https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/17964 2026-04-23T02:52:53Z 2026-04-23T02:52:53Z Sultana, Ronald G. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90931 2023-01-24T08:59:46Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The labour market integration of migrants and refugees : career guidance and the newly arrived Authors: Sultana, Ronald G. Abstract: This scoping paper sets out to consider various aspects of the phenomenon of people on the move, and to examine some of the ways in which career guidance has responded to the challenge of integrating the newly arrived. The paper is informed by a recognition of the dignity of individuals above any classifcatory system that places persons in a hierarchy, with some having access to rights that others are denied. This stance requires career practitioners to confront the prevalent vocabulary, discourses and attitudes circulating in the mainstream in order to become aware of—and to overcome—personal prejudice, thus opening up possibilities for more socially just forms of service. A synthesis of relevant literature concerning the integration of migrants and refugees in the labour market is provided in order to signpost emancipatory forms of career guidance, ones that move beyond an emphasis on individual resilience to take seriously the impact of exclusionary social practices and structures. The paper concludes by highlighting a number of initiatives that suggest that career guidance is rising to the challenge of catering for a diverse group of newly arrived by mobilising theoretical frameworks that are ft for purpose, by developing bespoke training programmes for practitioners, and by sharing the lessons learnt from the feld.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88087 2022-02-02T07:49:43Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Why a social justice informed approach to career guidance matters in the time of coronavirus Abstract: In this blog post, which was orginally published at www.careerguidancesocialjustice.wordpress.com, Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana and Rie Thomsen discuss how the coronavirus is shaping our careers. They argue that governments need to recognise that now is a critical time to support career guidance, because people’s careers are being critically disrupted by the virus. But, they go on to argue, that managing a crisis is not enough. Career guidance also has to help people to understand the way in which politics and power are shaping the post-coronavirus world. In such a situation, we need to be thinking about how we can make the new normal a more just, humane and sustainable world.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Sultana, Ronald G. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88007 2022-02-01T09:38:15Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Education for work in the Anthropocene : the role of career education and guidance Authors: Sultana, Ronald G. Abstract: One of the key lifeskills, or rather set of lifeskills, that young people need in their journey towards adulthood and economic independence involves the ability to plan educational and training pathways in relation to one or more occupations of their choice. This set of lifeskills entails several competences, including the ability to access, make sense of, and use information about self and environment (e.g. training and employment opportunities, requirements, and options), the ability to make reasoned choices and effective plans that implement those choices, and the ability to manage life transitions which, in most societies, have become less linear than in the past, and more complex and unstable (Walther, 2006; Schoon & Silbereisen, 2009; Barnes et al., 2020). Such lifeskills are neatly summarised in the so-called DOTS model, which implicitly or explicitly underpins most career education programmes world-wide (Hooley et al., 2013), and which highlights competences in decision-making, opportunity awareness, transition management, and self-awareness (Law & Watts, 1993; Law, 1999).

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooley, Tristram Sultana, Ronald G. Thomsen, Rie https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88006 2022-02-01T09:38:41Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Five signposts to a socially just approach to career guidance Authors: Hooley, Tristram; Sultana, Ronald G.; Thomsen, Rie Abstract: ‘Social justice’ can mean different things to different people. Such ambiguity does not have to be a weakness as there is value to a diversity of analyses, approaches and suggested remedies to injustice. Interest is growing as to whether career guidance can be one of these remedies by actively taking a stance in support of social justice. A social justice approach to career guidance is built on three main tenets: firstly, that individual’s careers are shaped by the contexts and communities within which they live, study and work; secondly, that we live in an unequal world which means that the opportunities that individuals have to develop their careers are unequal. Any theory that purports to explain how career works needs to recognise this inequality; and thirdly, that career guidance has the capacity to intervene in this unequal world and support people to flourish.

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