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Article: Special section: Challenges for Career Counseling in Asia.
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Introduction
Globalization is becoming a significant trend in the social sciences. As Friedman (1999) pointed out, this trend is sweeping across the various disciplines of politics, economics, education, and psychology. No longer are we just concerned about how our students are doing in schools relative to their classmates or to those students across the county line. Our comparative framework has become global; we are now comparing our children's school performance against that of children in Japan, Singapore, or Germany.
This global perspective is also evident in the National Career Development Association (NCDA). At their recent ninth Global Conference ...