Dergiler / Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi / 2015 / Cilt: 6 - Sayı: 12
Career Education System Creation and Improvement: A Case of Lithuania
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- 11–36
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Özet
Lately, economic and demographic tendencies and technological progress areunrecognizably changing the whole working world structure. Social changes, appearing inthe globalization process, raise new requirements for a man in his career path. In Lithuania,in the legislation acts on education since 2011, a modern career education understanding hasalso been asserted and developed. Career education in the current situation is becoming acontinuous process, which starts in lower secondary schools, is simultaneously carried on ineducational support institutions, continued in vocational education institutions and higherschools, later moves into lifelong learning space. In this process, a person acquires careerplanning and its management abilities, helping him to create and realize career planscompatible with his personality peculiarities, to accumulate necessary knowledge, skills andattitudes for the realization of them, abilities to flexibly react to society and labour marketchanges, successfully make proper career- related decisions, acquire lifelong learningmotivation. In Lithuanian context, vocational consultation, information and career educationis considered to be one of the most important factors, encouraging employment, working force adaptation to market conditions, entrepreneurship and equal possibilities. Therefore,effectively provided career education services become important both for education systemand labour market and for their interaction. For this purpose, career education system hasbeen created in Lithuania, which consists of legal basis, career education specialists, careereducation service coordination, provision, financing and observation mechanisms. The aimof this system is to help people consciously choose education and employment opportunitiessuitable for them, create conditions for career competence acquisition. Career educationbecomes an important teaching and employment policy element at all levels, a constituentpolicy part of active labour market.
Abstract
Lately, economic and demographic tendencies and technological progress areunrecognizably changing the whole working world structure. Social changes, appearing inthe globalization process, raise new requirements for a man in his career path. In Lithuania,in the legislation acts on education since 2011, a modern career education understanding hasalso been asserted and developed. Career education in the current situation is becoming acontinuous process, which starts in lower secondary schools, is simultaneously carried on ineducational support institutions, continued in vocational education institutions and higherschools, later moves into lifelong learning space. In this process, a person acquires careerplanning and its management abilities, helping him to create and realize career planscompatible with his personality peculiarities, to accumulate necessary knowledge, skills andattitudes for the realization of them, abilities to flexibly react to society and labour marketchanges, successfully make proper career- related decisions, acquire lifelong learningmotivation. In Lithuanian context, vocational consultation, information and career educationis considered to be one of the most important factors, encouraging employment, working force adaptation to market conditions, entrepreneurship and equal possibilities. Therefore,effectively provided career education services become important both for education systemand labour market and for their interaction. For this purpose, career education system hasbeen created in Lithuania, which consists of legal basis, career education specialists, careereducation service coordination, provision, financing and observation mechanisms. The aimof this system is to help people consciously choose education and employment opportunitiessuitable for them, create conditions for career competence acquisition. Career educationbecomes an important teaching and employment policy element at all levels, a constituentpolicy part of active labour market.