Students'' Self-exploration for Career Development in the 12-year Compulsory Education: A Study on a Career Guidance Curriculum Module in Middle School

• Main Authors: Shan-Yi Chen, 陳珊怡
• Other Authors: 張月霞
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46733977203775579324

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 課程與教學研究所碩士在職專班 === 104 === This study aims to explore middle school students’ self-exploration process and experience for career development in a career guidance course. In responding to the 12-year compulsory education system, a curriculum module, My Life Steering Wheel, which combines the mandatary “Career Counseling Manual for Middle School Students” was designed for the career guidance course. There are two purposes for this study: (1) to develop the self-exploration for career development curriculum module, which combines “Career Counseling Manual for Middle School Students;” (2) proposing how to apply “Career Counseling Manual for Middle School Students” on the course for the reference of practical work in the field of career development guidance. 90 students of 9th-grade, including 53 boys and 37 girls, in a municipal junior high school in Taipei participated in this study. A qualitative research method is utilized. With the analysis of documents from the gathered data, students’ experiences and process of self-exploration of career development are understood and suggestions are made for practical work in the field of career development guidance. The research findings are as follows: 1. The “My Life Steering Wheel” career guidance curriculum module performed the catalytic effect of students’ self-exploration and helped to implement the goal of filling-in the “Career Counseling Manual for Middle School Students”. 2. A learning sheet of open-ended questions helped students to explore their career development diversely and let the exploration be part of their personal lives which deepened the promotion of the work of career guidance effectively. 3. Apply the concepts of career profiles, combine the design of textbooks, expand the perspectives of career guidance, and execute the spirit of adaptive guidance. 4. This study responds to the theory of career guidance and gives suggestions for following researches of sustainable development of making career-choice process of junior high school students in our country for the reference of practical work in the field of career development guidance.