Careers and Freedom

A New Perspective on Career Development

AvPeter J. Robertson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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‘This is an amazing book which explores careers from an extremely original perspective and does it in a very readable way ... I learnt a huge amount while reading it and was enormously impressed with the way that it draws such diverse influences together into a coherent whole.’Professor Tristram HooleyThis is a book about career theory; it addresses concepts to describe people’s careers. Significantly, it enhances career development practice to support individuals to make informed choices and further their lives. It is inspired by the Capability Approach, a moral framework developed by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, which addresses issues of social justice, freedom and wellbeing. Professor Robertson draws on systems thinking and innovatively applies it to career development. He develops a way of thinking that promotes a ‘big picture’ overview of careers, which, in turn, facilitates an understanding of the full range of helping strategies open to practitioners. The result is a theory designed to support practitioners’ understanding; not an approach that exists solely to further academic discourse. Additional insights and perspectives from the disciplines of economics, philosophy and politics will ensure that this becomes a foundational text and will provide a major and long-lasting contribution to scholarship in this field.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-25
Mått:1560 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Trotman Indigo Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781911724858

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Peter J. Robertson is Professor of Career Guidance at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. He is a Fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC), a learned society. He teaches career theory and policy to trainee guidance practitioners. His research interests include the relationship between career and well-being, and employment support for disadvantaged groups. Peter J. Robertson was lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Career Development (2020) and an editor of the Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (2016-2024). He has written numerous academic journal articles on career guidance and career development.

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‘This is an amazing book which explores careers from an extremely original perspective and does it in a very readable way. It is a really important contribution and one which should be integrated into the theoretical canon of the field. I learnt a huge amount while reading it and was enormously impressed with the way that it draws such diverse influences together into a coherent whole.’Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby and Visiting Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and Canterbury Christ Church University

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Chapter 1: IntroductionPART 1: THEORY, JUSTICE AND FREEDOMChapter 2: Career theory and its discontents Chapter 3: Social justice and freedom: A philosophical perspectiveChapter 4: Freedom, work and careers: An economic perspectiveChapter 5: Unfreedom and careers PART 2: CAPABILITIES, RESOURCES AND CHOICEChapter 6: Introducing the Capability ApproachChapter 7: Resources, constraints and enablersChapter 8: Choice, values and the 'good life'PART 3: SYSTEMS THINKINGChapter 9: Frameworks for systems thinkingChapter 10: Building a model of the person Chapter 11: Extending a model of the person PART 4: INTEGRATION AND APPLICATIONChapter 12: An integrated model for career guidance Chapter 13: Autonomy as an integrative concept for career developmentChapter 14: Career Authority and Freedom Theory: CrAFT: A summaryFurther readingGlossary of career-related terminology