In search of career-life meaning : enhancing the existential experience of a gifted learner

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Sage

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This article reports on how intervention research based on integrative career counselling enhanced the existential experience of a gifted learner. The participant of this study was a purposively selected gifted 17-year-old girl learner in search of a career that would help her experience meaning, purpose, and hope in and through her career-life. An explanatory (QUALITATIVE-quantitative) research design was used together with qualitative career construction counselling-based methods. A new standardised test was used to generate quantitative data. Savickas’ guidelines for analysing career construction-elicited data were implemented to identify themes and subthemes in the outcomes. The intervention helped the participant decide on a career through which she could experience meaning, purpose, and hope in her career-life. Longitudinal research is needed to determine the medium- and long-term influence of the type of intervention discussed here with gifted learners in individual as well as group contexts across the diversity spectrum.

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Intervention research, Existential experience, Gifted learners, Career construction counselling, Qualitative-quantitative approach

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SDG-04: Quality Education

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Maree, K. (2024). In search of career-life meaning: Enhancing the existential experience of a gifted learner. Gifted Education International, 40(3), 398-415. https://doi.org/10.1177/02614294241254914.