Storying career choice: Employing narrative approaches to better understand students' experience of choosing social work as a preferred career

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-209

  Mensinga, Jo ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Career choice; Gender; Meaning making; Narrative inquiry; Social positioning; Social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949097071     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325009103375     Document Type: Article

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