The role of career guidance and counselling on the career choice and career decision making of immigrant students in Finnish upper secondary schools.
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2024Guidance and counselling in secondary schools plays a major role in the students’ career choices. In Finland, career education and career guidance are a required components and included in the curriculum of upper secondary schools. This means that the students are eligible for individual guidance and group counselling (Skovhus &Thomsen, 2020,
p.253). Thus, this research sets out to study the guidance counselling experiences of immigrant students in upper Secondary schools. My purpose is to investigate the role of
guidance counselling in the career decision making of immigrant students. This study adopts the phenomenographic research method which includes an investigation of the role of guidance and counselling in career choices of immigrant students in upper secondary schools in Finland and bringing out similarities and differences from the cases studied.
My study found out from the five participants that guidance and counselling are a vital part of education at the level of upper secondary schools. This practice is very much
appreciated especially by immigrant students who began their studies in different countries before immigrating to Finland. Some of them see it as a novelty but appreciating
the practice of guidance and counselling as it instils in them the consciousness of making guided choices about their future careers. The practical conclusion is that the practice of guidance counselling should be reinforced especially for students just arriving to Finland from diverse educational backgrounds.
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Ohjaus ja neuvonta toisen asteen oppilaitoksissa on merkittävässä asemassa oppilaiden uravalinnoissa. Suomessa urakasvatus ja uraohjaus ovat pakollinen osa lukion opetussuunnitelmaa ja sisältyvät siihen. Tämä tarkoittaa, että opiskelijoille oikeutettuja yksilölliseen ohjaukseen ja ryhmäneuvontaan (Skovhus &Thomsen, 2020, s. 253). Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on siis tutkia maahanmuuttajaopiskelijoiden ohjauskokemuksia lukiossa. Tarkoitukseni on tutkia ohjauksen merkitystä maahanmuuttajaopiskelijoiden urapäätöksen tekemisessä. Tässä tutkimuksessa sovelletaan fenomenografista tutkimusmenetelmää, joka sisältää tutkimus ohjauksen ja neuvonnan roolista maahanmuuttajataustaisten oppilaiden uravalinnoissa. opiskelijoiden roolista suomalaisissa lukioissa ja tuo esiin yhtäläisyyksiä ja eroja tutkituista tapauksista. Tutkimuksessani selvisi viideltä osallistujalta, että ohjaus ja neuvonta ovat elintärkeitä. osa koulutusta lukiotasolla. Tämä käytäntö on hyvin arvostavat erityisesti maahanmuuttajaopiskelijat, jotka ovat aloittaneet opintonsa erilaisissa maissa ennen Suomeen muuttoa.
Osa heistä pitää sitä uutuutena, mutta arvostaa ohjaus- ja neuvontakäytäntöä, koska se juurruttaa heihin tietoisuutta siitä, että he voivat tehdä ohjattuja valintoja tulevasta urastaan. Käytännön johtopäätös on, että ohjaus- ja neuvontakäytäntöä tulisi vahvistaa. erityisesti Suomeen juuri saapuville opiskelijoille, joilla on erilaiset koulutustaustat.
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