| Abstract [eng] |
Today's society reposes a great trust in education. It offloads all problems of children education on educators, what should not be so. The educators are not able to educate each child comprehensively, in this case, also to educate for their vocational activities. Parents, society and the state should associate with the educators in the education, although for this day, it is very difficult to implement that. In career education, the parents have expectations as well as their children themselves and often try to implement them. Based on the studies of S. Kregždė (1988), L. Jovaiša (1999), we may conclude that Lithuania has developed a theoretical foundation, which makes it possible to develop further the methods of career choice and career education. The subject of the research is the career education expectations of parents growing children of 5-6 years old. The aim of the research is to examine the expectations of parents growing children of 5-6 years in their career education. Methodology of the research: The research has been based on the self-concept theories of career development of L. S. Gottfredson and D. E. Super and the concept of modern career (Lego career) of D. H. Pink. Methods of the research. 1. Theoretical: analysis of scientific literature. 2. Empirical: a questionnaire survey. 3. Statistical data analysis (the primary research data have been processed by means of SPSS and Excel computer programs) Scope and organization of the research: 210 parents growing children of 5-6 years old of Šiauliai and Mažeikiai districts participated in the research. Obtained results. The research has justified the hypothesis raised at the beginning of the research stating that presumably the expectations of parents of 5-6 year old children are not realistic, because the parents give too little time for their children's career education and there is a potential of a trend in the future that children can make decisions concerning their career without advising with the parents or hearing of the parents’ opinion on one or another intended decision. According to the parents' believes, they themselves are doing the greatest influence on the child's career choice. Therefore the parents are also the most responsible for the assistance for the child in selection of the career. The research has showed that the parents have a wide variety of opportunities to prepare their children for career, however doing so from the first class is too early. |
