G4 Doctoral dissertation (monograph)
Urasiirtymä keski-iässä : koulutushakupäätöksen ja lähihoitaja-ammatinvalinnan merkitys ja rakentuminen keski-ikäisten lähihoitajakoulutukseen hakeneiden tarinoissa (2024)
Taskinen, H. (2024). Urasiirtymä keski-iässä : koulutushakupäätöksen ja lähihoitaja-ammatinvalinnan merkitys ja rakentuminen keski-ikäisten lähihoitajakoulutukseen hakeneiden tarinoissa [Doctoral dissertation]. Jyväskylän yliopisto. JYU Dissertations, 778. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-86-0136-4
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Taskinen, Helena
eISBN: 978-952-86-0136-4
Journal or series: JYU Dissertations
eISSN: 2489-9003
Publication year: 2024
Number in series: 778
Number of pages in the book: 1 verkkoaineisto (203 sivua)
Publisher: Jyväskylän yliopisto
Publication country: Finland
Publication language: Finnish
Persistent website address: https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-86-0136-4
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Abstract
This research aims to investigate the biographical meaning and construction of adults' career transitions. The subject of this biographical-narrative research is the reflective construction of career-related life stories by middle-aged people. In this research, I examine careers as an individual's internal, subjective experience on the one hand and, on the other hand, as an individual script that one writes in a planned and anticipatory way but also reflecting on the events and decisions of their lives afterwards. The research material includes 14 narrative interviews. Both the data analysis methods and reporting of results are narrative. The career-related life stories of the research participants were individual, multi-layered, and dynamic accounts of the factors that led to their decision to seek education and to become practical nurses, as well as of the construction and significance of the decision to apply for a job in the narrators' lives. In the results, I describe the biographical significance of a career transition through the five types of stories I have constructed. In describing the construction of career transition, I consider the intertwined and dynamic developmental processes of identity and agency. The story types and the developmental processes of identity and agency form a continuum in my narrative research material. The development process of narrators' identity and agency was seen as strengthening in the story type 'clarification of the authentic self', renewal in the story type 'finding meaning', adaptation in the story type 'seeking qualifications', survival in the story type 'making an unavoidable choice’, and narrowed in the story type 'continuing a career legacy'. The scientific contribution of the study is related to the identification, understanding, and acceptance of the multiple meanings and ways of constructing the decisions of adult vocational training applicants. This understanding will enable the identification of and efforts to address adults’ guidance and career counselling needs before, during, and in the transition to education and training. The results suggest that the lifelong career guidance service system needs to be developed to better meet adults’ guidance and career counseling needs.
Keywords: career transition, narrativity, middle age, continuous learning
Keywords: middle-aged persons; change of career; career planning; career guidance; career development; narrativity; lifelong learning; doctoral dissertations
Free keywords: career transition; narrativity; middle age; continuous learning
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