Proposed Framework of Competences for Career Counsellors Employed at Primary Schools

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-269
Author(s):  
Nina Krmac ◽  
Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Career Counsellor ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Competence Framework

During the last decade, research and introduction of career guidance has been becoming an increasingly important need of contemporary society. This is highlighted by a number of documents at EU level that emphasize the development of counselling and establishment of career guidance with the aim of developing lifelong learning and of development of career counselling services in various institutions, especially in schools. The chapter is thus based on the formation of a competence framework for career counsellors employed at basic schools. The authors notice in the area of career guidance the surveyees put the competences in the forefront that refer to counsellor's interpersonal intelligence and the knowledge of enrolment procedures and of secondary school programs. Pedagogues have proved to be the occupational group the most competent to perform the job of a career counsellor. In the conclusion, the chapter presents a model of competence framework with six areas of knowledge, the competences following each other arranged by relevance.

scholarly journals OUTPLACEMENT MODEL FOR EMPLOYEES CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Baiba Rokjane ◽  
Vija Dislere
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Expert Evaluation ◽  
Career Counsellor ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Expert Assessments

This article addresses the problem of providing career guidance to professionals who are expected to be made redundant. The aim of this thesis is to develop and to do expert-evaluation of the Outplacement Model for Employees Career Promotion (hereinafter referred to as “Model”). The study was developed in the Latvia University of Agriculture, the Institute of Education and Home Economics within the Master study programme Career Counsellor. An expert evaluation of the Model was carried out with the participation of 5 experts in the field of career counselling and personnel management. In general, expert assessments of the overall Model rating (7-9 points) are close to the maximum possible rating (10 points). The provision of Outplacement services in Latvia has a wide range of benefits to the employee, employer and society as a whole. The developed Model will help employees to become more aware of their abilities and return to the labour market soon, after leaving their previous job. The Model can be used by career guidance providers for organizations and employers, career counsellors, and companies providing outplacement services.

Career counselling development

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 327-333
Author(s):  
Aikaterini Papakota
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Career Information ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Human Resources Managers ◽  
Counselling Process

Promoting the use of new technologies in the career counselling process, the Career Services Office of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has developed an easy-to-use career counselling guide containing multimedia applications. The purpose of this career guide, called ‘Career Counseling@Career Office of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’, is to support students and graduates in the development of their professional skills using interactive exercises and self-presentation sample tools. It also contains, in written and/or visual form, career information, success stories of fellow students and graduates and videos with advice and tips from human resources managers, recruiters and academic staff. The sections of the electronic guide are organized as ‘stations’ that may help the student or graduate in career decision-making, planning and organizing job searches in Greece and abroad, identifying training opportunities and achieving career goals in general. This innovative application is used in combination with personal and group career counselling services. This article explains the rationale for the application in terms of its usage and the expanded functionality it offers career counsellors in higher education institutions.

scholarly journals An Investigation of the Relationship between Counselling Services and Adjustment of School-aged Children–in-Transition in Junior Secondary Schools in Ogun State, Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ojo Yetunde Abiola ◽  
Ogunmilugba Bamidele Joke
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Junior Secondary Schools ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Ogun State ◽  
School Counsellors ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Effective Delivery

The crux of this study is to examine the role of counselling services in fostering adjustment of school-aged children-in-transition in junior secondary schools in Ogun state, Nigeria. Using simple random and purposive sampling technique, three hundred samples (males= 133 and females=167) of school-aged children with mean age 10.96 participated in the study. Respondents filled two standardized instruments which are School Counselling Services Scale (SCSS) and Student Adjustment Scale (SAS). Data were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation and t-test at 0.05 level of significance. Result revealed that counselling services was perceived to be an effective tool in fostering adjustment of school-aged children–in-transition in junior secondary schools. Consequent upon this, government, policy makers as well as school counsellors should ensure the efficient and effective delivery of counselling services in secondary schools for new students transitioning from primary schools to junior secondary schools.

scholarly journals Intergenerational and Marriage Mobility of University Professors in the Netherlands During the 19th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
Ineke Maas ◽  
Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen ◽  
Antonie Knigge
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Civil Marriage ◽  
Cultural Capital Theory ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Do So

In this study we ask the question to what extent 19th-century university professors were a closed occupational group in the sense that they had little intergenerational and marriage mobility. We do so in honor of Kees Mandemakers, who is about to retire as a professor, but whose younger family members may follow in his footsteps. We derive competing hypotheses from cultural capital theory and the meritocracy thesis and test them using civil marriage records for the period 1813–1922 in six Dutch provinces (N = 1,180,976 marriages). Although only 4.4% of all university professors had a father in the same occupation, the odds ratio of 331 shows that this is much more likely than to be expected under independence. Similarly, professors were much more likely to marry the daughter of a professor. Compared to other elite occupations the intergenerational immobility of professors was not especially high, but their marriage immobility was exceptional. Cultural capital theory receives more support than the meritocracy thesis. We hope that Mandemakers, Mandemakers and Mandemakers will accept the challenge and investigate whether these findings can be generalized to contemporary society.

scholarly journals Using a Transformative Paradigm Research Approach to Investigate Guidance and Counselling Service in Papua New Guinea Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kainaro Kravia ◽  
Paul Pagliano
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Counselling Service ◽  
Counselling Services

Since the introduction of school guidance and counseling services in Papua New Guinea (PNG) schools in the 1970s little has changed. A limited number of Guidance Officers (GOs) each look after a large number of secondary schools. Consequently they only have time to administer a bank of Australian Council for Education Research (ACER) aptitude tests to grade 11 students and provide limited career guidance to year 12 students. This means that more than one million school aged children in PNG miss out on adequate guidance and counselling services, with any support they do receive being provided by untrained school personnel. This comparative study using a transformative paradigm research approach will explore guidance and counselling service in PNG and Australia with a particular focus on services available to schools in Goroka (PNG) and in Townsville (Queensland, Australia). Townsville has been identified as an ideal location because of Australia’s political history and its legacies in many systems of government (including the education system), economic practices and social life in PNG. Another factor is the researcher’s location as a post graduate student at the James Cook University in Townsville. The study will utilise a mixed methods comprising of autoethnography, survey, and interview. Through autoethnography the researcher intends to investigate his own experiences working in guidance and counselling services in PNG. Next is the use of a survey questionnaire to gauge care-givers’ views about the scope and type of services currently provided in PNG and in Queensland schools. Finally, several pertinent individuals in PNG and the State of Queensland will be interviewed about guidance and counselling services in the respective countries with a view to exploring how services will need to change to better meet anticipated future requirements. The information is then distilled to make recommendations as to how guidance and counseling services in PNG schools might be transformed.

scholarly journals Careers Guidance and Transitions to Further Education in Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Huxley ◽  
Rhys Davies ◽  
Suhaer Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Combining Information

There is a general agreement that receiving appropriate and timely careers guidance enhances the likelihood of an individual’s participation in post-compulsory education. However, little is understood about how careers guidance influences the choices of learners. This paper explores the educational journey of learners’ who enrol within the Further Education sector in Wales, analysing whether the receipt of careers guidance is in anyway associated with these outcomes. This study utilises the linked database of school and pupil records, combining information from the Welsh National Pupil Database (NPD) with individual learner records from the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) for young people who are registered at post-compulsory education providers, combined with anonymised client information held by Careers Wales. Data for two cohorts of Year 11 pupils (2012/13 and 2013/14) who subsequently enrolled in courses within the FE sector during the following academic year is analysed. Multivariate analysis reveals that, as expected, there is a strong link between GCSE attainment and learning aims at FE. However, the analysis also suggests that receipt of careers guidance may encourage learners to make choices at FE that are more commensurate with their abilities. Those with higher levels of attainment are also more likely to enrol on higher level learning programmes if they have also been in receipt of careers guidance. Likewise, those with low levels of attainment at GCSE are more likely to enrol on learning programmes with lower qualification aims if they have been in receipt of careers guidance. Receiving careers guidance through interviews increased the likelihood of registering on WBL programmes. Furthermore, learners on WBL programmes who have received careers guidance are less likely to withdraw from their courses early. The study offers important insights as to the role of career guidance in supporting young people in their transitions to post-compulsory education.

scholarly journals The Child-Friendly School Program for Developing a Character School in the Primary Schools of Binjai City, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-582
Author(s):  
Indra Prasetia ◽  
Emilda Sulasmi ◽  
Susana Susana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
School Culture ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Study Child ◽  
Child Friendly

This research is a qualitative research in the form of a case study. This research is conducted at Binjai State Elementary School, Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to implement a child-friendly school program and develop student character programmed in the Primary Schools of Binjai Ciy, Indonesia. The respondents of this study are principals and teachers. The results of this study are child-friendly school policies at Primary Schools of Binjai City encourage all school residents to care about the school environment and be anti-violent so that the atmosphere at school becomes healthy, safe and comfortable. The formation of the character of students through child-friendly schools Primary Schools of Binjai City is going well because the teachers at the school have formed the character of students including students who are diligent and diligent in learning, respect for teachers, discipline, respect each other so as to form a community friendly study. Child-friendly school programs are very effective in forming a safe and conducive school environment and supporting the development of student character, in addition to encouraging schools to develop infrastructure to support learning. The study also found that some schools still have obstacles in developing a school culture for the direction of child-friendly schools. In general, Primary Schools of Binjai City has implemented child-friendly education, where the school has attempted various programs and activities in implementing child-friendly education.

The role of the Market in Career Counselling Delivery

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G. Watts ◽  
Tony Watts
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
New Right ◽  
Market Maker ◽  
Guidance Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Training

This article explores the roles of public policy in career guidance delivery. Traditionally, most career guidance services have been structured towards the provision of social welfare to the public sector. The New Right critique of this has led to attempts to apply market principles to guidance delivery. This can take the form of a market or quasi-market in guidance. However, guidance can also be viewed as a market-maker: a means of making the labour market and education and training markets work more effectively. Some experiments in applying these principles in the UK and elsewhere are analysed.

ETHICAL DIMENSION IN THE PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SCHOOL CAREER COUNSELLORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Burceva
Keyword(s):  
Career Decisions ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Career Counsellor ◽  
School Career ◽  
Data Statistics ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
Relationship Of

Career counselling at school is a new field of professional performance in Latvia. The aim of article is to analyze the relationship of ethical aspects with the professional activity of school career counsellor. The research methods are following: study and analysis of theoretical literature, compilation of statistical data. Statistics show that more and more school career counsellors acquire additional education to provide individual advice and support to pupils. A school career counsellor cares about a safe environment where a pupil can explore his or her needs and abilities, analyze life events that affect career-path choices. A pupil can expand his or her notions, make important career decisions. It is therefore important to update the ethical principles of school career counseller’s professional performance. Solving of ethical problems is one of the components of the school career counseller professional performance. Mutual trust, fairness, tolerance, good communication is important for the success of cooperation with the students.

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