Contribution
Description: The topic of the paper is "Teachers' Role in the Process of Training Career Choice and Decision Making Skills: Development of Pupils' Transferable Competencies".The interpretation of contemporary' transferable competence' involving such competencies as communicative, information management, research competence has became one of the most highlighted scientific issues in the present day educational society and especially in the development of life path choice and decision making skills. The constant changes in labour market influencing roles of human life lay a special stress on the quality of personal career decision making. The Lithuanian Vocational Counselling Strategy (2003) highlights the necessity of establishing vocational counselling services at general education schools and foresees the need to start integrate career education into curriculum.The integration of career education should expand the repertoire of the present day teaching roles with career adviser (counsellor) role. Thus, the main aim of this research paper is: while stressing the teachers' as career adviser (counsellor) role to reveal the teachers' attitudes towards training career choice and decision making skills.The research objectives of the paper are:· To clarify the interrelation of career decision-making skills and the transferable competencies developed in the lower and upper secondary school curriculum;· To define teacher's as a career adviser role's expression possibilities;· To investigate teachers attitudes towards the development of pupils career decision making skills.The conceptual framework for the research is:· DfES definition which differentiates career guidance into four concepts: information, advice, guidance and personal support.· Professional standard of career counsellor (project, 2004), which points out competencies of seven performance areas: personal and professional development, information, counselling, teaching, research, social cooperation evaluation.Key words: transferable competencies, career decision making, career guidance, teachers' role as career adviser (counsellor).
Methodology: Research methods: content analysis of scientific literature and documents. Questionnaire survey is performed in order to manifest teachers' attitudes on their experience of career guidance, advice or personal support. The study involves teachers from Lithuanian secondary schools.
Conclusions: Hypothesis that "the teachers' positive attitude towards the integration of the development of career decision making skills clears out new teachers' role such as career consultant" is supported by the scientific literature analysis and the inquiry results interpretation of Lithuanian teachers. Half of the respondents expressed positive attitude towards the development of pupils' career decision making skills. Teachers stated that they perform career adviser (counsellor).role. Still less than one quarter of Lithuanian pupils has possibilities to train their career decision-making skills or get career guidance.
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