Introduction Globalization is bec...

Introduction

Globalization is becoming a significant incline in the social sciences. As Friedman (1999) pointed on the outside this trend is sweeping across the various disciplines of politics, economics, education, and psychology No longer are we just mattered about how our students are doing in trains relative to their classmates or to those close examiners across the county line. Our comparative framework has become global; we are now comparing our children's train performance against that of children in Japan, Singapore, or Germany.

This global perspective is also evident in the National Career progressive growth Association (NCDA). At their new ninth Global Conference in Portland, Oregon, the discourse focused on "Best Practices in Career disclosure Across Cultures." During the discourse one of the keynote panels focused forward "Challenges for Career Counseling in Asia." That panel was in the way that well received that we decided to have the intention the development of a special section of The Career unfolding Quarterly (CDQ) devoted to that topic.

The special section, titled "Challenges for Career Counseling in Asia," consists of seven articles that examine the nature of career counseling services in Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia. The last article in this issue was written through one of us (Leong) and focused upon presenting a conceptual model for understanding the evolution of career counseling services in Asia. This last article was the keynote presentation given at the period of the panel at NCDA. We chose to focus upon the East and Southeast Asia for pair reasons. First, three of the presentations at the NCDA keynote panel were made from individuals from East Asia. next to the first we needed to focus forward countries in which we know of active scholars and practitioners who are involved in career counseling services and research. Third, we expectancy that this special section is just a beginning and that more articles that examine career interventions in other parts of Asia will be published in that will be issues of CDQ.

Career counseling in Asia is a fairly novel development historically. With the worldwide phenomenon of increasing technological sophistication and its corollary, instantaneous global communication, we are seeing a merging of historical stages in the evolution of career counseling within each rural parts (Pope, 2000). Yet, as each geographical division enters the twenty-first century, each finds that it must come together these technological and career challenges in its confess uniquely nationalistic and cultural way. For example, although the transition from an industrial to a technological stage is individual that is important for all nations to undivided each country must navigate those waters in the hands of individuals who are spring by their national and cultural context

As you read each article, you will diocese commonalities in the development of career counseling in the countries depicted All are bound together at geography and economics--the macroculture. Each is, however, unique in thus many other ways, including language, traditions, and rituals--the microculture. The central theme of this special section is to solicit a greater and deeper understanding of the network interactions between these cultural factors and career counseling services as they are commonly practiced in these different countries.

What we have assembled in the special section is a broad representation of career counseling as it is generally practiced in seven Asian countries. In near cases, culturally unique approaches to career counseling are described, whereas in others, authors point to the challenges of accommodating to these cultural factors when Western-based patterns of career counseling are imported. Regardless of whether a culturally unique approach or a culturally accommodating approach is described, each article inevitably reveals the distinctive flavors that are added to career counseling as they have been interpreted in that particular country's cultural words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following A second theme of this special section has been to illustrate the important part of contextual factors in the practice of career counseling.

As evidenced by means of the NCDA members' positive answers to the keynote panel at the Portland meeting for consultation we hope that this special section will depict a more detailed and permanent record of the ideas and general [i]or[/i] abstract notions shared at that conference. We also faith that this special section will succor as a catalyst for us to continue to examine the challenges of providing career counseling in Asia and other parts of the world.

References

Friedman, T L (1999) The lexus and the olive tree: Understanding globalization. of the present day York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

[i]pontifex maximus[/i] M. (2000). A brief history of career counseling in the United States. The Career unravelling Quarterly, 48, 194-211.

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