ERIC Number: EJ948302
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Dec
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Adolescent Career Development in Urban-Residing Aboriginal Families in Canada
Marshall, Sheila K.; Young, Richard A.; Stevens, Alison; Spence, Wayne; Deyell, Stewart; Easterbrook, Adam; Brokenleg, Martin
Career Development Quarterly, v59 n6 p539-558 Dec 2011
The purpose of this study was to understand how urban-residing Aboriginal adolescent-parent dyads (n = 11) jointly constructed and acted on goals and strategies with their social supports (n = 17) to facilitate the adolescents' career development. A modified protocol following the qualitative action-project method was used. A discrete joint project was identified for each family. These joint projects can be clustered into 3 joint career development projects: (a) navigating toward a safe future, (b) negotiating school continuance, and (c) intergenerational continuity through tradition of care. A 4th project emerging from the data was family survival. Family survival projects supplanted participants' efforts to engage in career development projects.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Indigenous Populations, Urban Areas, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Goal Orientation, Social Support Groups, Altruism, Family Environment, Social Influences, Political Influences, Academic Persistence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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