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Career Guidance

Perspectives from Islam and from Muslim Cultures

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Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean

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Abstract

The vast developing body of knowledge and practices in career guidance today is almost exclusively built on Western theories drawing on psychology, sociology, economics and management, among other disciplines. And yet today most countries are multicultural, with social practices such as career guidance called to adjust to different ways of seeing the world, and of being in it. Millions of Muslims live in the West, from among a worldwide community of 1.6 billion faithful spread across the five continents.

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  1. Aboubakr Abdeen Badawi
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    Ronald G. Sultana

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Badawi, A.A. (2017). Career Guidance. In: Sultana, R.G. (eds) Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean. EMCER. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-992-8_4

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