Darbdavių požiūris į mokinių, turinčių specialiųjų ugdymosi poreikių,Dalyvavimą ikiprofesinio rengimo procese
The employers’ point of view towards participation in the process of pre-vocational training of pupils with special educational needs

Summary/Abstract: Pupils having special educational needs (SEN) belong to a high-risk group where individuals after obtaining basic or vocational education tend to become the long-term unemployed or occur below the poverty level. Well-considered social policy and prevocational training directed towards development of general and special abilities of SEN pupils in schools would benefit to successful integration of the disabled in the labour market ensuring wider social participation in the societal activities. On the ground of works as well as reflections on practical experience by national and foreign authors, involvement of employers into the process of pre-vocational training of SEN pupils is one of the major principles of prevocational training. The present article analyses the point of view of employers towards participation in the process of pre-vocational training of SEN pupils. The aim of the research is to reveal how employers of various size and profile enterprises having different experience of work with disabled staff evaluate possibilities to participate in the process of organisation of pre-vocational training for SEN individuals. The research has been carried out in 2011. The sample of 120 employers took part in the survey. The amount of 65 surveyed indicated that they had no experience of work with individuals having special needs, 17.5 per cent indicated that they had had such experience and 6.7 per cent experienced it for many times, 10.8 per cent had it little. From the point of view of research respondents, pre-vocational training of SEN pupils in schools is being carried out, but still insufficiently in the aspect of special “relevantly vocational” abilities. Involvement of employers into the process of prevocational\ training is a new challenge to both schools and employers; that is why the research revealed the role of attitudes and stereotypes in provision of conditions for SEN pupils to carry out testing of practical skills in enterprises...

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