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Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press

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posted on 2022-10-07, 12:50 authored by Ghazal Vahidi, John ArnoldJohn Arnold, Sarah BarnardSarah Barnard

In this article we examine the print media portrayal of career transitions by adapting Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. The aim is to explore and critically analyse the newspaper articles published in The Times, Guardian, and Daily Mail between 1985 and 2015, the same time span in which career development theories started to get public attention. In particular, we answer the question of how the language used by journalists influences assumptions about personal agency in career development. Assessing the similarities and differences of the dominant academic discourses and the social characteristic of the press provides a setting to draw conclusions about the social implications of career theories.

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Loughborough University

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  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Volume

50

Issue

4

Pages

617-630

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Author(s)

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

Acceptance date

2022-05-09

Publication date

2022-07-03

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

0306-9885

eISSN

1469-3534

Language

  • en

Depositor

Ghazal Vahidi. Deposit date: 4 July 2022

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