Discussion Topics for the Classroom-Career Exploration

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

Previously published as D. E. Super's Career Development Variables: Socio-Emotional Discussion Groups (McNaughton Centre [Quesnel, BC], 2008).

Introduction

In this socio-emotional program, discussion topics focus on 21 career variables that affect students' opportunities and choices with respect to career paths.

Resources for discussions:

1. Students' opinions and experiences; 2. Teacher's knowledge of D. E. Super's career variables; and 3. This textbook: Zunker, V. G. (1998). Career counseling: Applied concepts of life planning (5th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

For each of 21 weeks, students construct a single class web that they daily add information to, based on the discussion topic (career variable) of the week.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.