Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries: (9 Career Development Series)

Career brings together individuals’ paths through life, learning and work. It describes how people interface with social institutions including the education system, employers, civil society and the state. Because our careers are socially and culturally embedded it matters where they are enacted. Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries explores what kind of context the Nordic region offers for the pursuit of career, how the development of careers are supported in welfare societies, and how career guidance is enacted in this context. The Nordic region encompasses an area in Northern Europe and the Northern Atlantic comprising Denmark, Sweden, Norway as well as Finland to the east and Iceland in the Atlantic. It includes also the self-governing areas of Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. This region has long been seen as a source of progressive policy innovation in education and employment and this book focuses and explores the place, the enactment and the theories of career guidance in these Nordic countries.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Setting Nordic Career Guidance in Context  EriK Hagaseth Haug, Tristram Hooley, Jaana Kettunen and Rie Thomsen Part 1: Career Guidance Policy and Systems 2. The ‘Idea of Career’ and ‘A Welfare State of Mind’: On the Nordic Model for Welfare and Career  Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke 3. Pining for the Fjords: International Perceptions of Nordic Work, Education and Career Guidance  Tristram Hooley 4. Gender Equality and Career Guidance in a Nordic Context  Torild Schulstok and Frida Wikstrand 5. Career Guidance in Nordic Self Governing Regions: Opportunties and Challenges  Rosie Alexander, Anna-Elisabeth Holm, Deirdre Hansen and Kistâra Motzfeldt Vahl 6. Career Guidance and the Production of Subjectivity  Roger Kjærgård 7. Swedish Career Guidance: History, Development and Dilemmas  Anders Lovén 8. Guidance in the Danish Educational Sector: The Development of the System Since 2000  Steffen Jensen 9. Lifelong Guidance in Finland: Key Policies and Practices  Anna Toni and Raimo Vuorinen Part 2: The Careers Professions and Professionalism 10. The Making of a Profession: The Development of the Careers Profession in Iceland  Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir 11. Enhancing Career Practitioners Understanding and Use of Ict in Guidance and Counselling  Jaana Kettunen, Mia Lindberg, Elsebeth Nygaard and Jónina Kárdal 12. Cross-Cultural Validation of Assessment Instruments Used in Career Counselling and Guidance in the Nordic countries: Etic and Emic Approaches  Sif Einarsdóttir, María Dóra Björnsdóttir and Jukka Lerkkanen 13. Developing Guidance Competences for Learning Mobility  Mika Launikari, Nina Ahlroos, Ellen Hagen and Dóra Stefánsdóttir 14. Understandings of Career Guidance Quality in Norwegian Schools  Erik Hagaseth Haug 15. Come Together: Professional Development of Career Guidance Practitioners through Co-Generative Learning  Bo Klindt Poulsen and Trond Buland Part 3: Career Guidance Practice across the Lifecourse 16. Career Guidance in Norwegian Primary Education: Developing the Power of Dreams and the Power of Judgement  Siri Mordal, Trond Buland and Ida Holth Mathiesen 17. From Career Choice to Career Learning: Taster Programs and Students’ Meaning-Making Processes  Randi Boelskifte skovhus and Rie Thomsen 18. If Career Education Is the Solution, What Is the Implied Problem? A Critical Analysis of the Timetabled Subject of Educational Choice in Norwegian Schools  Petra Røise 19. Online Self-Help for Young Danes  Anette Jochumsen 20. One-Stop Guidance Service Centres in Finland  Jaana Kettunen and Teija Felt 21. Career Guidance for Refugees in a Nordic Context: The Need to Emphasise a More Collective Approach  Helene Fredriksen 22. Union Career Guidance in Denmark  Rie Thomsen, Kristina Mariager-Anderson and Palle Rasmussen 23. As Time Goes By: Geronto Guidance  Inger Marie Bakke, Lyn Barham and Peter Plant Index

About the Author :
Erik Hagaseth Haug, Ph.D., Inland Norway University of Applied Science, is Associate Professor and head of section for guidance studies and research at the university. He has published reports, articles and a book on quality development in career guidance. Tristram Hooley is a researcher and writer specialising in career and career guidance. He is Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby and Chief Research Officer at the Institute for Student Employers. Tristram also writes the Adventures in Career Development blog at https: //adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com/. Jaana Kettunen, Ph.D., is a is a researcher and vice-director at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is also a research associate at the Florida State University's Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development, USA. Jaana currently acts as a Junior Research Coordinator for the phenomenograpy/variation theory SIG of the European Association into Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Jaana's website https: //ktl.jyu.fi/en/staff/kettunen-jaana Rie Thomsen is professor MSO in career guidance and head of the Guidance Research Unit, School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also Professor II and head of the research group in career guidance at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Rie acts as the scientific coordinatior of The European Doctoral programme of career guidance and counselling (ECADOC). Rie's webpage: http: //au.dk/en/riet@edu