Table Of ContentCareer Guidance for Social Justice
This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance,
social justice and neoliberalism. Contributors offer an original and global
discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice
and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions. Through
a series of chapters that position career guidance within a neoliberal con-
text and present theories to inform an emancipatory direction for the field,
this book raises questions, offers resources and provides some glimpses of
an alternative future for work and life. Drawing on education, sociology,
critical psychology and political science, this book addresses the theoretical
basis of career guidance’s involvement in social justice as well as the meth-
odological consequences in relation to career guidance research.
A second, companion volume, titled “Career Guidance for Emancipa-
tion: Reclaiming Justice for the Multitude”, to be published by Routledge in
2018, will explore how career guidance can be reimagined in order to serve
as a liberatory force for diverse groups rendered vulnerable by the neoliberal
onslaught.
Tristram Hooley is Professor of Careers Education at the University of
Derby, UK.
Ronald G. Sultana is Professor of Sociology of Education and Director of
the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the University
of Malta, Malta.
Rie Thomsen is Associate Professor of Career Guidance and Coordinator of
the Guidance Research Unit, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism,
and Marxism
Series editor Dave Hill, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford
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For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com
8 Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism
Insights from Gramsci
By Peter Mayo
9 Female Students and Cultures of Violence in Cities
Edited by Julia Hall
10 Neoliberal Education Reform
Gendered Notions in Global and Local Contexts
By Sarah A. Robert
11 Curriculum Epistemicide
Towards An Itinerant Curriculum Theory
By João M. Paraskeva
12 Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum
Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson
Edited by Daniel Ness & Stephen J. Farenga
13 The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis
in U.S. Higher Education
Voices of Students and Faculty
Edited by Nicholas D. Hartlep, Lucille L.T. Eckrich,
and Brandon O. Hensley
14 Ethnography of a Neoliberal School
Building Cultures of Success
By Garth Stahl
15 Film as a Radical Pedagogical Tool
Deirdre O’Neill
16 Career Guidance for Social Justice
Contesting Neoliberalism
Edited by Tristram Hooley, Ronald G. Sultana, and Rie Thomsen
Career Guidance
for Social Justice
Contesting Neoliberalism
Volume 1—Context, Theory
and Research
Edited by Tristram Hooley,
Ronald G. Sultana,
and Rie Thomsen
First published 2018
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This volume is dedicated to Bill Law, a tireless champion of
young people, careers work and social justice.
Contents
1 The Neoliberal Challenge to Career Guidance: Mobilising
Research, Policy and Practice Around Social Justice 1
TRISTRAM HOOLEY, RONALD G. SULTANA AND RIE THOMSEN
PART I
Understanding the Neoliberal Context 29
2 A Twenty-First Century Challenge: How to Lead
an Active Life Whilst Contributing to Sustainable
and Equitable Development 31
JACQUES POUYAUD AND JEAN GUICHARD
3 The Pervasive Influence of Neoliberalism on Policy Guidance
Discourses in Career/Education: Delimiting the Boundaries
of Social Justice in New Zealand 47
BARRIE A. IRVING
4 Precarity, Austerity and the Social Contract in a Liquid
World: Career Guidance Mediating the Citizen and the State 63
RONALD G. SULTANA
5 Social Justice and Geographical Location in Career Guidance 77
ROSIE ALEXANDER
6 A War Against the Robots? Career Guidance, Automation
and Neoliberalism 93
TRISTRAM HOOLEY
7 Social Media and Social Justice in the Context of Career
Guidance: Is Education Enough? 109
RACHEL BUCHANAN
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PART II
Building Theories for Change 125
8 Social Justice in Career Guidance: A Fraserian Approach 127
SUZANNE RICE
9 Conflicting Perspectives on Career: Implications
for Career Guidance and Social Justice 143
INGELA BERGMO-PRVULOVIC
10 Exploring Politics at the Intersection of Critical Psychology
and Career Guidance: A Freudo-Marxist Case
for Radical Refusal 159
CHAD D. OLLE
11 Looking for Social Justice Through Agency: Applying
Giddens’s Structuration Theory to Career Guidance
Research and Analysis 177
ANNA BILON
12 The Gap Between Theory and Context as a Generator
of Social Injustice: Seeking to Confront Social
Inequality in Brazil Through Career Guidance 193
MARCELO AFONSO RIBEIRO AND GUILHERME DE
OLIVEIRA SILVA FONÇATTI
PART III
Research for Practice 209
13 Widening Opportunities for Career Guidance: Research
Circles and Social Justice 211
BO KLINDT POULSEN, RANDI BOELSKIFTE SKOVHUS
AND RIE THOMSEN
14 Connecting Big and Intimate Worlds: Using an Auto/
Biographical Research Imagination in Career Guidance 227
HAZEL REID AND LINDEN WEST
15 Shaping Possible Futures in Portugal: Career Guidance
in Schools Between Authenticity and Social Justice 241
MARIA MANUEL VIEIRA, BRUNO DIONÍSIO AND LIA PAPPÁMIKAIL
Contents ix
16 Rethinking Social Justice, Equality and Emancipation:
An Invitation to Attentive Career Guidance 255
ANKI BENGTSSON
Contributors 269
Index 273
