The bill is aimed to effectively regulate the profession of psychologist because of the failure to implement the previous Act on the profession of psychologist and professional self-government of psychologists. As no professional self-government for psychologists has been established it is now largely a dead law. The new Deputies’ bill is based also on the key role of the professional corpora‑ tion of psychologists and includes proposals for legal definitions. In the author’s view, the blanket nature of the bill on important issues and the lack of a diagnosis of the regulated area may raise concerns about the potential for a repeated regulatory failure.
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of occupational burnout in social services professions. Occupational burnout was first reported in the seventies. Intense civilization changes and increasing demands placed on social services have caused that the psychological costs they incur. At work, doctors, nurses, teachers, emergency workers, police officers and others are becoming more and more significant. Representatives of these professions are exposed to severe stress, which they can not cope with, are permanently tired, exhausted, are less and less satisfied with the work they do. Taking up the fight with such burdens, they distance themselves from the people they help. Over time, their involvement in the profession is getting weaker. They change it or go into premature retirement. These phenomena are commonly called “burnout”.
The aim of the article is to show the possibility of applying assumptions from ethics of social consequences when making decisions about actions, as well as in situations of moral dilemmas, by persons performing occupations of public trust on a daily basis. Reasoning in the article is analytical and synthetic. Article begins with an explanation of the basic concepts of “profession” and “the profession of public trust” and a manifestation of the difference between these terms. This is followed by a general description of professions of public trust. The area and definition of moral dilemmas is emphasized. Furthermore, representatives of professions belonging to them are listed. After a brief characterization of axiological foundations and the main assumptions of ethics of social consequences, actions according to Vasil Gluchman and Włodzimierz Galewicz are discussed and actions in line with ethics of social consequences are transferred to the practical domain. The article points out that actions in professional life are obligatory, impermissible, permissible, supererogatory and unmarked in the moral dimension. In the final part of the article an afterthought is included on how to solve moral dilemmas when in the position of a representative of the profession of public trust. The article concludes with a summary report containing the conclusions that stem from ethics of social consequences for professions of public trust, followed by short examples.
Professional career has become an increasingly frequently chosen subject of theoretical research based on numerous sciences, such as psychology, sociology, economics, pedagogy, and management. Constantly emerging, new theories of professional development provide a new perspective on this issue. A plethora of contemporary transformations obliges an individual to take responsibility for his or her own professional biography. If every person carries out a career, regardless of its quality, and if that career lasts for the person’s whole lifetime, both throughout the period of professional activity and the time of preparation preceding it, one can presume that the choice of career requires reflection and in-depth conceptual considerations, which proves its significance for the subject.
The article describes the stages of professional development of the individual; psychological regularities and features of professionalization in student's years are analyzed.
The study concerns the legal protection of professional titles, which are related to professional activities. It presents the genesis of such professional titles and their protection in Poland, which initially related to the protection of selected so-called ‘free legal professions’ (such as tax advisor, advocate, legal advisor, patent agent). The evolution of the subjective scope of how these professions occurred is also presented, including the introduction of this type of solution in relation to certain professions termed ‘free economic professions’ (chartered accountant, stockbroker and investment advisor), certain ‘free medical professions’ (nurse/nurse, midwife/midwife, laboratory diagnostician, physiotherapist, pharmacist), and selected socalled ‘free professions’, within which no professional self-governments functions (real estate appraiser). In this regard, it is noted that the legal protection of professional titles went beyond the scope of professional activity and also covered certain spheres of economic activity, an example of which are detective services provided by persons holding the professional title of detective. Against the background of the analysis of European standards, it is established here that the introduction of legal protection of professional titles should now be regarded as one of the means of regulating access to a profession. It is shown that the essence of the legal protection of the professional title comes down to the right of authorised persons to use the title on an exclusive basis, in order that other persons may not use the reserved title in this way, nor may their behaviour mislead the users of their services as to the fact that they hold a specific professional title, even if they have the appropriate knowledge and skills. There are various forms of legal protection – criminal, administrative and civil liability measures apply, but there are no comprehensive guarantees. A legally protected professional title can also be regarded as one of the determinants of the concept of a profession.
Interest in the topic comes from empirical observations of various professional groups and people operating within particular professions. An extremely interesting phenomenon is the diversity of attitudes towards the profession. Extremely negative, reluctant attitudes on the one hand, up to full fascination and delight on the other are observed. Relatively least common is a strong and positive commitment to the profession, treating work not only as a financial necessity or fate, but as a joy. There are people who would not change their profession to any other, and a retrospective analysis of experience allows us to reach statements about great satisfaction with the chosen profession, type of work or type of activity. As a result of the study of 60 contemporary Polish and 60 German artists , it turned out that the level of functioning in the profession of painter, sculptor and graphic designer depends on the type of premises determining the choice of this profession. It is definitely higher if the motivation is personal and is the result of internal, independent artistic activity that has been ongoing over the years. When it is accompanied by a sense of self-realization in works and through artistic activity. Also when it occurs independently of the opinions of educational and other environments stimulating existential decisions. Also when interests in painting, sculpting or drawing are continuous and continue over the years. Assuming that the status of a master in the artist's profession determines the personality traits of young people interested in artistic activity, knowledge of the essential features of the biographies of several dozen professionally and environmentally verified artists in Poland and Germany allows for the creation of a model for implementing the process of shaping a personality that functions positively in this type of professions.
Professional life of a person under nowadays conditions is highly vigorous and chaotic. To choose a profession is a sophisticated process which is accompanied by doubts and stress. The attitude to the profession, the career understanding and the meaning of work changes under various factors. The influence of social factors, especially the specificity of the sociocultural conditions of life, interlacing in the complex of the psychological characteristics of the student (motives, experience etc.) is manifested in the peculiarities of his activity, behavior and interaction with others. Purpose of this article is to analyse the factors of students’ professional self-determination of higher education institutions. Methods of research: 1. Theoretical methods: analysis and generalization of scientific literature. 2. Empirical methods: for the study was used quantitative research method. Results. The questionnaire of students showed that social orientation largely determines professional self-determination of a person. Certain factors are important to choose a profession. They are divided into internal (health, vocation, ability, interests) and external (family, friends, career opportunities, the situation at the labor market, the various country and the world’s events). The most important elements for future profession for students were the possibility of employment and the salary. Health conditions are one of the most significant factors for students’ professional self-determination.
The article analyzes the crisis of political and medical elites in the context of honesty, reliability and diligence. The starting point is the notion of “professional elite” and the differences between representatives of both groups. The text emphasizes the public resonance and interpretation of both professions. According to E. Freidson’s theoretical model, the physician`s and politician`s authorities have different reasons, functions and legitimization. Both professions are based on public trust in interaction practices. The public expectations are focused mostly on instrumental and axiological trust. Obeying various rules and norms is expected from both professions but the social control and sanctions are different. Both physicians and politicians have their own ethical codes; the problem is that they are not always respected. The article concludes with discussion on the notion of risk in both professions and presents suggestions about what elites should do to maintain or regain public trust.
The study deals with the motivation of Czech dancers to carry on their profession. The author focuses on contemporary dance, meaning on the environment outside ballet ensembles, and in particular on the entities founded after the “Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution” in 1989. An exploration about artists´ thinking is based on the qualitative analysis of interviews with the leading representatives in that realm, and on the analysis of already published texts dealing with important aspects of researched persons´ working life. As resulting from the research, the major motivation factor for the dancers is their personal and strong tie to the dance; the drive to carry on the professions comes solely and exclusively from the inner intellectual world of artists. The dance is a personified life philosophy for the respondents; it is a paraphrase of the meaning of life. The investigated materials also point out key personal characteristics, which can influence the quality of their lives directly: flexibility, assimilation, self-reliance, self- discipline, and liability.
The study answers the question whether the teaching profession has the attributes typical of genuine professions. It presents an analysis of the state of fulfilling the requirements of the teaching profession. It focuses especially on the description of the level of teachers’ professional identity in Slovakia. It argues that to be an autonomous subject is the basic requirement of a teacher’s expertise. It gives characteristics of the current understanding of the expertise in the teaching profession and professional knowledge, needed for a teacher’s performance that is based on the cycle of integrating theory and practice and its reflection. It describes two main hindrances to the transition of a teaching career into an expert profession: a) the existing legislative barriers that separate the expertise and the teaching competence; and b) current obstacles in the university teacher training, especially in its curriculum and in the methodology used by university teacher trainers.
This article refers to selected narrative axes surrounding the teaching profession. Against the background of organisational and legal aspects as well as the social perspective, the opinions of preschool and early school teachers about their professional work are presented. In order to gain insight into teachers’ points of view, in 2022 a diagnostic survey was conducted in which 63 teachers of preschool and early school education participated. For the purposes of this research, hypotheses were formulated relating to the level of teachers’ satisfaction with their work, remuneration as one of the key factors of job satisfaction, the phenomenon of professional burnout and teachers’ perception of their profession in terms of social mission. The results did not confirm the dominance of low professional satisfaction among teachers. They also indicated that the remuneration is not a factor determining its occurrence. The assumption that professional burnout is a common phenomenon among teachers was not confirmed, and furthermore, it is not a problem that only affects teachers with great professional experience. At the same time, most of the teachers surveyed agreed with the statement that their profession was a vocation.
Aim. In Turkey, in connection with the Bologna process, German is also taught in Turkish universities as an elective course. There is an important relationship between the selection of the subject in the elective German courses, detailed planning of the courses, and the implementation of the appropriate method. In this study, the subject of professions was planned for the elective German courses. The purpose of this study is the preparation, implementation and evaluation of a sample lesson to describe the selection of the subject of professions for the German course taught as an elective course in the universities. Concept and Methods. This study was conducted by qualitative research. The document research technique was used in the study (Yıldırım & Şimşek, 2008). During the 2018/2019 academic year, I taught about the subject of profession selection in my German courses. I prepared, implemented and evaluated the subject of professions according to the lesson planning model I had previously developed (Coşkun, 2018). I prepared the materials used in this course according to this model. Result and Conclusion. The success of the lesson planning model mentioned above was also observed in the activities conducted earlier. It was also seen that the students who attended German courses in connection with the Bologna process exerted efforts in establishing contact with the instructor and the students attending the class. It was observed that the participants introduced themselves, mentioned the field or the branch in the university where they were studying, and were interested to gain experience abroad in order to be successful in their professions. In addition to the subject discussed in the class, the method implemented in the lesson and the planning of the lesson according to the method, play an important role in the continuation of this interest. Therefore, effective lesson planning models and unique methods should be developed. Origin. Students from all the departments of the university may attend the elective German language classes opened in connection with the Bologna process. The condition for participation in the courses “German for Erasmus” and “German for Communication” which I teach, is to learn German at the A1 level. It is frequently observed that the participants speak German at different levels. The overseas experience of the participants, the quality of the German and other language education they had received from primary to high school and university play an important role in this. In the recent years, the number of participants from German and other foreign language speaking countries has increased. The students who had been in German-speaking countries under the Erasmus program participate in the German courses also to maintain their fluency in the German language. In order to execute the German courses effectively for different purposes, for different fields and participants coming from different countries and students with different levels of fluency, a suitable method should be developed. It is believed that this inter-disciplinary study will contribute to the active German courses.
Aim. In the paper, the authors demonstrate the influence of the education and educational level of social workers on the quality of social work as a profession that helps people in unfavorable situation. They point to the importance of lifelong learning, which is essential for advancing the knowledge and competences of social workers in practice. Concept. Lifelong education for social workers is currently a necessity for their functioning not only on the basis of the rapid, dynamic changes in their problems and social clients, but also for rapid and dynamic changes in the use of methods and techniques of social work. Method. The study deals with the educational development of employees in the profession of social worker. It defines and identifies forms of continuous education of social workers, which can have different methods and which can result in different competencies of a social worker. Results. The study confirms that the lifelong learning of social workers requires constant access to support and information about education, but also to set opportunities and thus facilitate access to the education of social workers. It is necessary to realise that the competences of the social worker must be in accordance with the education that the social worker has. Conclusion. The scientific articles and contributions that we offer in this study point to lifelong learning, which has the effect of expanding the possibilities of a social worker’s work with several types of clients, increases his competences and thus acquires a lot of knowledge and skills that are subsequently applied in practice.
In given article a brief characterization of the issue as new surrogates calculates the surrogate mother. The survey was carried out, the analysis of the phenomenon on the basis of the available literature, online content of legal documents. Shows trends, reviews, as well as societal demands in terms of the needs and the new role of the use of surrogate mothers in the in vitro.
Artykuł zawiera zagadnienia związane z profesją nauczyciela, poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytania: 1) Kim jest nauczyciel?, 2) Nauczyciel powołanie czy zawód? oraz zwraca uwagę na 3) Oczekiwania nauczycieli związane z ich funkcjonowaniem w zawodzie. Szukając odpowiedzi na stawiane pytania, podjęta została próba usytuowania nauczyciela w aktywności zawodowej, która może stanowić podstawę do zastanowienia się, czy pracę nauczyciela należy postrzegać w kategoriach zawodu czy powołania?
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The article contains issues related to the profession of teacher, looking for answers to the questions: 1) Who is the teacher?, 2) Teacher, vocation or profession? and draws attention to 3) Expectations of teachers related to their functioning in the profession. Searching for answers to the questions posed, an attempt was made to position the teacher in professional activity, which may be the basis for wondering whether the teacher's work should be seen in terms of calling.
The profession of the sommelier is not popular in the Polish hospitality industry. In most restaurants, this position does not exist. Only in a few, best restaurants this kind of workplace is created. However, forecasts for wine consumption in the Polish society suggest that the profession of sommelier will continue to develop constantly. So far, customers have not expected advice on wines because they do not know that they could receive such help. This does not mean, however, that there is no promotion area for the sommelier profession on the national job market. Since 2001, the Association of Polish Sommeliers has been operating, which undertakes a number of actions in the field. The main aim of the article is to present the activities of the Association with reference to promoting the sommelier profession on the job market in Poland, and to evaluate their effectiveness. The paper covers the theoretical aspects of profession promotion, the legislative conditions of the sommelier profession in Poland, and the characteristics of the activities of the Association of Polish Sommeliers for promoting the sommelier profession.
The shortage of welding specialists is a long-term problem in the labour market of Lithuania. Ststistical data show the lack of thousands specialists in this field with increasing gap between their supply and demand. It creates concern, because the shortage of skilled welders forces enterprises to refuse many profitable orders. In this article is presented the analysis of the reasons regarding the shortage of welding specialists in the labour market of Lithuania; also here are disclosed the gaps in the identification of the demand of welders and justifying the importance of this identification of demand for effective functioning of labour market. Referring to the results of research there can be stated, that the goal to satisfy the real needs of economy in welding specialists can be achieved by identifying the demand in terms of concrete qualifications of these specialists and in terms of numbers of required specialists. Absence of exact data in these fields creates the situation of uncertainty which does not permit smooth functioning of vocational guidance and vocational education and training of these specialists. As a consequence, it is not possible to ensure adequate reaction of the VET system to the demands of labour market. There are suggested instruments helping to identify the levels of qualifications and competences of welding specialists, to classify them into specialities and specialisations and to define the limits of their qualifications. There is also provided the model for identification of the demand of welding specialists in the national labour market. These measures create favourable preconditions for adequate reaction to the existing shortages of welding specialists and for the satisfaction of corresponding needs in the sectors of economy.
The article contains the definition of professional burn-out and introduces it levels. In the paper, there are presented pilot research results conducted among the pre-school teachers in Poland and Slovakia. Research results were analysed through a comparative analysis. In the paper there are identified the levels of the professional burn-out of the examined teachers, namely: emotional exhaustion, deperson- alization, and the decreasing of the personal success satisfaction.
Analysis of training needs tends to consist of determination of discrepancies between what people know and can perform, and what they should know and be able to do. Consequently this process regards evaluation of differences between the current state of affairs and the desirable result, in other words – what people must learn in order to do their work well. This implies a need for learning to improve. In order to carry out successful detection and analysis of needs, research was conducted on achievements among disabled persons. Their hobbies and practical experience were studied as a basis for future professional activities. The research involved 139 people with disabilities.
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