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Career counselling; constructivist approaches.


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Career counselling; constructivist con·struc·tiv·ism  
n.
A movement in modern art originating in Moscow in 1920 and characterized by the use of industrial materials such as glass, sheet metal, and plastic to create nonrepresentational, often geometric objects.
 approaches.

Ed. by Mary McMahon and Wendy Patton.

Routledge

2006

210 pages

$39.95

Hardcover

HF5381

McMahon (education, University of Queensland The University of Queensland (UQ) is the longest-established university in the state of Queensland, Australia, a member of Australia's Group of Eight, and the Sandstone Universities. It is also a founding member of the international Universitas 21 organisation. , Australia) and Patton (education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia) explore the constructivist approach to career counseling Noun 1. career counseling - counseling on career opportunities
counseling, counselling, guidance, counsel, direction - something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
, which views career as a holistic concept in which work and personal life intertwine. Contributors in education, psychology, and management provide a theoretical background to constructivism constructivism, Russian art movement founded c.1913 by Vladimir Tatlin, related to the movement known as suprematism. After 1916 the brothers Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner gave new impetus to Tatlin's art of purely abstract (although politically intended) , then outline a range of constructivist approaches to career counseling and provide examples of practical application. Final chapters cover career assessment.

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