Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-cultural Life TransitionAdopting a qualitative research framework, this text describes the career experience of professional trainees from non-Western cultures who have chosen to develop their careers in the West. It then highlights the implications of these experiences for theory, research and practice. |
Contents
w | 3 |
Conceptualizing Life Career Interaction | 7 |
Constructing Narrative Inquiry | 37 |
Individual Narratives | 53 |
1 | 93 |
The General Narrative of NWC Counsellor Trainees | 105 |
Understanding a CrossCultural Life Career Transition | 137 |
References | 147 |
Appendix | 159 |
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