Baltic Journal of Career Education and Management

4-5

Authors: Dalia Augienė

Career, as a succession of human activities through all his life, is conditioned by various economic, social, political, cultural, psychological and other factors. Due to intensive technology development, the world experiences deep social economic transformations, described by a wide diapason of interrelated changes: from the man’s thinking, compatible with the newest paradigms and perception of himself and his own activity to global, political, economic, demographic and other change processes. Life restructurisation affects the individual, pushing him out from a traditional way of life and requiring from him plenty of decisions and self- determination, which very often reflect his preparation and ability to adjust to novelties and constantly changing life and activity conditions. The spread of inevitable globalisation, work world, science knowledge and information technologies dictate the necessity for lifelong learning.

16-32

Authors: Anita Rācene

The development of women’s career is more complicated than that of men’s, as various internal and external barriers exist, for instance, the family and related duties, the role in life, employment, the surrounding environment, traditions and stereotypes that both facilitate and limit the choice of a career by women and their career growth. To understand the specifics of women’s professional career, scientists seek to explain the relations of employment and careers. A career is defined as a position of employment, a sequence of roles, activities and experiences that combines the job, the career and the profession as well as the situation of being unemployed. It means that a career may develop not only upwards, but during its course women may end up in various situations and have various statuses of employment. Therefore, employment is associated with a professional career through the change of the status of employment. The research includes the research results on women’s career patterns. The research aim is to examine the ways of women’s career pattern. To achieve the aim, a survey of women was conducted. In the survey, the ways of women’s career pattern in Latvia were identified based on seven ways of women’s career pattern, as defined by D. Super’s Theory of Career Development. The paper concludes that the distribution of the given of women’s careers patterns are as follows: 38.5 % are parallel careers, 25.6 % interrupted careers, 15.4 % stable careers, 12.8 % traditional careers, 5.1 % instable careers and 2.6 % are stable housekeeper careers. The research results will contribute to the understanding of the ways of women’s career pattern.

37-45

Authors: Ana Cristina Santos Duarte, Héctor Santiago Odetti

The constant and rapid changes that mark the contemporary world require adequate, and compatible with our own critiques against positivism, social practices from the universities. In this sense, the university has sought to establish partnerships and collective actions with the community and develop more direct research and intervention projects, especially with schools, to contribute to the improvement of the teaching-learning process. Thus, this research aims to evaluate educational research projects developed in Argentina, identifying which impacts they have on teachers’ training and practice as well as the difficulties to implement the proposal.