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Futures for Career Education and Guidance in the Mediterranean?

Implications, Challenges, and Prospects

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Book cover Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean

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This chapter reflects on the fund of regional and international knowledge about career guidance that this volume has contributed to. It highlights the opportunities for learning that can result from such comparative study, not only for those inhabiting the contexts that have been the object of analysis, but also for career guidance and development specialists further afield.

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Sultana, R.G. (2017). Futures for Career Education and Guidance in the Mediterranean?. In: Sultana, R.G. (eds) Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean. EMCER. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-992-8_26

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