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.

4-6

Authors: Dalia Augienė, Vincentas Lamanauskas

In post-modern society where rapid economic, social and political changes take place, career planning and management becomes more and more urgent every day. The mentioned changes not necessarily are positive or providing only all-round benefit. The environment becomes turbulent, in general sense; therefore it is natural that career environment in fact, is chaotic as well. Nevertheless, career for many people is, undoubtedly, very important, because it is directly related to life quality. Professional activity satisfies almost all human needs: physiological, safety, social, attainment, self-realisation, independence, autonomy and other. The efficiency of the mentioned activity and the ability of the personality to construct his career are closely related things. In the context of these changes and new requirements to man’s activity, has changed an attitude to career phenomenon. Therefore, career phenomenon becomes a research object for many science fields: educology, psychology, culture, economics, management and other. Because of that reason career process is considered interdisciplinary research object and its definition is understood differently and different career conceptions are distinguished. One can claim that this is methodological discourse field. From a practical point of view, it is important to find effectively running career management systems, guaranteeing personal and concrete organisation’s professional success.

24-31

Authors: Genutė Kalvaitienė, Viktoras Senčila

The particular dynamics of vacancies and movement of labour force, rapid changes of activity content are characteristic of maritime sectors and its labour market. It urges to activate the research of future seafarers’ professional career planning and career planning skills development. The empirical part was devoted to the investigation of the lecturers’ assessment of maritime students’ professional career planning skills and the lecturers’ participation in the process of professional career planning skills development. The research showed that the maritime students quite seldom address their lecturers on the issues of professional career planning. Less than a half of the lecturers frequently communicate with students on the issues of professional career planning. The qualitative research showed that the success of students’ professional career is determined by the professional competence; general and career planning skills.

40-47

Authors: Ivan D. Krastev, Gergana V. Stanoeva

The aim of this study is to analyze the relationships between organizational citizenship behavior and the acts of support and trust, and formal relationships in the workplace, among teaching staff in Bulgarian secondary schools and vocational schools. The sample of the study consisted of 127 Bulgarian teachers. Research tools include Organizational Citizenship Behavior Checklist (OCB-C) created by Suzy Fox and Paul E. Spector (2011) and Scale for satisfaction with coworkers (with subscales Support, Trust and Formal relationships) from Questionnaire measuring job satisfaction, developed by Radoslavova (2005). The results revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between OCB and the components of satisfaction with coworkers such as support, trust, and working formal relationships. By providing original data, this study may contribute to the development of knowledge on OCB in Bulgarian teaching context.

56-61

Authors: Stanislava Y. Stoyanova, Stoil L. Mavrodiev

The study of the teachers’ re-training could support the teachers’ image as good professionalist, competent, aiming to be useful for the students’ by means of own improvement. Two cases of implementation of teachers’ training programmes on the topics of use of computers in education and work with pupils with special educational needs in Bulgaria are described. These were among the most preferred topics of teachers’ continuing education. In total, 54 teachers took part in the training programmes. Their effectiveness was measured by means of the teachers’ results on the exams, the chosen topics for preparation of the course projects, the different approaches to the similar topics, sharing of own experience by the teachers, and the time period of the training.