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ERIC Number: EJ1163946
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jan
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6283
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Affordances and Alignments: Continuing Challenges in Advising Undergraduate Psychology Majors
Landrum, R. Eric
Teaching of Psychology, v45 n1 p84-90 Jan 2018
Challenges abound in providing accurate and useful information to prospective and declared psychology majors about their career options and how to make decisions that will lead to satisfying and rewarding postgraduate lives. One component of this challenge is that by majoring in psychology, career affordances (i.e., the opportunities and limitations inherent to psychology) lead to generalized opportunities that are available to many different disciplinary majors. Another component of this challenge is the alignment between students' self-reflection and understanding about career goals being aligned with accurate and available information about the desired careers. Understanding how affordances and alignments affect psychology major advising may provide a fruitful framework in moving forward to provide the best professional development resources possible.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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