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Abstract
Psychological models have portrayed career choice narratives in terms of personality dimensions or socio-cognitive reasoning processes. In contrast to these approaches, the research reported on in this study employs a conversation analytic perspective in order to examine the deployment of career choice narratives in terms of intelligibility and accountability. Nursing students on a degree programme were interviewed about their career choice. The responses given are examined for the display of membership categories in terms of personality characteristics commonly associated with nursing as a vocational choice. In addition, the students’ accounts are considered as a means of publicly displaying their volition in terms of a reasoned process involving having made a career choice.
title = "Vocation and volition: career choice narratives",
abstract = "Psychological models have portrayed career choice narratives in terms of personality dimensions or socio-cognitive reasoning processes. In contrast to these approaches, the research reported on in this study employs a conversation analytic perspective in order to examine the deployment of career choice narratives in terms of intelligibility and accountability. Nursing students on a degree programme were interviewed about their career choice. The responses given are examined for the display of membership categories in terms of personality characteristics commonly associated with nursing as a vocational choice. In addition, the students{\textquoteright} accounts are considered as a means of publicly displaying their volition in terms of a reasoned process involving having made a career choice.",
author = "James Moir",
year = "2020",
month = feb
language = "English",
volume = "1",
pages = "9--20",
journal = "Academic Journal of International Education Research",
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Vocation and volition
T2 - career choice narratives
AU - Moir, James
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Psychological models have portrayed career choice narratives in terms of personality dimensions or socio-cognitive reasoning processes. In contrast to these approaches, the research reported on in this study employs a conversation analytic perspective in order to examine the deployment of career choice narratives in terms of intelligibility and accountability. Nursing students on a degree programme were interviewed about their career choice. The responses given are examined for the display of membership categories in terms of personality characteristics commonly associated with nursing as a vocational choice. In addition, the students’ accounts are considered as a means of publicly displaying their volition in terms of a reasoned process involving having made a career choice.
AB - Psychological models have portrayed career choice narratives in terms of personality dimensions or socio-cognitive reasoning processes. In contrast to these approaches, the research reported on in this study employs a conversation analytic perspective in order to examine the deployment of career choice narratives in terms of intelligibility and accountability. Nursing students on a degree programme were interviewed about their career choice. The responses given are examined for the display of membership categories in terms of personality characteristics commonly associated with nursing as a vocational choice. In addition, the students’ accounts are considered as a means of publicly displaying their volition in terms of a reasoned process involving having made a career choice.
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 9
EP - 20
JO - Academic Journal of International Education Research
JF - Academic Journal of International Education Research