Career Choice With the Serious Game Like2be

Career Choice With the Serious Game Like2be

Christopher Keller, Elena Makarova, Anna K. Döring
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/IJGBL.327788
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Abstract

Choosing a career is an important biographical event for adolescents. Toward the end of compulsory education, they must decide which career path they want to pursue. The serious game like2be was developed to support adolescents in this individual career choice process. In a quasi-experimental intervention study with 809 adolescents, like2be was evaluated for its effectiveness in career choice classes at the lower secondary level. In addition, a teaching concept for the application of the serious game which included additional teaching materials was analyzed. The data show that like2be is an effective medium for broadening personal career choice horizons, especially when it is pedagogically well-founded and integrated into career choice classes. Although the effectiveness of like2be in stimulating intensive reflection on one's own vocational aptitude or a gender-sensitive attitude towards occupations is limited, the present study shows that like2be has major potential for supporting the process of career choice among adolescents.
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Theoretical Framework For Career Choice

Career choice is a significant milestone in life. Herzog et al. (2006) defined career choice as a dynamic and multifaceted process in which individuals, acting as active agents, gradually navigate and determine a career-related path. Throughout this process, they encounter various challenges and receive both societal and institutional restrictions and expectations. The theories presented in what follows examine each facet of the career choice process from a variety of perspectives; the section concludes with a synopsis.

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