Project No. 107675-DC-1-2002-1-IT-DISSEM-CDIS
Project duration: 2004–2005
Project co-funder: European Comission, Socrates programme
Project coordinator: Liceo Socio-Psico-Pedagogico “Regina Elena” (Italy)
Project partners:
Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación of the University of Alcalá (Spain)
Modern Didactics Centre (Lithuania)
Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania)
Institute of Educational Sciences (Romania)
Project presentation in Vilnius
PROJECT RELEVANCE
The growing complexity of labour market, the related variety and fragmentation of vocational training and the remarkable changes introduced by recent reforms in higher education give the guidance activities a role more and more strategic so that the individual vocational training on one side, and the vocational system, on the other side, may fully achieve their own objectives. In the field of knowledge learning cannot be relegated only to the specific phases of individual life, preceding the entrance into the labour market, but it must follow the different phases of the working life of each person (lifelong learning). Consequently, also the role of guidance activities has been rearranged: it is acquiring a new importance not only in schools and universities (or as an introduction to the labour market), but also in the complex organisations in order to follow and address individual and social development. The changes in guidance activities determine the necessity of a very specialised training for guidance counsellors and practitioners, either secondary school teachers, or university teachers, or experts working in several public and private institutions (and also in the company sector). A guidance expert should deal not only with the knowledge of guidance theories and techniques, or with the knowledge of psychological and pedagogical features, but he must also be an expert in communication and he should be able to understand social changes and labour market challenges very quickly. Furthermore, he should be able to manage the ICT and he should know its potentialities in the fields of vocational training, counselling and guidance.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
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Draw together results deriving from a range of SOCRATES project dealing with guidance and counselling by establishing a web-based knowledge base and online advice resource. This will ensure that those professionally concerned with guidance and counselling are provided with a new reference tool helping their everyday educational activity.
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Disseminate the SOCRATES project results particularly in the Eastern European regions, where still limited access exists on career guidance and counselling resources and tools.
PROJECT TARGET GROUPS
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Guidance counsellors and pratictioners.
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Teachers.
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Headmasters and school staff.
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Policy makers.
PROJECT RESULTS
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Creation of a thematic website portal on guidance and counselling www.guidanceisok.org (not available) , comprising a knowledge-base and a online advice resource for guidance professionals, school staff and policy makers.
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Two large-scale local seminars, including website demonstration and training sessions, to be held in Eastern European countries.
- The project should increase students’ awareness of their skills and attitudes and also teacher’s counselling role.
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