Career guidance in multicultural societies: identity, alterity, epiphanies and pitfalls
Career guidance in multicultural societies: identity, alterity, epiphanies and pitfalls
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多元文化社会中的职业指导：身份、差异、顿悟和陷阱
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2017
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R. Sultana
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摘要 本文为多元文化社会中的职业指导问题提供了一种界定范围的方法。它从探索“文化”的含义开始，摆脱“背包”方法，将文化视为一组容易脱落或穿上的世界观和性格，转向人类学对文化的理解，将文化视为根深蒂固的意义创造方式，渗透到一个人生活的各个层面以及一个人与他人的关系。这种复杂的文化方法要求职业指导工作者质疑他们对自己和他人的看法，并面对差异性的挑战。在实现这种令人不安的向内延伸和向外延伸的过程中，以及在努力获得“知道”的顿悟的过程中，需要承认和克服许多陷阱。其中包括我们自己刚开始的单一文化主义、文化的浪漫化、本质化和异国情调，以及有限的平等观念。
ABSTRACT This paper provides a scoping approach to the issue of career guidance in multicultural societies. It starts off by exploring the meaning of ‘culture’, moving away from ‘back-pack’ approaches that consider culture as a set of worldviews and dispositions that are readily shed or put on, to anthropological understandings of culture as deeply held ways of meaning making that permeate all levels of one’s life and one’s relationship with others. Such complex approaches to culture challenge career guidance workers to problematise notions they hold of themselves and of others, and to face up to the challenge of alterity. In effecting this troubling reaching inwards and reaching outwards, and in striving for the epiphany of ‘knowing’, a number of pitfalls need to be acknowledged and overcome. These include our own incipient monoculturalism, the romanticisation, essentialisation and exoticisation of culture, as well as restricted notions of equality.