Project-research activities in modern vocational guidance

   This article presents the results of a survey conducted among 10th and 11th graders of Almaty schools, which allowed to determine the leading factors of professional self-determination of school leavers and substantiate the approaches to career guidance suggested by the author. On the one hand, the modern approaches to career guidance should be based on the project-research activities of schoolchildren, in the form of career guidance projects. On the other hand, it is necessary to integrate the activities of guidance counselors and IT-specialists, which allows developing effective tools to raise the awareness of schoolchildren about the world of professions and specialties. Such approaches correspond to modern challenges: universal digitalization, increasing pace of life, globalization, generational and intergenerational interactions, etc.

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