Three-scene storyboarding: How narrative enlarges careers-work

Abstract

This article examines the uses of narrative in careers work. It illustrates story-telling with three-scene storyboarding – a method for linking remembered experience to useful reflection as a basis for action. It is introduced here to probe the uses of narrative in careers work – the possibilities and the problems. Narrative thinking draws on a range of perspectives. The article examines philosophical issues and their practical implications. It shows how literary theory gives us a useful distinction between a case-study and a narrative. It probes how narrative is rooted in the way neurological states link to cultural experience. All help us to understand how a story can find meaning in experience and purpose in response.