Constructivist approach to dialogical career counselling in vocational secondary schools
2013
Soika, I., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Inst. of Education and Home Economics
Constructivism and its dynamic nature from alternative approach in many parts of the world now become the traditional approach for individual career development and counselling, emphasizing his unique learning experience that is based on self-organizational activities for his goals of future life setting and achieving. As reveals studies of foreign scientists V.Peavy, M.Savickas, L.Nota in the U.S., W.Patton, M.McMahon in Australia, M.Kuijpers, F.Meijers in the Netherlands a constructivist approach to career counselling is beneficial, especially for social risk group of young people, which accounting for more than one-tenth of active employment of society. In order to young people including vocational secondary schools’ students successfully develop their careers and obtain career management skills, it is necessary a support of systematic career development in different ways on competence-based and dialogue-oriented learning environments: exploring and developing themselves, exploring education and work opportunities as well as planning their career in a chosen profession. Therefore aim of the study: theoretically evaluated and justified a constructivist approach to the dialogical career counselling in vocational secondary schools. Objectives: 1) to determine the nature of constructivist approaches to career counselling; 2) to analyse relationship between the constructivist approach and dialogical career counselling in the career development; 3) to evaluate opportunities and action of constructivist approach in dialogical career counselling in vocational secondary schools.
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