Mokinių požiūris į profesinio informavimo organizavimą bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje
Pupils Attitudes Towards Vocational Information Service in The Comprehensive School

Summary/Abstract: Pre-vocational activity is one of the key processes of the development of a young person, requiring certain skills, capacities, conditions for self-cognition, information about the current world of professional activities and identification of the relationship with this world. Significant scientific and technical achievements, rapid technological, economic, social and political changes followed by the emergence of new professions and disappearance of the old ones, predetermine a new approach towards the phenomenon of selection of a profession. Planning of professional activity affects everyone who seeks successful integration into the constantly changing labour market, and, consequently, becomes a constituent part of a permanent and inevitable process. In the modern dynamic, rapidly changing and developing society, the optimal reveal of the potential of individual capacities is instrumental, as well as successful adjustment to the labour market needs, understanding of responsibility for own decisions and lifelong learning capacities. Effective and timely vocational information is very important for successful socialisation of an individual, whereas effectively rendered vocational information service is of utmost importance to both: the education system, labour market and their interaction. The modern vocational career theory has been diversely developed by the following foreign researchers: Parsons (1909), Super (1961), Tilinghast (1964), Holland (1973), Harren (1979), Hoyt (1979), Rubinton (1980), Hesketh (1982), Fukuyama (1980, 1982, 1984), Herr, Cramer (1984) and others. Problems related to the selection of a profession and professional mission have been widely investigated in the earlier works of the lithuanian educologists and psychologists (Gučas, 1937; Šulcas, 1973; Kontvainas, 1976; Galkytė, 1977; Jovaiša, 1978; Kregždė, 1988; Beresnevičienė, 1990; Jatautaitė, 1991; Žilinskienė, 1994; Petrauskaitė, 1996, Laužackas, 1999,2005; Pūkelis, 2004). Vocational information is defined as one of the professional guidance components, which aims to provide information about profession contents, requirements and their peculiarities, profession acquisition, qualification development and employment possibilities. According to the analysis of professional information concepts used in scientific references and legal documents the main aim of professional information can be seen as information collection for certain target group needs, its administration and presentation. A possibility to choose profession in an adequate and rational way corresponding both individual personalities needs and work market situation are also provided. Aim of the research is to identify pupils' attitudes towards vocational information service in the comprehensive school...

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