Career education open access journals

Continuing our series on getting access to peer-reviewed journals when we are outside a university subscription system (read more here), this time we consider a few journals helpful to those of us who specialise in the career education field: which includes secondary and tertiary education; the organisations and channels which deliver that career education; the way in which education and training is delivered; and the effectiveness of that education.

• Vocations and Learning (here) is an open access peer-reviewed journal publishing in the vocational and professional learning area; including where learning occurs (i.e. colleges, schools, universities, and workplaces), both international and domestic.
• Then there is the International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, or IJRVET, here. Based in Hamburg, this open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal researches vocational and technical topics such as apprenticeships and cadetships. It aims for a global exchange of knowledge so encourages a broad submission of scientifically sound research papers.
• The Journal of Research in Technical Careers (here) is hosted by the University of Nevada, in the US. Articles are open access, and focus on the tertitary career and post-secondary technical education fields, aligned to the US National Career Clusters Framework.
• The Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance (here) is a fully open access journal focusing broadly on career transitions and guidance in institutional, social and policy contexts. It seeks to publish research on the practice and ethics of career guidance across the lifespan including pedagogy, sociology, psychology and political science, but also ethnology, history and anthropology, largely in the Nordic countries.
• The International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, or IJWIL (here; formerly the Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education), publishes open-access, peer-reviewed original research on Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), largely in the South Pacific. WIL brings together the student, the educator, and an industry organisation so students learn by doing. Students undertake "purposeful work tasks, [to combine] theory with meaningful practice that is relevant to the students' discipline of study and/or professional development" (Zegwaard et al., 2023, p. 38)
• The Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability is an open access journal from Deakin University, here, which has been running since 2010. It puts out a couple of issues each year, focused on SoTL research - the scholarship of teaching and learning - to help graduates into better graduate roles.

To find new open access journals as time goes by, use the search link here for career education.

Sam

References:

CDANZ. (2019). Competency Framework. Career Development Association of New Zealand. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tudpuDOP8vc9tG5cE_HjSn2DiRp7xBTM/view

Zegwaard, K. E., Pretti, T. J., Rowe, A. D., & Ferns, S. J. (2023). Chapter 3: Defining work-integrated learning. In K. E. Zegwaard, T. J. Pretti (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Work-integrated Learning (3rd ed., pp. 29-48). Routledge.