Introduction to a New Section: Global Vision

Abstract

With this issue of Tlie Career Development Quarterly (CDQJ, we initiate a new section titled Vision. Furthermore, we are retiring two sections: Personal Perspectives and Reader Reactions. There are several reasons for institutionalizing such a new section in our journal and retiring the two others. The Personal Perspectives section contained analyses of personal career development experiences and short editorials about critical issues in research or practice. The Reader Reactions section is selfexplanatory. Their retirement is due to a lack of submissions and an intuitive feeling that their time is past. The new editor (beginning September 2008) may have other thoughts, but for now, these sections are part of our history. As for the new Global Vision section, although CDQ is the official journal of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) with its roots in the United States (with 5% of NCDA members from outside of the United States), CDQ has always been a journal that publishes a good number of articles from other countries. For Volume 55 (2006-2007), 8% of our articles were written by authors outside of the United States or were based on research conducted outside of the United States. For Volume 54 (2005-2006), it was 14%, and for Volume 53 (2004-2005), it was 17%. Even with the development of several other career-focused journals headquartered in such countries as Australia (Australian Journal of Career Development), Belgium (International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance), France (l'Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle), Italy (Magellano), and the United Kingdom (Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Career Development International), we continue to receive substantial numbers of manuscripts from countries outside of the United States. I am also very pleased that the first contribution to this new section is Whitmarsh and Ritter's (2007) exceptional piece on Romania (The Influence of Communism on Career Development and Education in Romania) and that the first article in this new volume of CDQ is the important contribution of our colleagues Young, Marshall, and Valach (2007; Making Career Theories More Culturally Sensitive: Implications for Counseling), in which we were able to get them to spell counseling with only one l. The internationalization of our profession has been noted in many recent articles published in CDQ and elsewhere. In a recent special issue of CDQ on the future of career counseling and development, each of the articles discussed this internationalization (Chung, 2003; Hansen, 2003; Harris-Bowlsbev, 2003; Herr, 2003; Niles, 2003; Parmer & Rush, 2003; Pope, 2003; Savickas, 2003; Tang, 2003; Whiston, 2003). …