Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2012 5 (8)

Authors

Luchenkov, Andrey V.

Contact information

Luchenkov, Andrey V. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia , e-mail:

Keywords

senior secondary school; career-oriented school; educational goals; a senior student's self-determination; career counseling at school

Abstract

The ideas of career-oriented education are being introduced in our country from 2003. This process is being monitored regarding conditions and opportunities that are provided at school for senior students education. This article is an attempt to get the students feedback, their answers to the following questions: Is a career-oriented school a place for a student where he/she is taught to choose his/her life style?,Do the students solve the task of self-determination in respect of their future life and career?. The basis for this research is the research carried out in the frame of the Project of career-oriented education models approbation in Krasnoyarskiy Krai (2008). 4174 students of grades 9 and 11, who are residents of cities and villages of Krasnoyarskiy Krai, were involved in it. Questionnaire poll was chosen as a method of the research. The questionnaire-form included questions of both types: open and closed. The students were asked to define career-oriented education, single out weak and strong aspects of it, dwell upon the issue how school might influence the choice of their career (vocational self-determination), etc. The research has led to the following conclusions: 1) urban students start solving the tasks of vocational self-determination later than village ones; 2) students of both grades (grade 9 and grade 11) have a very narrow and one-sided idea of careeroriented education and single out only two results of such education, and namely: vocational selfdetermination and entering a higher education institution; 3) acuteness of vocational self-determination issue doesnt reduce from grade 9 to grade 11. It means that discussing senior students education we cant confine ourselves to changes in curricula only (that is core subjects introduction, choice of the level of mastering subjects (basic, core), elective courses). The whole environment around a student influences the process of his/her self-determination. It can both facilitate and impede this process. Based on the mentioned above the following objectives of career-oriented education implementation at the present stage have been formulated: 1. Creating the opportunities for the students choice of the level of mastering curricula, courses, practices, projects and other kinds of senior students activity at every school. 2. Development of the system of pedagogical guidance of the students self-determination process - providing the circumstances for launch and realization of the students reflection about their educational way in the context of self-determination in life. 3. Expansion of the borders of a career-oriented schools educational opportunities due to inclusion of a citys / villages, a regions, a countrys, the worlds resources it its space.

Pages

1165-1178

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/3022

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