دورية أكاديمية
Paradoxical Career Sensemaking among Emerging Adults
العنوان: | Paradoxical Career Sensemaking among Emerging Adults |
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اللغة: | English |
المؤلفون: | Shelly L. Robinson (ORCID |
المصدر: | Communication Education. 2024 73(1):7-28. |
الإتاحة: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
Peer Reviewed: | Y |
Page Count: | 22 |
تاريخ النشر: | 2024 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
Descriptors: | Young Adults, College Graduates, Career Development, Educational Attitudes, Career Readiness, Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Attainment, Neoliberalism, Logical Thinking, Philosophy |
DOI: | 10.1080/03634523.2023.2254860 |
تدمد: | 0363-4523 1479-5795 |
مستخلص: | Emerging adults, who are late millennials and Gen Z members, question the worth of higher education, especially in preparation for volatile labor markets, careers, and other precarities. We analyzed emerging adults' sensemaking about this education-career-precarity mix through the constitutive lens of paradox using the applied tensional approach. We identified two main paradoxes centering around feelings of education and career security and vulnerability: (a) students' beliefs about educational attainment as leading directly to career success (golden ticket) that coexist with understandings that there are no guarantees; and (b) feelings of isolation in the self-managed career ("it's all up to me") that share space with desires for social networks but as educational products established by others and consistent with student-as-consumer and neoliberal ideologies. In demystifying these paradoxes, we advocate more-than approaches that position tensions as opportunities, incorporate both career development and critical communication pedagogy, and transcend through quality control interventions. |
Abstractor: | As Provided |
Entry Date: | 2024 |
رقم الأكسشن: | EJ1409781 |
قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
تدمد: | 0363-4523 1479-5795 |
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DOI: | 10.1080/03634523.2023.2254860 |