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CAREER COUNSELING RESEARCHES
AND EXPERIENCE OF CAREER
COUNSELORS’ TRAINING AT
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY
Lijana Navickienė
Vytautas Magnus university
Centre for Vocational Education and Research
12 November 2007, Kaunas
Researches on career
counseling
• Dissertations;
• Master thesis;
• Scientific articles (journal Vocational
Education. Research and Reality);
• National and international projects.
Researches within projects
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Leonardo da Vinci programme project Meeting the Needs of
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Leonardo da Vinci programme project Overcoming Intercultural
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European structural fund project Development and
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European structural fund project Development and implementation
Employment: European Curriculum Guidelines for Lifelong Vocational
Counsellors in the line with the Challenges of EU Enlargement
and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and
Counselling
Implementation of the Master Study Programme "Career Counseling"
of career counseling system
European structural fund project Development of open information
and counseling system (AIKOS)
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Problems of career counsellors’
training in Lithuania
• There is no consecutive system for career
counsellors’ training and professional development
• Lack of attention to the training and professional
development of career counseling practitioners
• Preparation level to work as counsellors is fairly low
• Career counsellors usually enter counselling
practice without any particular preparation
• Career counselors are those retrained people who
have finished different courses or seminars and
acquired formally unrecognized competencies of
career counselor during their practice
Problems of career counsellors’
training in Lithuania
Educational background of career counsellors
in Lithuania
• Social studies - 42 % (economics - 33 %,
educology - 21 %,management - 18 %,
sociology – 12 %, psichology – 9 %)
• Tehnical studies - 36 % (mechanics,
building, engineering)
• Humanitarian degrees – 10 % (filology)
• Physical studies - 8% (physics, mathematic,
geography)
• Natural studies - 4 % (biology, agronomy,
ecology, environmental science)
Initiatives for solving career
counsellors’ training and
professional development issues
• Continuous inconsecutive modular
programmes
• Professional standard for career counsellors
defining the main areas of activity, functions and
competencies of counselling specialists, as a basis
for planning, organizing and evaluating the content
of specialists initial and further training
• Career counsellors training standard defining
the main parameters of counsellors training
(entrance requirements, studies duration, form,
objectives , content of the studies, strategies for
evaluation of students achievements, ect.)
• Master study programme Career designing
Experience of career counselors’
training and professional development
at Vytautas Magnus University
Continuous inconsecutive studies
Module based learning
Module – 2 credits (3 ECTS), 80 hours
Target
groups:
educators
of
vocational
institutions and secondary schools, labour market
specialists, labour exchange counsellors and
personnel managers.
Continuous inconsecutive studies
Modular programmes for career counselors,
mediators and business counselors (since 2002):
• Career designing methodology
• Introduction into psychological counseling
• Methods of individual’s cognition
• Methods of personnel selection
• Methods for counseling long-term unemployed
• Work with disabled
• Development of business plan
• Market researches
• Information management
• Leading meetings and discussions
Continuous inconsecutive studies
Data on completion of the study programmes
Career counselors – 564:
2002 y – 80
2003 y– 106
2004 y – 97
2005 y – 117
2006 y – 80
2007 y - 84
Mediators -114 :
2002 y – 25
2003 y – 29
2004 y – 25
2005 y - 35
Business counselors:
2003 y - 49
Master study programme
Career designing
Basic characteristics
• An expansive master study programme devoted to
develop competencies in the area of career designing;
• Provides a master qualification degree in educology;
• Competency-based programme;
• Volume – 63 credits (94,5 ECTS);
• Duration – 1,5 year;
• Access requirements - university educational background
in the fields of social sciences or humanities;
• Complementary studies - those who do not have basics
of educology, psychology and management are required
to study those supplementary modules together with
bachelor students during the first two semesters.
Master Study Programme
"Career Designing"
Obligatory modules (3 credits)
M1 Vocational counseling systems
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
M7
Methodology of activity research
Research of vocational training and education
Methodology of vocational career research
Career counseling in organization
Psychological counseling methods
Career in different age stages
5 Optional modules (4 credits)
M8 Theories of educational sociology
M9 Applied educational philosophy
M10 Comparative educational policy
M11 Applied educational research
M12 Methodology for development of project works
M13 Lifelong learning quality assessment
M14 Systems of educational organization
M15 ICT in education
M16 Culture and educational change
M17 Andragogical didactics
2 Term papers (3 credits)
Master’s paper (15 credits)
Master study programme
Career designing
Forms of organization
• Full-time studies. Target group – students
graduated from bachelor level studies
without practical experience in the field.
• Extramural studies. Target group – career
counseling practicians from education and
labour market sector.
European structural fund project
Development and Implementation of the
Master Study Programme "Career Designing"
Main results:
 Developed and legalized the master study modular
programme “Career Designing”.
 Developed teaching-learning material - tool-kits for
study modules.
Implemented programme and prepared more that 80
masters in career designing.
Intentions for the future
• Postgraduate study programme based on
combination of theoretical and practical
studies in higher school and development
of practical skills in counselling institution
and providing career counselor’s
qualification.
• Scientific journal Career Designing:
Research and Counseling.
Thank you for attention!
Contacts
Lijana Navickiene
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel.+ 370 37 327827
Fax. + 370 37 327823