6.5. “Making Up” Viable Future Selves Through Evaluation – Working with the Portfolio-Tool

This qualitative phenomenological study examined the occupational downgrading experiences of six adult immigrants. Occupational downgrading happens when an individual’s occupation post immigration does not match his or her education credentials and previous professional experiences. The goal is to make sense of the participants’ narratives through the lens of possible selves theory. Therefore, the research questions guiding this study were (1) How do occupational downgrading experiences of immigrants shape their integration to the U.S. workforce? and (2) How can we make sense of the participants’ narratives through the lens of possible selves theory? Phenomenological interviews served as the main source for data collection. In addition, artifacts allowed the participants to enrich their stories. Themes that emerged from the participants’ occupational downgrading experiences include underemployment, shift in status, language barrier, feeling of discrimination, and lack of inspiration at the new job. Looking at past, present, and future selves, the participants’ narratives were examined first through identity transition processes: separation, transition, and reincorporation. The study adds to a developing body of literature focusing on the possible selves of adult immigrants experiencing occupational downgrading. In particular, they inform who is participating in adult education. Likewise, this study centralizes the immigrant as participant to adult learning; it provides new narratives of adults in transition.

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Caring for our future selves

The American Journal of Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.07.035 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 117 (7) ◽

pp. 537-540 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mark E. Williams ◽

Jonathan Evans

Keyword(s):

Future Selves

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Book Reviews : Our Future Selves: care of the elderly, by Nesta Roberts. 159 pp. GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN LTD. London, 1970. £1.50

Royal Society of Health Journal ◽

10.1177/146642407109100523 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 91 (5) ◽

pp. 260-260

Keyword(s):

The Elderly ◽

Future Selves

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‘I Am Doing a Double Thing. It Is For Me and It Is For Her’

Young ◽

10.1177/1103308817715144 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 332-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erwin Dimitri Selimos

Keyword(s):

General Situation ◽

New Host ◽

Refugee Youth ◽

Transitions To Adulthood ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Making Sense ◽

Migration Narratives ◽

Future Selves ◽

Intergenerational Links ◽

Immigrant And Refugee

This article draws on 30 interviews conducted with newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in Canada to explore how they make sense of their migration and the consequences these meanings have on how they imagine their future selves. The article is based on the understanding that a key task of any immigrant is to negotiate the experiences of continuity and change indicative of the migration experience—a task that takes on unique contours for young immigrants who are simultaneously negotiating their transitions to adulthood. Analysis of the migration narratives of newcomer youth demonstrates that in making sense of their migration, young migrants draw on the general situation of their country of descent, their experiences of emigration and poignant intergenerational links to construct meaning of their lives in their new country of residence. These meanings orient their social actions and animate their life projects in their new host society.

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Modulation of medial prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices when thinking about past, present, and future selves

Social Neuroscience ◽

10.1080/17470910903233562 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 187-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

Arnaud D'Argembeau ◽

David Stawarczyk ◽

Steve Majerus ◽

Fabienne Collette ◽

Martial Van der Linden ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Future Selves ◽

Parietal Cortices

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“(Not) forever talk”: restaurant employees managing occupational stigma consciousness

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal ◽

10.1108/qrom-12-2016-1464 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 384-402 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Amanda Michiko Shigihara

Keyword(s):

Food Service ◽

Identity Work ◽

Stigma Consciousness ◽

Content Type ◽

Theoretical Contribution ◽

Work Related ◽

Future Selves ◽

Restaurant Employees ◽

Research Findings ◽

Depth Interviews

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine restaurant employees’ engagement in identity work to manage occupational stigma consciousness.Design/methodology/approachResearch methods included ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews.FindingsWidespread societal stigma attached to food service work disturbed participants’ sense of coherence. Therefore, they undertook harmonizing their present and envisioned selves with “forever talk,” a form of identity work whereby people discursively construct desired, favorable and positive identities and self-concepts by discussing what they view themselves engaged and not engaged in forever. Participants employed three forever talk strategies: conceptualizing work durations, framing legitimate careers and managing feelings about employment. Consequently, their talk simultaneously resisted and reproduced restaurant work stigmatization. Findings elucidated occupational stigma consciousness, ambivalence about jobs considered “bad,” “dirty” and “not real,” discursive tools for negotiating laudable identities, and costs of equivocal work appraisals.Originality/valueThis study provides a valuable conceptual and theoretical contribution by developing a more comprehensive understanding of occupational stigma consciousness. Moreover, an identity work framework helps explain how and why people shape identities congruent with and supportive of self-concepts. Forever talk operates as a temporal “protect and preserve” reconciliation tool whereby people are able to construct positive self-concepts while holding marginalized, stereotyped and stigmatized jobs. This paper offers a unique empirical case of the ways in which people talk about possible future selves when their employment runs counter to professions normatively evaluated as esteemed and lifelong. Notably, research findings are germane for analyzing any identities (work and non-work related) that pose incoherence between extant and desired selves.

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A Discriminative Ontology for Future Selves

Filosofiya-Philosophy ◽

10.53656/phil2021-04-04 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 372-381

Author(s):

Juraj Odorčák ◽

Keyword(s):

Second Order ◽

Practical Advantage ◽

Future Selves ◽

The Future ◽

Future Self ◽

The Right ◽

Practical Feasibility

The article presents a critique of the commonly held assumption about the practical advantage of endurantism over perdurantism regarding the problem of future-directed self-concern of a person. The future-directed self-concern of a person crucially depends on the possibility of the right differentiation of diverging futures of distinct persons, therefore any theory of persistence that does not entail a special nonbranching relation of a person to only their future self seems to be counterintuitive or unrealistic for practical purposes of personal persistence. I argue that this pragmatic rationale about future-directed self-concern is equally challenging for both theories of persistence. Moreover, I indicate, that both of these theories fall and stand on the practical feasibility of hidden ontological presuppositions about specific second-order notions of concerns of persons for their future.

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Letters to our Future Selves? High-Powered Replication Attempts Question Effects on Future Orientation, Delinquent Decisions, and Risky Investments

Social Cognition ◽

10.1521/soco.2020.38.6.521 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (6) ◽

pp. 521-554

Author(s):

Laura Quinten ◽

Anja Murmann ◽

Hanna A. Genau ◽

Rafaela Warkentin ◽

Rainer Banse

Keyword(s):

Problem Behavior ◽

Teacher Identity Development of Non-Education-Degree Individuals

Examining the Teacher Induction Process in Contemporary Education Systems - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5228-4.ch012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 287-312

Author(s):

Tran Le Huu Nghia ◽

Kien Trung Le

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Teacher Identity ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

Teacher Education Programs ◽

Professional Identities ◽

Education Programs ◽

Teacher Identities ◽

Teaching Competence ◽

Future Selves ◽

Education Degree

This chapter reports on the analysis of the narratives of two non-education-degree teachers to highlight the process of their teacher identity development. The analysis showed that their teacher identities were initially developed during their childhood, but then overshadowed by aspirations to have other professional identities; therefore, they did not enroll in teacher education programs. Upon graduation, they entered the teaching profession either accidentally or deliberately. Their teacher identities were shaped via active participation in teaching and professional development activities, and their ability to negotiate between their teaching competence and the practice required in the school. After their teacher identities were established, often by receiving a teaching qualification, they continued to develop their teacher identities by imagining and negotiating their teaching practices with their future selves. Generally, their teacher identity development involved a complex interaction of personal and contextual factors as well as much effort and resilience.

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