TY - CHAP
T1 - Poetic Reflexivity and the Birth of Career Writing
T2 - An Autoethnographic Love Story
AU - Lengelle, Reinekke
AU - Meijers, Frans
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The intention of this chapter is to show how autoethnographic research might promote reflexivity among career professionals.We aim to answer the question: can writing one’s own life and career story assist career practitioners and researchers in identifying patterns, idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities that will make them more aware of the elements that are fundamental to career construction and that have been mentioned in a variety of disparate places in the existing career literature?What interested us as career researchers and co-creators of the narrative approach Career Writing in considering the innovative intention of this book, was how writing our own career story could deepen our professional reflexivity and might also help others to do so.
AB - The intention of this chapter is to show how autoethnographic research might promote reflexivity among career professionals.We aim to answer the question: can writing one’s own life and career story assist career practitioners and researchers in identifying patterns, idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities that will make them more aware of the elements that are fundamental to career construction and that have been mentioned in a variety of disparate places in the existing career literature?What interested us as career researchers and co-creators of the narrative approach Career Writing in considering the innovative intention of this book, was how writing our own career story could deepen our professional reflexivity and might also help others to do so.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_30
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85110281663
SN - 9783030227982
SP - 539
EP - 556
BT - Handbook of Innovative Career Counselling
ER -