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In our present industrialised societies, each individual must find an answer to the same fundamental question: how should I best direct my own life in the globalised society to which I belong? For school-students, this question occurs as follows: which studies should I choose, given my school results, as well as to my personal and family expectations concerning my future career and social integration? Within these types of societies, career development interventions -mainly education and counselling -are considered as aiming at helping young people find their own answers to these questions. Two conditions are necessary in developing such practices seriously: firstly to ground them in an adequate knowledge in the field of social sciences, and secondly to define them in reference to clarified ends. Fulfilling the first condition implies transforming the societal question of finding one's life bearings -"how should I direct my life" -to a scientific problem, one which it becomes possible to answer in terms of observable phenomena, factors or processes. This problem can be formulated as follows: what are the -universal and determined -factors and processes of life-long self-constructio

Author

Jean Guichard; Bernadette Dumora

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611734169

Subjects

Education, Philosophy, Economics

Updated

2026-03-24