Graduates’ experiences and perceptions of career enactment: identity, transitions, personal agency and emergent career direction

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 50-63

  Leach, Tony ^a  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

career journeys; education for employability; Homi Bhabha; identity and careers; Martin Buber; personal agency; the politics of careers and hazards of passage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924043646     PISSN: 13596748     EISSN: 17475112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13596748.2015.993872     Document Type: Article

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