De coronapandemie heeft opnieuw laten zien dat we in een onderling afhankelijke wereld leven. Wat daar gebeurt, heeft hier ook een weerslag. Er is een groeiend besef dat een kritisch en empathisch bewustzijn cruciaal is voor nationale en internationale samenwerking en vrede en dat dit meer vergt dan het ontwikkelen van culturele sensitiviteit of sociale actieplannen (Lengelle, Jardine, & Bonnar, 2018). Wereldburgerschap wordt gezien als een belangrijk thema in het hoger onderwijs en UNESCO beschouwt de sociaalemotionele ontwikkeling van studenten als fundamenteel onderdeel daarvan. Het probleem is daarbij wel: wat zijn effectieve manieren om dit leerproces op gang te brengen binnen wereldburgerschapsonderwijs?
What do a grandmaster Jedi and a grandfather have in common? The answer will become clear in this story of two sisters who used the Career Writing method to identify career questions, life themes, and tapped into the wisdom of their childhood heroes. Lengelle, R., Haggerty, E. (2022). Career Writing and the Tale of Two Sisters: The Family Project, Heroic Drive, and How No Sibling Has the Same Parents. In: Schreiber, M. (ed) Narrative Ansätze in Beratung und Coaching (pp. 163-172). Springer, Wiesbaden.
Each of us has a story that comes alive as we wake up in the morning, develops throughout the day, and holds layers of meaning as we lay our heads down at night – it might be called a narrative of our identity. When loss occurs, our story fragments into unfamiliar pieces, and who we identify as becomes scattered – sometimes even shattered. We must work to reconstruct meaning in our lives and to rebuild our identity. As leading author on this editorial, with an article of my own in this issue, I confronted this when my father died. I felt his story slipping away, becoming blurred, forgotten, and for some, erased – and the same held true for me. The chaos of my shattered identity exacerbated the deep pain of losing him and I experienced complicated grief. I had to reshape my narrative to remember the authentic parts of me and rebuild a new self in a fatherless world. This journey is in part what motivated me to become a symposium co-editor for the journal. All four of us editors of this special issue have experienced “living with loss” following the premature loss of either our father or spouse, and I wanted to see what lived experience and knowledge we could bring to the readers about loss in the fields of both guidance and counselling.
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