Lietuviškai Turinys
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Peter Plant
Evident? Quality assurance and evidence in career guidance in Europe: a critical review More
Abstracts
Kęstutis Pukelis
Vytaytas Magnus University
Career designing: why and what?
This article introduces readers to the history of the term “career designing” and understanding of its conception, relations of career designing to vocational as well as life designing conceptions. It discusses the relation of career designing to such phenomena as “meaning”, “self-development”, “validity and reliability”, “career counselling” and others. Some main epistemological presuppositions of career designing as well as terminology issues are presented.
Key terms
The quality of life, career planning, career designing competence, career designing research, career education.
Ronald G. Sultana
University of Malta
Quality matters: ensuring high standards in career guidance service
This paper outlines some of the most prominent approaches to Quality Assurance that are used in the provision of career guidance services in Europe. Drawing on a range of sources, and particularly on the work that has been done in the context of the international Career Guidance reviews and studies since the year 2000, the paper identifies some of the key trends, as well as the most important challenges that need to be addressed in order to ensure that citizens are well served in what is increasingly seen to be an entitlement, particularly in a historical conjuncture marked by social and economic insecurity.
Peter Plant
Aarhus University
Evident?
Quality assurance and evidence in career guidance in europe: a critical review
Quality Assurance (QA) and Evidence in career guidance are increasingly seen as an essential part of explaining and even legitimising career guidance activities and policies. The impact of career guidance or career education has to be demonstrated. This paper provides a discussion of how and why QA and evidence approaches are featuring on the agenda of many European Countries. A particular focus is the link between quantitatively oriented QA approaches and the effects that this has on guidance policies and practices. Thus, specific QA and evidence approaches are more than measuring techniques and far from being neutral instruments.
Key terms
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN), evidence, career guidance (guidance), quality assurance, career education.
Lijana Navickienė
Vytautas Magnus University
Career counsellor’s qualification parameters
The main career counsellor’s qualification parameters defined through the content and level of qualification are analysed in the article. Competences that constitute the content of career counsellor’s qualification are discussed on the basis of comparative analysis of various vocational standards for career counsellors and qualification descriptions. Career counsellor’s activity tasks and complexity of competences required for these tasks were analysed in order to theoretically and on the basis of expert survey validate career counsellor’s qualification level in accordance with the European life-long learning and Lithuanian qualifications frameworks, as well as the frameworks of qualifications for the European and Lithuanian Higher Education Area.
Key terms
Background education, career designing services, career counsellor, competence, qualification, qualification level, qualification content, skill, professional standard (description of a qualification).