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Career Theory for Change: The Influences of Social Constructionism and Constructivism, and Convergence

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of career theories, and within the context of the need for a shift in philosophical underpinnings of career theory describes the core principles of constructivism and social constructionism and their role in the focus on convergence in career theory. It reviews the literature on bridging frameworks, judged to be capable of providing integrative capacity. While the 2008 edition of this chapter explored two theoretical contributions in detail, career construction theory and the Systems Theory Framework, theoretical discussions categorised as emerging at its time of writing have now become more established. As such, the chapter reviews six theoretical formulations which reflect developments in both theory integration and in the influence of social constructionism and constructivism in career theory. The multidisciplinary interconnection of theories and the contribution of this work to theoretical integration is also discussed.

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