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VOCATIONAL TRAINING: RESEARCH AND REALITIES
2003 No.7 Abstracts |
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RESEARCH ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAND TRAINING
BERUFSBILDUNGFORSCHUNG UND REALITÄT
Danguole Beresneviciene
Educational and Psychological Foundations of Vocational Guidance in the Republic
of Lithuania
Summary
The article analyses educational and psychological foundations of vocational
guidance in Lithuania. The results of the research show the period of 1918-1940
in the Lithuanian Republic witnessed the start of vocational orientation development
on scientific grounds. Lithuanian Psychotechnical and vocational orientation
society was founded that performed personnel selection, vocational suitability
and vocational counselling questions and implemented this research into practice.
Scientific discoveries of that time have not lost credibility and importance
nowadays - under the conditions of rapidly changing labour market. In the
period of 1940-1990, vocational orientation and counselling system was created
in the whole country, oriented to the political order, planned economy and
less concerned with learner needs and scientific theories of that time. Nowadays,
the theory of vocational guidance, developed by L. Jovaisa, S. Kregzde
and their students is further developed at Vytautas Magnus University under
the supervision of R. Lauzackas, K. Pukelis and their colleagues, is
being popularised and implemented in Lithuania and in foreign countries.
Key-words
Vocation, vacational counselling, decision making, choosing a vocation.
Kestutis Pukelis, Daiva Garniene
Schoolchildren Career Education: Situation Analysis and Perspectives at a General Education School
Summary
Services of vocational information and counselling are important for education
system and labour market aiming at improvement of their mutual interaction.
They are recognized as the most important element of lifelong learning strategy;
besides, it is one of the priorities of the European Commission Memorandum
of Lifelong Learning. In many countries of the world, vocational counselling
services are introduced at a pre-school school level. Vocational counselling
is especially important in the school years as schoolchildren in basic, general
schools and gymnasiums, particularly, have to choose the profile of education,
direction and relate their options to their future occupation. However, the
results of the research described here indicate absence of opportunities created
at schools for proper learner support in preparing them for their professional
career.
Key-words
Choice of vocation, career designing, career education, vocational counselling,
career counselling.
Helmut Zelloth, Dragana Gligorijevic, Ronald G. Sultana
Career Guidance Policies in Acceding and Candidate Countries
Summary
The authors of the article analyse the policy background of the increased
attention to career information, guidance and counselling in recent years
and present the main findings of an ETF Review on Career Guidance Policies
in 11 Acceding and Candidate Countries published in October 2003.
Key-words
Career information, guidance and counselling, career guidance policies, lifelong
guidance, acceding and candidate countries (ACCs).
Tomas Jovaisa, Ramute Oreniene
Vocational Counselling in the Context of Human Resource Development
Summary
A new outlook on vocational counselling as a permanent, lifelong process encourages
the search for new opportunities in the whole contemporary system of vocational
counselling. Labour market training institutions in Lithuania have been providing
services of vocational guidance and counselling for more than ten years inviting
people to study, helping to make information based, realistic decisions for
vocational growth, developing core work and social skills. The article presents
Lithuanian labour market training institution experience acquired in the process
of providing services to different target groups irrespective of their age,
education, work experience or social situation and striving to ensure optimal
skills, needs and interests development, adapting to present learning and
employment opportunities.
Key-words
Vocational information, vocational orientation, vocational counselling, lifelong
learning, career planning, core work and social skills, professional and psychological
rehabilitation, integration to the labour market.
Kristina Juraite, Rimantas Lauzackas, Kestutis Pukelis
Learner Mobility: Further Learning Intentions and Factors
Summary
The article presents a learner mobility issue in various general education
and vocational education institutions. On the basis of the research results
on learner intentions about further learning, the 8th and 10th form learners
often stay at the same school to continue their learning and only one third
intend to further learn in another educational institution. The type of school
and town/region where learners currently learn determine the learner choice
for further learning and choice of type of school. Learner mobility is also
influenced by learner parent educational background and information resources
about schools.
Key-words
Intentions of learner further learning, learner mobility, mobility enhancing
factors.
Personal Career Management Skills and Guidelines for Their Education
Summary
The article investigates the problem of personal career management concept
and the development of personality able to manage one's career. Modern social,
economic and educational assumptions underlying the relevance of personal
career management skills for every individual are analysed. The changes in
organizational and personal career models and, consequently, changes in the
formation of the need to develop personal career management skills are revealed;
the concept of personal career management skills is defined. The most general
guidelines for personal career management skill development are presented.
Key-words
Career, personal career, management, skills career education, institution
of vocational education and training.
Design and Development of Personal Career in the Context of Globalization
Summary
The article analyses the peculiarities of personal career design and development
in the context of globalisation. It discusses the concept of personal career
and its importance for person's life, reveals the necessity to become part
of your career in the process of career design, defines some parameters of
personal career development context and presents a strategy for personal career
research.
Key-words
Personal career, personal career design, context of personal career development,
self-knowledge and knowledge about environment, personal career evaluation.
Jolanta Reingardiene, Arnas Zdanevicius
Learner value orientations and preparation for career
Summary
School provides certain knowledge and develops skills. School and the whole
learning environment, where this knowledge transmission and skill development
process happens, also develop certain values. This article analyses learner
value orientations, mostly related to learner nearest plans, career and importance
of education. In other words, analysing learner attitude to the above mentioned
issues we can make assumptions about learner career designing and career plans,
motivation and choice to further seek for knowledge or join the ranks of labour
force. Besides, the presented empirical research data to a certain extent
show if learners leave school already prepared for their career and if they
have sufficient knowledge significant in pursuit of career and integration
into the labour market. It is also important to discuss learner social and
demographic characteristics and other social factors that develop learner
attitude to career and their value orientations.
Key-words
Value orientations, career education, preparation for career, career concept.
Asta Valackiene
Professional Career Determinants: Subjective Evaluation
Summary
This paper analyzes interaction between social processes in labor market.
Take to identify, how feel a person in the society of economic transformations
with reference social tensions and subjective evaluation of status (perception)
and attitude in Lithuania.
This paper present results of doctoral work research "Professional career
of women of different generations: evolution of status and attitude in Lithuania".
With this research author seeks to identify the relationship between social
networks and personal self-realization. Take to identify, what are factors
determinant women professional career.
Key-words
Professional career, self - realization, objective and subjective obstacles,
social tensions, stress, subjective evaluation of status (perception) and
attitude.
Toma Lileikiene, Raimonda Petkeviciute
Adult Learner Viewpoint to Career Education
Summary
This article highlights the conformity of the plans for the secondary education
acquisition and career education for the adult learner studying at the training
centre. The factors related to the youth attitude towards the career education
and the environmental changes are analysed in the article. In addition, the
analysis of the significance of a person's career from the philosophical and
psychological points of view is defined. Finally, the conclusions about the
importance of adult education and training centres in the process of the learner
career planning are presented at the end of the article.
Key-words
Adaptation, personal competence, youth, career, competence, qualification,
motivation, continual teaching, self-expression, social capacity, socialisation,
social environment, perfection, and career planning.
