systems
Applied and developmental psychology
Clinical and health psychology
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Psychology, Applied
Future career autobiography
Australian undergraduates
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Abkhezr, P, Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: Autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023