Abstract
D.Ed.
The goal of this study is to design a model that could guide and direct the
educational psychologist in the facilitation of the client's self-knowledge for
career management:
The rationale of this study is based on the fact that previously the educational
psychologist, as career counsellor, had to counsel within specific limiting
boundaries. In terms of career counselling this meant that he simply guided the
client to make the correct career choice. Career management was not
considered by the educational psychologist as part and parcel of career
counselling.
The need for career management is reinforced by the view of the Gauteng
Education Department that education in South Africa is seen as a process of
lifelong education. Career counselling should therefore be conducted in such a
way that it ensures lifelong dividends.
Self-knowledge can be seen as the basis for career management. The educational
psychologist should possess specific knowledge and skills in order to facilitate
self-knowledge in such a way that a client is empowered to manage his own
career in a changing career market. The main purpose of this study will therefore
be:
the, development and description of a model that could serve as a guide to
the educational psychologist in the facilitation of a client's self-knovViedge
in order to empower him to do career management.
To be able to meet this goal the following sub-goals are set:
the exploration and description of the concepts necessary for self-knowledge
in order to do career management by means of a literature study;
the generation of the provisional model;
the evaluation and the refinement of the provisional model on the basis of
recommendations made by the model development experts and peer group
• the writing of a manual for educational psychologists regarding the
operationalisation of the final model.
The execution of the development of the model will be discussed in three
phases. During phase one the model is developed and described by means of a
literature research. The model is functional, therefore the survey list of Dickoff,
James and Wiedenbach (1968:435), is used to identify and classify the concepts in
the study. A concept analysis of the central concept "self-knowledge for career
management" is performed and a theoretical definition is:formulated. During
phase one the main concepts and their relationships to the central concept are
described in the form of relational statements. These statements do not only
highlight the relationship between the concepts, but also lay a sound foundation
for the conceptual framework on which the provisional model "self-knowledge
for career management" is based.
During phase two the provisional model is evaluated and refined by model
development experts and the peer group. According to the r,ecommendations
and the relevant critique, the model is refined and the final model described. The
final model describes the structure of the model, as well as the process to
facilitate self-knowledge for career management.
During phase three a manual is written on how to operationalise the model,
which serves as a guideline to the educational psychologist.