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Career Development Learning and Sustainability Goals

Considerations for Research and Practice

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  • Foregrounds how work in this field aligns with the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals
  • Presents research methods applied to rigorous understanding of career development learning contexts across the lifespan
  • Applies innovative theory and method to collecting data with diverse groups in equity cohorts

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Partnerships and Collaborations in CDL Research

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About this book

This volume provokes conversations and reflections on the most appropriate methodologies to pursue Career Development Learning (CDL) research within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s. Drawing on studies with Australian students from diverse backgrounds, including low socioeconomic status, regional, rural and remote, with disability, etc., this volume uniquely highlights considerations for contextual and inclusive CDL research which advances multiple SDGs and quality futures across the globe. Although situated in Australian contexts, the case studies have international applicability.

This volume provides support to researchers who intend to investigate the effectiveness of career development strategies which further sustainable development objectives. Specifically, the book highlights the importance of partnership and innovative methods in socially-just research methodologies as well as practical ways that these can be undertaken. It encourages readers toconsider how they might frame their work in relation to the SDGs and create impactful research which furthers the agenda for sustainable development in localised ways.


Editors and Affiliations

  • National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Sarah O’Shea, Olivia Groves

  • University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Kylie Austin, Jodi Lamanna

About the editors

Professor Sarah O’Shea is the Director, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE), Curtin University, Australia, and a nationally and internationally recognised educator and researcher. She has held numerous university leadership positions, which have directly informed changes across the Australian higher education sector, particularly in the field of student access and participation. Sarah has published extensively and in the last decade and has been awarded nearly $AUD4 million in grant funding, as well as being recognised as an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow (ALTF), a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), and a Churchill Fellow (CF).

Dr Olivia Groves is an experienced teacher and educational researcher, currently based in Curtin University, Australia. Olivia spent 15 years teaching diverse learners in primary, language education, and tertiary settings internationally and now researches how educational equity can be achievedacross the lifespan. Olivia has specific interests in career education, English language learning, regional education and inclusive research methodologies.

Kylie Austin has 14 years’ experience working in the higher education sector leading the strategic planning of student equity initiatives, and is currently based at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Over this period, Kylie has led the implementation of outreach, transition and co-curricular programs that aim to increase the participation of students from identified equity backgrounds in higher education. Kylie has a significant research interest in how partnerships can increase outcomes for students from equity students across the student lifecycle. She has led and been involved in national research projects that have focused on widening participation to higher education and is the current President of Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA).

Jodi Lamanna works as a research assistant at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and her research skills support high quality, impactful qualitative research which aims to increase the body of knowledge and influence policy and practice. Recent work in the equity sector aligns with Jodi’s passion for equity in education. Her current work in career development learning is complimentary to her doctoral research, which focused on the reversal and prevention of underachievement in gifted students, viewed through the lens of lived experience. Her research utilised a qualitative approach, and has the potential to bring about changes in the classroom to support the learning needs of gifted, underachieving students.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Career Development Learning and Sustainability Goals

  • Book Subtitle: Considerations for Research and Practice

  • Editors: Sarah O’Shea, Olivia Groves, Kylie Austin, Jodi Lamanna

  • Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6637-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6636-1Published: 09 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6639-2Published: 10 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-6637-8Published: 08 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2523-3084

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 148

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics

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