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Title: Career guidance in Egypt : partnership in international cooperation for national development
Other Titles: Career guidance and livelihood planning across the Mediterranean : challenging transitions in South Europe and the MENA region
Authors: Khalil, Shahinaz
Keywords: Vocational guidance -- Egypt
Career development -- Egypt
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Citation: Khalil, S. (2017). Career guidance in Egypt : partnership in international cooperation for national development. In R. G. Sultana (Ed.), Career guidance and livelihood planning across the Mediterranean : challenging transitions in South Europe and the MENA region (pp. 172-186). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Abstract: In this chapter I will discuss how the term ‘career’, which was born in a western, individualistically oriented, industrialised context, travels to other cultural and economic contexts where the notion of ‘career’ is not indigenous. Career guidance can thus be theorised as a globally travelling idea which, however, must materialise in a narrative permitting a mediated interpretation and experience, and converted into actions that are meaningful in the new context that they become embedded in. During this process of global movement, meanings and practices change, new constructions emerge, and different orientation patterns become evident. These shifts and changes play out at national level, particularly in the context of international cooperation projects. Such projects have development as a common target, and yet they may differ in regard to the values they promote, and whether their view of development is more labour market and GDP-oriented or adopts a more holistic and societal approach. Such differences impact on the way they conceptualise the individual, and whether the programmes implemented adopt a competence-based or a capability-oriented approach. International actors introducing development programmes to promote sustainable futures need to carefully consider the cultural fit aspect. If this is not taken into account, efforts are likely to lead to rejection of reforms proposed. This chapter addresses such issues by critically considering the career guidance project implemented by the Employment Promotion Programme of the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Egypt.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/34066
ISBN: 9789463009904
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