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Career Education for Teachers: Reflections on ESF Project Implementation in Latvia

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Olehnoviča E., Kravale-Pauliņa M.

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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2008

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vol. 9

68-80

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In Latvia, the issues of career education are most often addressed by school teachers. In 2003, the Standards of Teacher Profession adopted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia provided the list of teachers' duties, tasks, and specific skills. One of such skills is to help pupils to understand the professional activities and to teach them career planning. This issue is given insufficient attention in teacher professional education. The article aims to use the context of sustainable education to analyze the activities carried out within the National Program Project Career Education Activity Provision in the System of Education co-financed by the European Social Fund. The questionnaires were designed to determine the needs for teacher education in relation to learner's career education. The data were obtained from in-service teachers (N=228) involved in career advising activities for their pupils in all regions of Latvia and were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results approve and elaborate on a necessity of integrating career education issues in the teacher education curriculum.

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Education as a spectral technology: Corporate culture at work in Ontario‘s schools

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Martin S. M.

Journal of Pedagogy

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2012

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vol. 3

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issue 2

263-278

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This paper addresses the sweeping neoliberal reforms implemented in Ontario’s schools in 2000, and conceptualises them within the terms of ‘millennial capitalism’ (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2000). A close reading of secondary school curriculum documents and the umbrella policies that shape education from ages 5 to 18 years reveals how students are groomed to identify themselves as workers under construction. This is accomplished by mandating career education that defines lived experience as a ‘career’, articulates an identity for students as workers/producers, and dictates a direct relationship between education and the health of the economy. For students the professed advantages of millennial capitalism come from freedom and choice to navigate a post-secondary future in an abstract market that rewards those who respond to its highs and lows. Despite the drop-out ‘crisis’ that followed the initial reforms, and the next government’s efforts to remediate the damage done, ultimately corporatist/careerist mantras continue to haunt classrooms, shape education, and its aims and goals in Ontario. The analysis offered in this paper aims to help us better understand the resilience of the neoliberal agenda in the current global economic ‘crisis’, in light of ongoing calls for ‘value-for-money’ in delivering public services and overall competitiveness. Ontario’s education system has a reputation internationally as a high-level performer; this positioning in light of the anomalies presented by its policy and curriculum serves as a cautionary tale to countries that connect growth in GDP with the results of its children and youth on standardised tests. Further, it reveals the disparity between statistics at the macro level and life at the level of the classroom.

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Jakie interwencje w poradnictwie kariery i konstruowania życia mogą przyczynić się do globalnego, humanitarnego, sprawiedliwego i zrównoważonego rozwoju?

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Guichard J.

Studia Poradoznawcze

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2018

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vol. 7

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Most of the career and life design interventions designed since the end of the 19th century were only employability guidance. Given the extent of contemporary crises (threats to our ecosystem, increased wealth inequality, decentwork deficit, mass emigration, etc.) produced by the current forms of work organization and exchange, interventions supporting the design of active lives, contributing to global, humane, equitable and sustainable development,must now be created. Their objectives would stand in accordance with the programmes of major international organizations (notably the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development). They would refer to the fundamental ethicalimperative of “directing one’s active live in such a way that it helps all human beings to live well, with and for others, in just institutions, ensuring the permanence of genuine human life on Earth”. From this imperative one may derive a principle of ecological subsidiarity consisting of giving priority to local or regional productions having a smaller ecological footprint than more distant ones. These interventions would take the form of a new career education for young people, workshops for collectives wishing to establish local exchange systems and counselling dialogues supporting the reflections of individuals on their construction of active lives based on such ethical principles. Such a programme, however, can only succeed if it is supported by the institution of an international law regulating the issues of work and exchange of its products.

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Większość interwencji w poradnictwie, które zostały zaprojektowane pod koniec XIX wieku, ograniczała się do prowadzenia jednostek w kierunku zatrudnienia. Biorąc pod uwagę skalę współczesnych kryzysów (zagrożenia dlanaszego ekosystemu, zwiększona nierówność majątkowa, deficyt godnej pracy, masowa emigracja itp.) wywołanych obecnymi formami organizacji i wymiany produktów pracy, należy teraz opracować interwencje wspierające budowanie aktywnego życia, przyczyniając się tym do globalnego, humanitarnego, sprawiedliwego i zrównoważonego rozwoju. Ich cele byłyby zgodne z programami głównych organizacji międzynarodowych (w tym Agendą ONZ na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju do 2030 roku). Odnosiłyby się one do fundamentalnego imperatywu etycznego: „kierowanie swoim aktywnym życiem w taki sposób, aby przyczyniało się ono do dobrego życia z innymi i dla innych, w instytucjach sprawiedliwych, zapewniając trwałość autentycznie ludzkiego życia na Ziemi”. Z tego imperatywu można wywnioskować zasadę subsydiarności (pomocniczości) ekologicznej polegającą na nadaniu priorytetu lokalnym lub regionalnym produkcjom, które mają niższy wskaźnik ekologicznych zanieczyszczeń niż produkcja bardziej odległa. Interwencje te przybrałyby formę nowej edukacji zorientowanej na młodzież, warsztatów dla zespołów pragnących stworzyć systemy lokalnych wymian i dialogów doradczych wspierających refleksje pojedynczych osób na temat budowania aktywnego życia, opartego na takich zasadach etycznych. Jednakże taki program może być w pełni udany tylko wtedy, gdy będzie wspierany przez instytucję prawa międzynarodowego, regulującego kwestie pracy i wymiany jej produktów.

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Career Education for Teachers: Reflections on ESF Project Implementation in Latvia

Education as a spectral technology: Corporate culture at work in Ontario‘s schools

Jakie interwencje w poradnictwie kariery i konstruowania życia mogą przyczynić się do globalnego, humanitarnego, sprawiedliwego i zrównoważonego rozwoju?