Rodzice w roli doradców edukacyjno-zawodowych
Parents in the role of educational and vocational counsellors

Summary/Abstract: Aim: Transformations of the education system and constant changes occurring on the labour market cause young people to face huge problems that result from the necessity to make choices related to their own educational and professional future. When preparing for making decisions, the young personsshould be able to use the support of specialists – career advisers or other people prepared to help in this area. However, the advisory assistance system does not always provide such opportunities. And often, young people themselves are not ready to use such help. Parents often act as advisers helping children in making decisions, although this is not an easy task for them. The aim of the undertaken research was to get to know the opinions of young people preparing to enter adulthood, about their parents as educational and vocational counsellors. Methods: The study used the diagnostic survey method. 184 first-year students of full-time studies studying social sciences in Lublin took part in it. They used the author’s questionnaire and semantic differential technique (SD). Results: As a result of the conducted analyses, it was found that the vast majority of respondents talked to their parents about their professional future. Students did not always consider such conversations to be helpful in making educational and vocational choices. In the opinion of the respondents, the parents played a rather significant role in the decisions they made. Students rated their mothers rather than their fathers much more highly as counsellors. Conclusions: Young people entering adulthood perceive their parents as a potential source of support in educational and vocational choices. It is important that adults do not exert pressure on their children, but also that they do not leave them alone. The role of adults is a rational accompaniment of young people in the situation of making choices. And parents are often confused and uncertain in the face of the changing worldand the need for their children to make educational and career decisions. One should consider how to strengthen parents’ competences as educational and career counsellors, so that what is naturally happening in the family environment, i.e. an unprofessional counselling process, makes it more effective.

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