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A Phenomenological Study On Career Readiness Among Graduates From College And Career Academy High Schools, Suzanne Rene Morse Oct 2020

A Phenomenological Study On Career Readiness Among Graduates From College And Career Academy High Schools, Suzanne Rene Morse

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The purpose of this phenomenological study is to understand how graduates of college and career academy (CCA) high schools perceive the influence of the non-traditional educational program on career readiness for participants in a local school district in northern Georgia. The central research question guiding the study is as follows: How do graduates perceive the lived experience of developing career readiness through their participation in the CCA model of secondary education? The theory guiding this study is the Social Cognitive Career Theory developed by Lent, Brown, and Hackett in 1994. The theory has its origins in Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory. …