Guidance model for promoting self-directed career decision-making by secondary school students
2018
Briska, L., Aizkraukle Regional Secondary School (Latvia) | Dislere, V., Latvia Univ. of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava (Latvia)
The present research focuses on a problem for secondary school students – their inability to make crucial decisions on their future profession as well as to understand themselves, their interests, abilities and needs. Many secondary school graduates do not know what profession to choose. The aim of the research is to develop a guidance model for promoting self-directed career decision-making by secondary school students as well as to approbate the model and perform an expert evaluation of the model. The approbation of the model was done at two secondary schools in Latvia’s regions. Thirty-two school pupils were involved, of which 16 were students from grade 12 from each school. Individuals investigate own interests, abilities and talents, sets learning and career goals, plans own work and does reflection on their own initiative in self-directed learning. During this process, students build up their abilities and their need to self-guide increases; their personality grows, and the students become more active and assume a greater responsibility for their decisions related to their learning and careers. The students, involved in the experimental approbation of the guidance model for promoting self-directed career decision-making, acquired a new knowledge, identified their abilities, interests and values, became self-confident and got a clear vision of their goals; their internal motivation to make a responsible and thought-out career decision increased. The guidance model is intended for career counsellors, pedagogues-career counsellors and class teachers working with secondary school students.
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