Mary Mcmahon

Career Assessment: Qualitative Approaches Mary Mcmahon

Publisher Marketing: Career Assessment: Qualitative Approaches will assume a seminal place in the field of career development as the first book to focus solely on qualitative approaches to career assessment. This book represents a timely and important contribution to career development as it seeks to meet the needs of increasingly diverse client groups. Part 1, Foundations strongly positions qualitative career assessment in its historical, philosophical, theoretical and research contexts. The book is innovative by considering qualitative career assessment through the lens of learning. Part 2, Instruments, presents the first collation of chapters on a comprehensive range of qualitative career assessment instruments and processes written to a standard format to enable readers to compare, contrast and evaluate approaches. Part 3, Using quantitative career assessment qualitatively, mitigates against depicting an unnecessary divide in the field between quantitative and qualitative career assessment by considering their complementarities. Part 4, Diverse Contexts, considers qualitative approaches to career assessment in contexts other than able western, middle class settings. Part 5, Future Directions, reflects on the chapters and poses suggestions for the future. With high profile authors from nine different countries, the book represents a truly international contribution to the field of career development. In its focus on qualitative career assessment, this book holds a unique position as the only such text and will therefore assume an important place in the libraries of researchers, academics, and career practitioners. Contributor Bio:  McMahon, Mary Mary McMahon is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her particular interests are the career development of children and adolescents, and the application of constructivist approaches to career counselling and assessment. She is especially interested in qualitative career assessment. Mary is the author of a number of books, book chapters, and refereed journal articles. Contributor Bio:  Watson, Mark Mark Watson was born in England, Pablo Michau in South Africa, both now live in Mataro, Spain. "We met through our children, they attend the same school and are the only English speaking kids in their class." Mark is an English teacher in the little Spanish town and Pablo is a freelance illustrator/graphic designer. ""After a brief conversation about our hopes for the future and our love of children's books we decided to take one of Mark's existing stories and put it together. We are much happier with the result than we could have hoped."" After their first collaboration Mark and Pablo have decided to work exclusively together on many more children's books, as Mark explains ""Pablo has the ability to see the pictures I have in my mind, as a child walking to school through the park I used to daydream about a shark under the grass chasing me, not only has Pablo managed to capture the threat and fear of a giant shark, he has also managed to faithfully reproduce the park of my childhood, in all it's mysterious glory."" Their next books together will feature a variety of new characters and animals, some familiar, some not. http: //marknpablo.com/