Reflexively fumbling towards a sustainable career choice in the Humanities

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2016
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Khanye, Ayanda Pearl
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University of the Free State
Abstract in other languages ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ข๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด, ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ก๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ
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๐‘ฌ๐’๐’ˆ๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’‰ The purpose of this study was to design a strategy for assisting Humanities students to reflect on choices they have made in order to move towards sustainable careers. Humanities students are believed to have difficulties in finding employment after their graduation. Figures in the Humanities and Social Sciences have been concerned by a lack of appreciation and recognition of this problem by policymakers and administrators in the Educational sector. The focus of this study is therefore on academic practitioners in education institutions who help students make decisions on career choice, particularly socio-economic, political and other contextual factors. This study was further informed by Pryor and Brightโ€™s (2011) โ€˜Chaos Theory of Careersโ€™ (CTC) that enables individuals to capitalise on change and chance in designing a career that enacts personal meaning and social construction. The discussion also espouses the Critical Emancipatory Research (CER) as the theoretical framework that informs this study. The grounding principles of CER were communicated by the Participatory Action Research (PAR), as adopted in this study for data generation. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is used to analyse data. In this study I argue that life is uncertain as everything is subject to change, revealing limitation and thus vulnerability. It investigates approaches available to meet the challenges and possibilities of uncertainty in sustainable career choice, aimed at helping students to reflexively make sustainable career choice. The value of this research was to enlighten the plight of Humanities students in choosing their careers in Higher Education. ___________________________________________________________________
๐‘จ๐’‡๐’“๐’Š๐’Œ๐’‚๐’‚๐’๐’” Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n strategie te ontwerp vir help eesteswetenskappe studente om te besin oor loopbaan keuses wat hulle in orde te beweeg na volhoubare loopbaan keuse gemaak het. Geesteswetenskappe studente word geglo dat probleme in die vind van indiensneming nรก hul gradeplegtigheid het. Geesteswetenskappe en Sosiale Wetenskappe het bekommerd oor die gebrek aan waardering en erkenning deur die beleidmakers en administrateurs in 'n opvoedkundige sektor. Die fokus van hierdie studie is op studente en akademiese praktisyns onderwys instellings wat help studente om besluite te neem op beroepskeuse. Klem word geplaas op die sosio-ekonomiese, politieke en ander kontekstuele faktore wat 'n invloed loopbaan keuse. Hierdie studie word verder ingelig deur Pryor en Bright (2011) se Chaos Teorie van Loopbane (CTC), wat individue in staat stel om te kapitaliseer op verandering en die kans in die ontwerp loopbaan wat persoonlike betekenis en sosiale konstruksie te implementeer. Die bespreking ook verloof die Kritieke emansiperende Navorsing (CER) as die teoretiese raamwerk wat hierdie studie lig. Die begronding beginsels van CER gekommunikeer deur die deelnemende aksienavorsing (PAR), soos PAR in hierdie studie vir data generasie aangeneem word. Kritiese diskoersanalise (CDA) word gebruik om data te ontleed. In hierdie studie argumenteer ons dat die lewe is onseker alles is onderhewig aan verandering. Die situasie dan bring onsekerheid; die onsekerheid openbaar dan beperking en beperking seine kwesbaarheid. Hierdie studie ondersoek dus benaderings beskikbaar is om die uitdagings en moontlikhede van onsekerheid in volhoubare loopbaan keuse te ontmoet. Hierdie studie het ten doel om studente te help refleksief maak volhoubare loopbaan keuse op 'n inrigting vir hoรซr onderwys. Die waarde van hierdie navorsing is om die lot van die Geesteswetenskappe studente verlig in die keuse van hul loopbane in Hoรซr Onderwys. ___________________________________________________________________
๐‘บ๐’†๐‘บ๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’ Sepheo sa diphuputso tsena ke ho sibolla mokgwa wa ho thusa baithuti ba mafapha a tsa botho ho nahanisa hantle ka kgetho eo ba e etsang e le ho fumana mesebetsi e tshwarellang. Ho dumelwa hore baithuti ba mafapha a tsa botho ba na le mathata a ho fumana mosebetsi kamora ho qeta mangolo a dikgau tsa bona. Dipalopalo mafapheng a tsa botho le Mahlale a Setjhaba a ngongorehile ka hore bothata bona bo se ke ba natswa le ho elwa hloko ke baetsi ba maano le batsamaisi ka hara mokga wa thuto. Mosebetsi ona ka ho qolleha o tobane le baphethahatsi ba thuto diinstitjusheneng tsa thuto ba thusang baithuti bakeng sa ho kgetha mesebetsi, haholoholo dintlha tsa moruo wa setjhaba, dipolotiki le dintlha tsa maemo a mang. Diphuputso tsena di tsheheditswe hape ka dintlha tsa Pryor and Brightโ€™s (2011) โ€˜Chaos Theory of Careersโ€™ (CTC) tse thusang motho ka mong ho toboketsa hodima phetoho le monyetla wa ho theha mosebetsi o tla ba le mohopolo o motle wa botho ba motho le kaho ya setjhaba. Dipuisano di sebedisa Critical Emancipatory Research (CER) e le moralo wa teori o hlakisang diphuputso tsena. Maano ana a motheo a CER a tsebahaditswe ke Participatory Action Research (PAR), jwalokaha e sebediswa diphuputsong tsena bakeng sa ho theha dintlha tsa diphuputso. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) e sebedisitswe ho sekaseka dintlha tsa diphuputso. Diphuputsong tsena ke hlahisa maikutlo a hore bophelo ha bo na botsitso ba ho tiisa nnete ka lebaka la hore ntho tsohle di ka fetoha, ka ho bontsha bofokodi mme e be di na le bofokodi. Diphuputso tsena di fuputsa mekgwa ya ho rarolla diphephetso le kgonahalo ya ho se be le bonnete bakeng sa ho kgetha mesebetsi e tshwarellang, e reretsweng ho thusa baithuti ho ba le boinahanelo ba ho kgetha mesebetsi e tshwarellang. Molemo wa diphuputso tsena ke ho hlakisa mathata a baithuti ba lefapha la tsa botho bakeng sa ho kgetha mesebetsi ka hara Thuto e Phahameng. ___________________________________________________________________
๐‘ฐ๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’๐’– Inhloso yalolu cwaningo bekuwukuklama isu lokusiza abafundi bomkhakha we zabantu (Humanities) ukuthi bacabange ngezinqumo abazenzile ukuze bafinyelele emisebenzini esimeme. Abafundi balomkhakha kukholakala ukuthi baba nobunzima bokuthola umsebenzi ngemuva kokuphothula izifundo zabo. Izibalo zomkhakha wezabantu nezesayensi yezenhlalo (Social Sciences) ziye zakhathazwa ukuntula ukwazisa nokuqashelwa kwale nkinga ngabakhi bezinqubomgomo nabaphathi emkhakheni Wezemfundo. Ngakho-ke lolu cwaningo lugxile kubasebenzi bezemfundo ezikhungweni zemfundo abasiza abafundi ukuthi benze izinqumo mayelana nokukhetha umsebenzi, ikakhulukazi izici zenhlalo-mnotho, ezombusazwe nezinye izimo. Lolu cwaningo lwabuye lwaziswa injulalwazi kaPryor noBrightโ€™s (2011) โ€˜Chaos Theory of Careersโ€™ (CTC) eyenza abantu bakwazi ukusebenzisa ushintsho nethuba ekuklameni umsebenzi oveza incazelo yomuntu siqu kanye nokwakhiwa komphakathi. Ingxoxo iphinde iphakamise iCritical Emancipatory Research (CER) njengohlaka lwenjulalwazi olwazisa lolu cwaningo. Izimiso eziyisisekelo ze-CER zivezwe yi-Participatory Action Research (PAR), njengoba yamukelwe kulolu cwaningo ukuze kwenziwe idatha. I-Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) isetshenziselwe ukuhlaziya idatha. Kulolu cwaningo ngithi impilo ayinasiqiniseko njengoba yonke into ingashintsha, iveze imikhawulo kanjalo nokuba sengozini. Ucwaningo luphenya izindlela ezitholakalayo ukuze kuhlangatshezwane nezinselele kanye namathuba okungaqiniseki ekukhetheni umsebenzi osimeme, okuhloswe ngawo ukusiza abafundi ukuba bakwazi ukukhetha umsebenzi osimeme. Ukubaluleka kwalolu cwaningo bekuwukukhanyisela usizi lwabafundi bomkhakha wezabantu (Humanities) ekukhetheni imisebenzi yabo emfundweni ephakeme. ___________________________________________________________________
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Thesis (Ph.D.(Higher Education Studies))--University of the Free State, 2016
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Career choice, reflexively fumbling, sustainability, change and chance events, humanities -- study and teaching, educational counseling
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