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Book SynopsisCareer brings together individuals’ paths through life, learning and work. It describes how people interface with social institutions including the education system, employers, civil society and the state. Because our careers are socially and culturally embedded it matters where they are enacted. Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries explores what kind of context the Nordic region offers for the pursuit of career, how the development of careers are supported in welfare societies, and how career guidance is enacted in this context. The Nordic region encompasses an area in Northern Europe and the Northern Atlantic comprising Denmark, Sweden, Norway as well as Finland to the east and Iceland in the Atlantic. It includes also the self-governing areas of Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. This region has long been seen as a source of progressive policy innovation in education and employment and this book focuses and explores the place, the enactment and the theories of career guidance in these Nordic countries.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Setting Nordic Career Guidance in Context EriK Hagaseth Haug, Tristram Hooley, Jaana Kettunen and Rie Thomsen Part 1: Career Guidance Policy and Systems 2. The ‘Idea of Career’ and ‘A Welfare State of Mind’: On the Nordic Model for Welfare and Career Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke 3. Pining for the Fjords: International Perceptions of Nordic Work, Education and Career Guidance Tristram Hooley 4. Gender Equality and Career Guidance in a Nordic Context Torild Schulstok and Frida Wikstrand 5. Career Guidance in Nordic Self Governing Regions: Opportunties and Challenges Rosie Alexander, Anna-Elisabeth Holm, Deirdre Hansen and Kistâra Motzfeldt Vahl 6. Career Guidance and the Production of Subjectivity Roger Kjærgård 7. Swedish Career Guidance: History, Development and Dilemmas Anders Lovén 8. Guidance in the Danish Educational Sector: The Development of the System Since 2000 Steffen Jensen 9. Lifelong Guidance in Finland: Key Policies and Practices Anna Toni and Raimo Vuorinen Part 2: The Careers Professions and Professionalism 10. The Making of a Profession: The Development of the Careers Profession in Iceland Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir 11. Enhancing Career Practitioners Understanding and Use of Ict in Guidance and Counselling Jaana Kettunen, Mia Lindberg, Elsebeth Nygaard and Jónina Kárdal 12. Cross-Cultural Validation of Assessment Instruments Used in Career Counselling and Guidance in the Nordic countries: Etic and Emic Approaches Sif Einarsdóttir, María Dóra Björnsdóttir and Jukka Lerkkanen 13. Developing Guidance Competences for Learning Mobility Mika Launikari, Nina Ahlroos, Ellen Hagen and Dóra Stefánsdóttir 14. Understandings of Career Guidance Quality in Norwegian Schools Erik Hagaseth Haug 15. Come Together: Professional Development of Career Guidance Practitioners through Co-Generative Learning Bo Klindt Poulsen and Trond Buland Part 3: Career Guidance Practice across the Lifecourse 16. Career Guidance in Norwegian Primary Education: Developing the Power of Dreams and the Power of Judgement Siri Mordal, Trond Buland and Ida Holth Mathiesen 17. From Career Choice to Career Learning: Taster Programs and Students’ Meaning-Making Processes Randi Boelskifte skovhus and Rie Thomsen 18. If Career Education Is the Solution, What Is the Implied Problem? A Critical Analysis of the Timetabled Subject of Educational Choice in Norwegian Schools Petra Røise 19. Online Self-Help for Young Danes Anette Jochumsen 20. One-Stop Guidance Service Centres in Finland Jaana Kettunen and Teija Felt 21. Career Guidance for Refugees in a Nordic Context: The Need to Emphasise a More Collective Approach Helene Fredriksen 22. Union Career Guidance in Denmark Rie Thomsen, Kristina Mariager-Anderson and Palle Rasmussen 23. As Time Goes By: Geronto Guidance Inger Marie Bakke, Lyn Barham and Peter Plant Index
