Ida Weidner
Aarhus University, Denmark

 

Ida Weidner. Hercurrent research project is an empirical study, which will examine how students make use of guidance counseling, and investigate the possibilities open to counseling in institutions of higher education. This will be based on the assumption that meaningful counseling takes the individual student as its point of departure and draws upon the student’s everyday life and surroundings. Theoretically a narrative and poststructuralist perspective guides me with a focus on power relations and on how the individual learns how to act according to his or her values through understanding the discourses he or she is part of. She is working at Copenhagen School of Business and Design where she is doing her current research. When her data collection is finished, she will furthermore be supervising and teaching both counsellors and teachers at the school, inspired by the Narrative method by Epston and White. She is enrolled at Aarhus University in the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences as a PhD-student in Educational Psychology. Next year she will be teaching a seminar at the Master´s degree program in Psychology in Narrative Perspectives and Approaches to Guidance and Counseling.