Career Education System Creation and Improvement: A Case of Lithuania
Journal Title: Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi (BAED) - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 12
Abstract
Lately, economic and demographic tendencies and technological progress are unrecognizably changing the whole working world structure. Social changes, appearing in the 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 has also been asserted and developed. Career education in the current situation is becoming a continuous process, which starts in lower secondary schools, is simultaneously carried on in educational support institutions, continued in vocational education institutions and higher schools, later moves into lifelong learning space. In this process, a person acquires career planning and its management abilities, helping him to create and realize career plans compatible with his personality peculiarities, to accumulate necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes for the realization of them, abilities to flexibly react to society and labour market changes, successfully make proper career- related decisions, acquire lifelong learning motivation. In Lithuanian context, vocational consultation, information and career education is 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 system and labour market and for their interaction. For this purpose, career education system has been created in Lithuania, which consists of legal basis, career education specialists, career education service coordination, provision, financing and observation mechanisms. The aim of this system is to help people consciously choose education and employment opportunities suitable for them, create conditions for career competence acquisition. Career education becomes an important teaching and employment policy element at all levels, a constituent policy part of active labour market.
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Dalia Augienė, Vincentas Lamanauskas
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