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Bright, Jim E. H.; Pryor, Robert G. L. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2011
The Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC; Pryor & Bright, 2011) construes both individuals and the contexts in which they develop their careers in terms of complex dynamical systems. Such systems perpetually operate under influences of stability and change both internally and in relation to each other. The CTC introduces new concepts to account for…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Career Counseling, Counseling Services, Counseling Theories
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, Jim E. H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
This article presents the Chaos Theory of Careers with particular reference to the concepts of "attraction" and "attractors". Attractors are defined in terms of characteristic trajectories, feedback mechanisms, end states, ordered boundedness, reality visions and equilibrium and fluctuation. The identified types of attractors (point, pendulum,…
Descriptors: Careers, Career Development, Comparative Analysis
Pryor, Robert; Bright, Jim – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
This paper highlights five challenges to the accepted wisdom in career development theory and practice. It presents the chaos theory of careers and argues that the chaos theory provides a more complete and authentic account of human behaviour. The paper argues that positivism, reductionism and assumptions of linearity are inappropriate for…
Descriptors: Physics, Career Development, Holistic Approach, Prediction
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Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, Jim – Australian journal of Career Development, 2003
Four theoretical streams--contexualism/ecology, systems theory, realism/constructivism, and chaos theory--contributed to a theory of individuals as complex, unique, nonlinear, adaptive chaotic and open systems. Individuals use purposive action to construct careers but can make maladaptive and inappropriate choices. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Careers, Change, Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect