Šiaučiūnienė S. Vocational Consulting and Guidance in Contemporary Vocational Training Context: Master’s Paper in Andragogic/ research mentor prof. habil. dr. M. Barkauskaitė; Vilnius Pedagogical University, Faculty of Pedagogy-Psychology, Department of Educology. – Vilnius, 2005. – 96 p. The subject of this Master’s Paper in Andragogic is talking-point. As Lithuania is integrating into the European social and economical space, vocational consulting had become an underlying field which helps people to realize vocational perfection’s solutions. This Paper was aiming to study the evolution of vocational training system in the last ten years establishing the importance of vocational consulting and guidance for the planning of professional career. The object of research was pedagogical process in vocational training. The goals of this Paper were to: 1. Analyze the variety of theories on vocational guidance in sight of pedagogical psychology. 2. Establish the requirements for the vocational guidance and consulting. 3. Evaluate Lithuanian reforming vocational training system and its alterations in the dimension of vocational consulting and career planning. 4. Study the impact of vocational teachers on the further planning process of professional career. 5. Explore relations between choice of profession and vocational consulting in the conditions of contemporary labour market’s demands. It was hypothesized: analyze of regional state demonstrates that it is possible to bargain for... [to full text]