Career Decision Making for Diverse College Students With Disabilities

• In Event: Understanding Career Decisions and Postsecondary Trajectories

Abstract

A constructivist grounded theory study of purpose and career development was conducted with 59 college students with disabilities. Data explicate the nuanced ways students made meaning of their major/career decisions relative to the constraints imposed by the interaction between their lived disability experiences and a society constructed according to intersecting oppressive (i.e., ableist, racist, classist, sexist, genderist, heterosexist) norms. A grounded model of career decision making is presented.

Authors

• Annemarie Vaccaro, University of Rhode Island

• Adam Moore, University of Rhode Island

• Ezekiel Kimball, University of Maine

• Melanie Lee, University of Utah