Counselling and Guidance in Adult Education

1. Theoretical and conceptual foundations for understanding contemporary life courses and transitions of adults and the associated increased need for adult education and career guidance and counselling;

2. Conceptual and systemic positioning of adult education guidance and counselling within the adult education system, the welfare state, and the labor market: the importance of integration for social cohesion and understanding integration policies and practices and related socio-political approaches to counselling.

3. Theoretical foundations, goals, purposes and functions of adult education guidance and counselling;

4. Legal and systemic regulation of adult education guidance and counselling as a public service and related career counselling for various target groups of adults at life and work transitions::
- Informational and educational counselling services;
- Institutions, network;
- Law and administrative regulation;
- Financing;
- Staff and their education and training;
- Infrastructure.

5. Conceptual and theoretical foundations for adult education guidance and counselling with different target groups of adults, such as: adults in different stages of life, the unemployed, members of ethnic minorities, migrants, people with special needs, people with insufficient basic education or education for work, and others.

6. Paradigms, methods and techniques of counselling work:
- narrative and diagnostic paradigm;;
- instruments and techniques: biographical interview, dialogue, questionnaires, tests, observation techniques;
- Informational techniques;
- Phases of counselling;
- Approaches to educational counselling;
- Methods of self-direction;
- Alternative counselling methods;
- Individual and group counselling;
-Outreach.

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