ANA MARIA AURELIA PETRESCU, LAURA MONICA GORGHIU, GABRIEL GORGHIU
In the contemporary school, claimed itself as a stronger one and assumed as connected to the actual social realities in a great measure, the students’ counseling process represent an important issue. In this sense, a particular component of the process is represented by the professional counseling or career counseling. Practically, it includes a set of activities designed and implemented in order to facilitate the choice of a profession, by raising the students’ awareness on their competitiveness, objectified level of knowledge, interests, attitudes and professional skills, but also on their realistic reporting related to their future professions, labor market requirements and specific professional standards in the selected field. In this sense, the teachers should be concerned to identify and cultivate the students’ interests for a particular professional field and present them in a realistic manner, the characteristics of the professions or careers which are subsumed to a specific area. The paper tried to identify the ways in which the Science teachers (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) are able to cultivate the students’ interest for a research career, especially dedicated to the scientific area. In this respect, it was designed and monitored a Case Study, involving secondary school students as main actors, beneficiaries in fact of the activities proposed in the frame of the FP7 European project called IRRESISTIBLE. The study had the main objective to train the Science teachers with the view to promote formal, informal and non-formal learning activities, considering the introduction of Responsible Research and Innovation dimensions in those specific contexts. The obtained results let us to consider that a proper design and implementation of modern teaching approaches and interactive processes may guide the students on choosing a career in science research.
school counseling, professional counseling, Responsible Research and Innovation, IRRESISTIBLE project
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