Adolescent Career Development in Urban‐Residing Aboriginal Families in Canada |
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| Authors: | Sheila K Marshall Richard A Young Alison Stevens Wayne Spence Stewart Deyell Adam Easterbrook Martin Brokenleg |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Social Work;2. Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education;3. Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;4. Vancouver School of Theology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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