Career Education

Recommended Prerequisites

N.A.

Teaching Methods

Face to face.  Lectures, case studies, analyis and discussion of educational evaluation practices

Learning Outcomes

To understand the anthropological dimension of the phenomenon work as a condition of historicity of the concept of career.

To reflect on the sociological, political, and psychological aspects of the vocation.

To establish the developmental implications of vocational phenomena to the context of career education.

To analyze different methodologies and practices as means to help in the vocational and educational guidance of adults in the process of (re)construction their occupational and personal life projects.

Analyze, critically, the most relevant theoretical models in career counseling and guidance.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Anthropology and history of careers

Lifelong development within career education

Vocational guidance and career development

Competencies based models of career counseling and development

Training and occupational identities

Theories and models of career development

School-to-work transitionst

Head Lecturer(s)

Joaquim Armando Gomes Alves Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Alcoforado. L. (2001). O Modelo da Competência e os adultos portugueses não qualificados. Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia. Ano 35. nº 1.67-83.

D’Aboville. A., Bernié. M. e Carpentier. P. (2000). Entrependre un bilan de compétences et réussir son projet profissionnel. Paris : Dunod.

Ferreira, J., & Santos, E. (1998). Factores e contextos vocacionais: novas orientações para um novo milénio, Psychologica, 20, 85-91.

Guichard. J. e Huteau. M. (2001). Psychologie de l’Orientation. Paris : Dunod.

Lévy-Leboyer. C. (1993). Le bilan de compétences. Paris: Les Éditions d'Organisation.

Neff, W. (1985). Work and Human Behavior. New York: Aldine.

Santos, E., Ferreira, J., & Chaves, A. (2001). Implications of sociopolitical context for career services delivery, The Career Development Quarterly, 50, 45-55.

Zarifian, P. (2001). Le Modèle de la Compétence. Paris: Editions Liaisons

Vondracek, F. W., Ferreira, J. A., & Santos, E. (2010). Vocational Behavior and Development in Times of Social Change: New