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 editorsTaskinen, Helena

eISBN978-952-86-0136-4

Journal or seriesJYU Dissertations

eISSN2489-9003

Publication year2024

Number in series778

Number of pages in the book1 verkkoaineisto (203 sivua)

PublisherJyväskylän yliopisto

Publication countryFinland

Publication languageFinnish

Persistent website addresshttps://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-86-0136-4

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessOpen 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


Keywordsmiddle-aged personschange of careercareer planningcareer guidancecareer developmentnarrativitylifelong learningdoctoral dissertations

Free keywordscareer transition; narrativity; middle age; continuous learning


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Ministry reportingYes

VIRTA submission year2024


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