Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Camila da Costa Olmos Bueno.pdf: 785575 bytes, checksum: 122fc62a6b074bd1a24e320061114be3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-12 / The intent of this paper was to study in an explicatory way the phenomenological group potential related to career choices, describing and comprehending teenagers as they present their experiences and feelings when choosing a career and university/college. The practice here presented is specifically structured through a non-directive work of career consulting as it is not a part of a pre-established program. The data meetings were built through the relationship between researcher and participants. The meetings were settled once a week, for ninety minutes each, totalizing five meetings. The group was facilitated by the researcher-psychologist, with another psychologist as co-facilitator. The data acquired in this study for analyzes were the felt sense reports written by the participants and the narratives of experiences written by the researcher in each meeting. In conclusion, the non-directive career consulting is a practice that allows the increase of self-knowledge, extending the potential of personal choices in this matter. / Este trabalho pretendeu fazer um estudo explorat?rio do potencial do grupo fenomenol?gico em rela??o ? escolha profissional, descrevendo e compreendendo como se apresenta a experi?ncia e os sentimentos de adolescentes frente ? etapa de vida em que se espera que escolham uma faculdade. Especificamente a pr?tica aqui apresentada se estrutura atrav?s de um trabalho n?o-diretivo de orienta??o profissional por n?o partir de um programa de pr?-estabelecido. Os encontros foram constru?dos na rela??o entre a pesquisadora e os participantes. Foram realizadas cinco sess?es de noventa minutos com o grupo, uma vez por semana. O grupo foi facilitado pela psic?loga-pesquisadora, auxiliada por outra psic?loga. Os registros para a an?lise foram as Vers?es de Sentido escritas pelas integrantes do grupo e os relatos das ocorr?ncias de cada encontro escritos pela pesquisadora. Concluise que o processo de orienta??o profissional n?o- diretivo ? uma pr?tica que permite a amplia??o do autoconhecimento, aumentando o potencial de escolhas pessoais.

The thesis aims at improving the process of choosing a university by designing an experimental educational course composed of activities focused on self-knowledge and working with information. The theoretical part includes an overview of the existing research about higher education school choice. To create suitable activities, it was necessary to know the importance of choice factors, prospective students' needs and the facts about current sources of information. The thesis also presents the current state of career consulting and courses focused on a similar subject. The empirical part describes the content of the online educational workshop and its implementation including students' evaluation. The verification of the course's benefits was secured by interviews with the students and by evaluation of their learning outcomes from the activities. Furthermore, the thesis contains a description of the research limits caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and a recommendation for future improvements and methodical use. Key words: Higher education choice, career consulting, prospective student, decision-making, designing methodology

The aim of the thesis is to present the roles of the pedagogical consultant at primary school. The theoretical part is focused on specification of the consultant´s duties and powers according to the specialized literature. Furthermore, it concerns the specification of requirements, which the teacher should meet in order to be a pedagogical consultant. Next topic is the cooperation with the legal representatives of pupils and with organizations dealing with consulting. The practical part follows up six pedagogical consultants at primary schools in České Budějovice and Vysočina. The research consists of the dialogues with them and it studies their job duties, the most common topics and difficulties they are faced to.