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Career Education
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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
The aim of the Programme is to educate highly qualified specialists of career education who would master theoretical conceptions of (self-) education for career and would be able to apply them when planning, modelling the process of career (self-) education, applying effective strategies for selection of a profession as well as career development and planning in the context of constantly changing educational and labour market demands.
Learning outcomes:
Generic competencies developed:
Ability to think critically, constructively and creatively. Communication skills. Ability to carry out scientific research
Subject specific competencies developed:
Ability to perceive theories of career education, applied methods and technologies, features of career process management in educational institutions and labour market. Will have knowledge on contemporary procedures of application of analytical career process methods and technologies. Ability critically assess and select interdisciplinary knowledge, to reason their functional significance in making efficient decisions in complex situations for career (self-) education. Ability to counsel, inform and guide people of various age groups interested in career issues.
Learning outcomes:
After completion of the Master’s degree program "Career Education" the acquired professional competence enables the graduate to advise clients in the fields of choice of profession, vocational training, career management, identification of personal interest and diagnostics of professional aptitude. The graduates are able to organize career guidance, to provide information and career education in all formal and non-formal educational sub-systems; to investigate and assess the professional qualification and retraining needs of separate individuals and groups; to prepare correctional educational programs focusing on the possibility of constant learning, while planning the career strategy in the institution as well as increasing competitiveness of an individual in the labor market.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Student-oriented learning (teaching) and research-based studies: interactive lecture, literature and document analysis, practice, reflection on performance, discussion, individual consultations, scientific research, student’s independent work.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
The scale of ten grades and accumulative evaluation system is being employed. Written exam, group homework, individual homework, case analysis, unconventional task, essay, portfolio of works, presentations, individual projects, group project, research work demonstrating the ability to select the most effective way to solve a problem, etc.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
The conceptual (methodological) fundamental of the Programme consists of contemporary educational science giving sense to the ideology of man’s lifelong teaching and learning, constructive and reconstructive interactions between theory and practice. The Programme integrates classical and contemporary ideas of career education and on the ground of them a constructive model of a career educator is being created; it also supposes consistent possibilities for (self-) development of universal and special professional competences in university studies. Education of a career educator in the Programme is focused not only on formal processes of institutional career education, but also on non-formal career development processes, their interaction and its management. Management of these processes is highly relevant to performance of a career educator. In the Programme career education covers all chains of the education system: starting from a pre-school education institution, school (vocational information points) to career centres in higher education institutions.Volume of the main subjects (modules) of the study area is 50 credits. Students study the following subjects (modules): Methodology of Career Education; Policy of Career Education; Career Education in Various Age Stages; Methodology of Educational Research; Vocational Guidance and Counselling of Pupils; Early Career Education; Theories of Lifelong Learning; Training and Counselling of Personnel; Andragogical Technologies for Career; Systems of Career Education; Theory and Methods of Search for a Job; Labour Market Research; Quality Management in Career Education
Specialisations:
Optional courses:
Distinctive features of a study programme:
Career Educology in the programme Career Educology involves all levels of educational system: from pre-school educational institution, school (centres of professional guidance) to career centres in institutions of higher education. The programme also includes issues of career modelling in other than educational institutions. The programme aims at balancing career education in educational institutions and career planning in other organizations. It fully corresponds to international tendency to prepare career specialists able to solve career-related issues with people of various age and needs, groups of people and organizations.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
Graduates of the Master's degree study program "Career Education" can work as career professionals in general education schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities, vocational and career counseling centers, youth employment centers, employment agencies, labor market training services as well as the staff training and career counseling centers at various companies, firms and other institutions.
Access to further study:
Graduates of the programme may continue their studies in doctoral programmes conducting fundamental and applied research in Lithuanian and foreign institutions by employing contemporary methods of educational research.
