Abstract
Other disciplines offer new perspectives, concepts, and models that would help vocational psychology reinvigorate itself. The paper identifies contributions (such as narrative) that post-modern sources and scientific disciplines could make, though with reservations about importing ideas from the physical sciences into the social sciences. There would also be challenges for vocational psychology, primarily to its core values as a science but those could change over time. As an example, the paper then discusses how some of the lessons of narratology could enrich post-modern approaches, while its structuralism could enable vocational psychology to take advantage of the potential contributions of narrative.
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Contributions d’autres disciplines et défis pour la psychologie vocationnelle: Exemples des récits et de la narratologie. D’autres disciplines offrent de nouvelles perspectives, de nouveaux concepts et modèles qui pourraient aider la psychologie vocationnelle à se revigorer. Cet article identifie des contributions (telles que le récit) que les sources post-modernes et les disciplines scientifiques pourraient apporter, avec les réserves d’usage quant à l’importation d’idées en provenance des sciences physiques dans les sciences sociales. Il pourrait aussi y avoir des défis à relever pour la psychologie vocationnelle, principalement quant à ses valeurs fondamentales comme science avec une évolution possible au cours du temps. Comme exemple, l’article discute la manière dont certaines des leçons de la narratologie pourraient enrichir les approches post-modernes, tandis que son caractère structuraliste pourrait permettre à la psychologie vocationnelle de tirer profit des contributions potentielles du récit.
Zusammenfassung
Beiträge und Herausforderungen für die Berufspsychologie aus anderen Disziplinen: Beispiele aus der Narrationstechnik und der Narrationswissenschaft. Andere Disziplinen bieten neue Perspektiven, Konzepte und Modelle an, die der Berufspsychologie helfen könnten, sich neu zu beleben. Dieser Artikel identifiziert Beiträge (wie die Narrationstechnik), die von postmodernen Quellen und wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen kommen könnten, wenn auch mit Vorbehalten gegenüber der Übertragung von Ideen aus physischen Wissenschaften in die Sozialwissenschaften. Es würden sich auch Herausforderungen für die Berufspsychologie ergeben, insbesondere im Hinblick auf deren zentrale Werte als Wissenschaft, die sich jedoch im Laufe der Zeit verändern würden. Als Beispiel diskutiert dieser Artikel anschließend, wie einige Erkenntnisse der Narrationswissenschaft die postmodernen Ansätze bereichern könnten, während gleichzeitig deren Strukturierungen der Berufspsychologie helfen könnten, Vorteile aus den potenziellen Beiträgen der Narrationstechniken zu ziehen.
Resumen
Retos y Contribuciones de Otras Disciplinas a la Psicología Vocacional: Ejemplos procedentes de la Narrativa y la Narratología. Otras disciplinas ofrecen nuevas perspectivas, conceptos y modelos que ayudarían a la Psicología vocacional a revitalizarse. Este artículo identifica algunas de las posibles contribuciones (por ejemplo la narrativa) que fuentes postmodernas y disciplinas científicas podrían aportar, aunque con las reservas necesarias al importar ideas de las ciencias físicas a las ciencias sociales. También supondría nuevos retos para la Psicología vocacional, sobre todo respecto a sus valores principales como ciencia, pero estos podrían cambiar con el tiempo. Como ejemplo, presenta cómo algunas lecciones de la “narratología” podrían enriquecer los enfoques postmodernos, mientras que el estructuralismo podía permitir a la Psicología vocacional aprovecharse de las contribuciones potenciales de la narrativa.
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Collin, A. Contributions and challenges to vocational psychology from other disciplines: examples from narrative and narratology. Int J Educ Vocat Guidance 7, 159–167 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-007-9122-8
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