ABSTRACT

This paper draws on the fund of regional knowledge about career guidance that comparative research has generated in the “global South”. The goal of the paper is to add another voice to the challenge to the universalising language that characterises career guidance theory and practice, and to further highlight the serious attention that needs to be given to “localisms” and “particularisms” so that responses that are sensitive to context can emerge. While several authors make a case for attention to context, few explicitly link epistemological and ontological concerns to the issue of political power. In contrast, in this paper I argue that inductive theorising is more likely to not only generate relevant and useful knowledge and practices: it is also more likely to serve the interests of social justice.

摘要

本文利用了比较研究在“全球南方”产生的职业指导区域知识基金。本文的目的是为对职业指导理论和实践所特有的普遍化语言的挑战增添另一种声音，并进一步强调需要对“地方主义”和“特殊主义”给予认真关注，以便做出回应可能会出现对上下文的敏感。虽然一些作者提出了对背景的关注，但很少有人明确地将认识论和本体论的关注与政治权力问题联系起来。相比之下，在本文中，我认为归纳理论不仅更有可能产生相关且有用的知识和实践：它也更有可能服务于社会正义的利益。