DISCOURSE AS A FORM OF MULTICULTURALISM IN LITERATURE AND COMMUNICATION SECTION: PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES Arhipelag XXI Press, Tîrgu Mureș, 2015, ISBN: 978-606-8624-21-1 215 PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS IN EDUCATIONAL SCIENCIES Anca Luștrea Assist. Prof., PhD, West University of Timișoara Abstract:Academic activities in the university training are mainly focused on the development and acquisition of skills in the chosen profession. Personal development is a process of training and lifelong learning, where people evaluate their skills and qualities, its objects and personal purposes, in order to exploit their potential at the optimal level. The personal development integrates the professional development because employment is a major component of the life of any of us. This study aims to assess the skills of planning the personal and professional development of future teachers by establishing career objectives, facilitating the identification of resources, obstacles and set up a plan of action to achieve the objectives. The proposed activities were conducted on a group of 60 students of the West University of Timisoara, Department of Educational Sciences, specializing in becoming teachers. The results show that students mainly fix career goals and have the ability to foresee the necessary resources and to action plan the professional development. Keywords: educational career, professional planning, personal development, career plan 1. Introduction Academic learning activities in higher education context are mainly focused on professional training, the universities are education institutions in which the main objective is to form competent professionals. Berdibayeva, Kalmatayeva, Tulebayeva analyzed the quality of the educational process of future teachers from the perspective of success: ―Quality of educational process in many respects defines success of a person in the future professional work and in his interaction with other people. In connection with this to quality of a higher education are imposed as well new requirements, among which requirements not only to professional, but as well to personal
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DISCOURSE AS A FORM OF MULTICULTURALISM IN LITERATURE AND COMMUNICATION
SECTION: PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES Arhipelag XXI Press, Tîrgu Mureș, 2015, ISBN: 978-606-8624-21-1
215
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
STUDENTS IN EDUCATIONAL SCIENCIES
Anca Luștrea
Assist. Prof., PhD, West University of Timișoara
Abstract:Academic activities in the university training are mainly focused on the development and
acquisition of skills in the chosen profession. Personal development is a process of training and lifelong
learning, where people evaluate their skills and qualities, its objects and personal purposes, in order to
exploit their potential at the optimal level. The personal development integrates the professional
development because employment is a major component of the life of any of us. This study aims to assess
the skills of planning the personal and professional development of future teachers by establishing career
objectives, facilitating the identification of resources, obstacles and set up a plan of action to achieve the
objectives. The proposed activities were conducted on a group of 60 students of the West University of
Timisoara, Department of Educational Sciences, specializing in becoming teachers. The results show that
students mainly fix career goals and have the ability to foresee the necessary resources and to action plan
the professional development.
Keywords: educational career, professional planning, personal development, career plan
1. Introduction
Academic learning activities in higher education context are mainly focused on
professional training, the universities are education institutions in which the main objective is to
form competent professionals.
Berdibayeva, Kalmatayeva, Tulebayeva analyzed the quality of the educational process
of future teachers from the perspective of success: ―Quality of educational process in many
respects defines success of a person in the future professional work and in his interaction with
other people. In connection with this to quality of a higher education are imposed as well new
requirements, among which requirements not only to professional, but as well to personal
DISCOURSE AS A FORM OF MULTICULTURALISM IN LITERATURE AND COMMUNICATION
SECTION: PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES Arhipelag XXI Press, Tîrgu Mureș, 2015, ISBN: 978-606-8624-21-1
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formation and to development of a student – a future teacher.‖ (Berdibayeva, Kalmatayeva,
Tulebayeva, 2012, p. 1174)
Personal and professional development are concepts analyzed in multiple studies in
various professional domains, educational, economic, clinical, organizational. All perspectives
focuses on the relation between them, and are seen as a continuum in the context of educational
training.
―Personal and professional development is a process of recursive integration involving
an openness to experience, responsibility towards clients and towards themselves as well as
critical analysis of personal life experience. It means knowing yourself and understanding how
your experience shapes your subsequent encounters with the world. Professional development
involves self-development. Personal and professional development is not a one-off event or
activity. As the experience cycle implies, personal and professional development is continuous
and ongoing (Cross & Papadoupoulos, 2001)‖.(Nastasa, Cazan, 2012, p.781)
"The career plan is just the result of self-assessment process of individuals, determination
of career goals and conditions for their achievement"(Kachanakova, 2003, apud. Chlebikova et
al, 2015 p.250).
―The professional development training has two types of objectives, personal
optimization and professional empowerment which determine gaining, training and improving
certain professional skills.‖ (Nastasa, Cazan, 2012, p.782)
Teachers personal and professional development ―aims to provide for teachers authentic
learning experiences in the sense that it builts on existing knowledge and encourages them to
reflect on and to regulate their own learning in a context that stimulates the collaborative and
ethical attitudes. As well, TPPD can be understood as a process of empowerment. The process of
empowerment means the transfer from a state of helplessness to a state where there is greater
control of life, fate and environment (Shor, I., Freire, P., 1990). This process involves changes in
three dimensions: people's feelings and abilities; the life of the collective to which they belong;
and professional actions that intervene in the situation.‖ (Potolea, Toma, 2014, p.116)
This research was conducted based on the work done with the students in the POSDRU
project, POSDRU/161/2.1/G/141573, Incepe o cariera de success (Begin a successful career).
Lookinginto the project purposes, we can say that itaims to improve theprofessional skills
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offuture graduatesso that theyhavepractical knowledge, tools andskills neededforoptimal
integrationinto the labor market.
The members of the target and research grouparestudents, so theirmain purpose oftheir
activity is professional development, during which they acquiredtheoretical and practical
knowledgenecessary to conduct thecareerthey chose(Mathias andJackson, 1994). Personal
development isa process oftraining andlifelonglearning, where peopleevaluate theirskills
andqualities, itsobjectsandpersonalpurposes, in order to exploit their optimalpotential.