Finding the Finishing Line. Career Support for Experimentation: Transitions and the Role of Lifelong Learning

• In Event: Roundtable Session 50
  In Roundtable Session: Methodological Knowledge and Issues in Biographical Research

Abstract

Mid-life career transitions and individual approaches to learning have been in the centre of two biographical European research projects. The chapter depicts the situation of structural support for career management in Denmark, France, Italy and Spain. The ways in which individuals draw on their resources or navigate their careers without is illustrated by means of life and career stories of three adults. Their narrations illustrate how individual dispositions related to self-efficacy, agency, motivation and self-construction shape their responses at career cross-roads. It becomes obvious from the stories that preparation for career adaptability and the development of career management skills is essential for adults to successfully navigate their life course.

Author

• Antje Barabasch, Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training