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Contents, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2018, SPVK/EPMQ

GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOL CAREER SPECIALIST’S ROLE DEVELOPING STUDENT CAREER COMPETENCIES

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In Lithuanian context, professional consultation, information and career education is considered one of the most important factors, encouraging occupation, labour force adaptation to market conditions, entrepreneurship and equal possibilities. Lately, it is more and more related to social and economic policy. General education school and the subjects functioning in it: the students themselves, class teachers, subject teachers, administration play the main role in career education process. A special role in students’ career education have career specialists. School career specialist helps the student to cognise his professional calling, personal abilities, interests, to acquire career planning and its management abilities, to accumulate necessary knowledge and skills, general competencies for career goal implementation, to learn flexibly react to changes, to be able to make appropriate decisions, to acquire lifelong learning motivation, to solve personal life questions. School has to assure effective development of career competencies, which are necessary to consciously and successfully create and manage your career, and respecting student’s inclinations, values and abilities, to help him cognise himself, the activity world, and to choose future career.

CAREER EDUCATION OF 7TH-8TH GRADE STUDENTS: CAREER PROFESSIONALS` POSITION

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Organizational opportunities and peculiarities of career counselling for students in General Education Schools are disclosed in the research. Object of the research: Problems of career development of 7-8 grade students in general education schools of Kupiškis region municipality. The aim of the research was to determine how career development in region schools is being pursued, to identify existing problems and to anticipate improvement opportunities. Five teachers of region general education schools, responsible for career development, participated in the research. The structured individual interview was used to obtain the survey data. The results of the research revealed that the career education of 7-8 grade students is not carried out in all the schools in the region: in five of the seven schools there is a career counselor who does not guarantee a comprehensive career development for students. Not all the teachers in the region, who are responsible for career development, are trained as a career specialist. A career counsellor at school is the only person, who is responsible for career development, but he has more responsibilities and cannot give enough attention to the career development of students. Career Information optional subject in grades 7-8 is provided only in two schools curriculum. Students' vocational information is mainly provided in the schools. Meanwhile, experiential visits to vocational training are rarely carried out, students have access to individual career advice not in all the schools.

IMPLEMENTATION OF CAREER EDUCATION IN GYMNASIUM: EXPECTATIONS AND PROBLEMS

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The National Programme for the Development of Studies, Scientific Research and Experimental (Social and Cultural) Development for 2013–2022 claims that the society has become active, unanimous and lifelong learning, what is more, each person is open to changes, responsible and creative. The laws highlight that an educational institution has to ensure that every student attending it knows where, when and how to get the service of career education and vocational counselling. The research aimed at revealing functions of education specialists working in five biggest municipalities in Marijampole county, as well as guiding the implementation of career education in gymnasiums within Marijampole region. In order to find education specialists‘ opinion, a structured interview was carried out. The research data revealed that the service of career education is available in educational institutions. However, according to the position of the respondents, the service is not adequate to satisfy students` needs. The service of career education is not consistent, furthermore, career education specialists do not have an opportunity to achieve high quality in service provision since it lacks adequate financial support.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL NEED OF PEACE EDUCATION

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The concept of peace includes the phenomenon of the lack of conflict and the existence of a healthy climate of human relations, inside and outside the country. So, we could also include the existence of harmony in social relations, economical welfare, the climate of equality, and justice in political relations or said in a more concentrated way, the picture of a state without war and conflicts. But another definition for peace includes even keeping the balance in human relations, tolerance, and the way of resolving problems through dialog and deals between the two conflicted groups. Peace is a typical and a dominating element in a democratic society, because it is built on the strong foundations of respect for the universal law of freedom and human rights. However, the concept of peace, has not escaped from the different interpretations varying on the circumstances and conditions of the existence of a population, culture and cultural level it inherits, also historical and political context of the time. The study analyzes some of the philosophical concepts on peace, its evolution in the flow of history and the need of it in our modern era. Thus, for accomplishing this research, I referred to different books dealing with relevant subjects such as peace and conflict, by using the method of analyzing and interpreting.

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