STUDENTS’ CONCEPTION OF LEARNING AND CAREER ORIENTATION. A STUDY ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM ARAD
STUDENTS’ CONCEPTION OF LEARNING AND CAREER ORIENTATION. A STUDY ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM ARAD

Summary/Abstract: Within the Erasmus + project: ,,The suitcase, the map and the voyage of a youth worker” we have applied a questionnaire to 470 high school students from Arad, Romania, in order to identify their options in career choice. One of the objectives was to identify their conceptions of learning (as reproduction or as transformation) and to correlate them with their values, work motivation and learning style. The results have shown that students who obtained higher scores in learning as transformation preferred to obtain information about the jobs from specialized career counselling services, friends, jobs sites, movies, own preferences, Internet. They also value a working environment where they are challenged, their performance is recognized, they can find a balance between professional and personal life, they can manage their task in an autonomous manner, and they can have the feeling that they participate to a noble work. A paradigm shift is needed at Romanian education level, both at macro and micro level in paying more attention to counselling hours in schools and counselling service in general and in promoting different interactive, peer –facilitated learning situations

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